Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Updated Camp Workcoeman Maps

Due to extensive trail work over the past two years, new maps of Camp Workcoeman were needed. Furthermore, the Connecticut statewide spring 2016 orthoimagery was recently released, provide a new data source for updating buildings and land cover. As with … Continue reading

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Soldering OSD3358 System-in-Package

Although the OSD3358 system-in-package, the so-called BeagleBone on a Chip, is a BGA package, it turns out that it’s surprisingly easy to solder. Using a stencil, solder paste, and a hot plate, it ended up being easier to solder than … Continue reading

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Another Method of Digitizing Large Documents

A few years ago, I wrote about a method of using a modified scanner to scan large documents in segments. While this led to high quality results, it is a very slow and tedious process. More recently, I’ve had a … Continue reading

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Automatic Camera Clock Synchronization under Linux

The one feature I really wish my DSLR had was geotagging. Since my camera lacks this feature, I need to record a GPS track with an external device from which positions can be extracted based on timestamps for geotagging. This … Continue reading

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OpenStreetMap Baltimore City Buildings and Addresses Import

Two years ago, I started trying to import building footprints and addresses provided by the City of Baltimore into OpenStreetMap but was held up by red tape and eventually gave up.1 The City provides building footprints and parcel data on … Continue reading

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