Recently I picked up a GoPro HERO5 Black camera for use in street-level imagery. It’s been a really great platform that has displayed fairly steady GPS acquisition and tracking. (Though I may not necessarily be the person driving when I am capturi...
I can’t count the times that I’ve gotten access to a shared memory server with an out of date version of CentOS and Python 2.7 as the only python installation. Okay, actually, I can and it’s been eight times. The same goes for getting a new laptop...
Prior to moving to California, I used to have a “weather camera” that kept an eye on the current weather in Wisconsin. It was really a pleasant image, whether the ground was covered in snow or lush grass:
Sometimes I get asked how exactly one contributes to OpenStreetMap (OSM). The OSM Wiki page has a good portal with a wide array of information on how to contribute, so this post is going to focus more on how I specifically go about contributing to...
One of the issues that plagues weather data processing–like any other data–is speed…we want our science processed and we want it processed fast!
Well, it took a while, but I finally had some time to create a new website. My plan is to eventually migrate my personal and GitHub websites into one. I’ve used Jekyll for a while with ethan-nelson.me while ethan-nelson.com uses Wordpress. Wordpre...