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9 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Lessons from a Cassand... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks as always Joaquin! You and the Datastax team are a big part of why I chose Cassandra, you're the backbone of the community.

12 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Five short links · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Matthieu, that is fascinating stuff, especially the Mount Everest coverage issue with SRTM3. It looks like ASTER would be essential for any kind of open-source Google Earth, I'll include it in my next roundup.

15 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Why we need an open-so... · 0 replies · +1 points

It was failing to locate addresses like "Bennäsvägen 5, 68600 Jakobstad, Finland" that Google could handle, and that data was available for in OpenStreeMap.

15 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Why we need an open-so... · 0 replies · +1 points

There are multiple providers out there, but almost all of them have terms and conditions like Google that prohibit you from general geocoding, if you're not going to be displaying the results on one of their maps.

23 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Free bulk geocoding fo... · 0 replies · +1 points

It should be up and running again now, sorry about that.

24 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Five short links · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, I'll check it out and add it to my next links post.

24 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Green Tea Kit Kats · 0 replies · +1 points

I'll be looking in Japantown here in SF next time I'm up that end, it was quite something. I checked out your blog by the way, loved the writing, and the puppy rescuing!

29 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - Using Hadoop with exte... · 0 replies · +1 points

I don't have any public examples I can point you to unfortunately. One way to approach it is to pass the access keys as part of the input data, or to have a central proxy server that figures out how to allocate user keys to maximize your use of the rate limits.

29 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - My San Francisco food ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I will have to check that out next time I'm in Berkley for the theatre, thanks for the tip!

29 weeks ago @ PeteSearch - http://petewarden.type... · 0 replies · +4 points

That is very interesting, thanks. I'll include that in my next roundup post.

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