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Tackling OpenStreetMap with R

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · January 6, 2013June 2, 2020

It is highly unlikely that anyone who has been working with geographic data in the last 5 years has not come across the OpenStreetMap project. The project started in 2004 as a crowd sourced solution to create an open free geographic database of the world has now exploded in to a movement in itself with …

Experiments with Google Maps API

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · October 29, 2012June 2, 2020

After spending lot of time with the KML documentation and C, It was time for me to go beyond the associated platform restrictions (C programs are compiled for a single platform) and start doing the computing and displaying maps on the web. This sparked my venture into the Google maps API and JavaScript. The starting point of this entire …

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Programming Part II

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · May 24, 2012June 2, 2020

This is a follow-up to the previous post Programming a new start… After familiarising myself with the old friend – C and completing a simple program, It was time for a bigger, better and more complex stuff. The search was around a problem which involves geo coordinates and their manipulation into producing a visual output. There …

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Programming – A New Start…

Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj · September 30, 2011June 2, 2020

My history with computer programming starts 15 years back with BASIC and ends with C, 10 years back. I learned BASIC as a part curriculum in school and tried to learn C as a extra curricular activity. C was particularly entertaining at that time, I specially remember making a program which draws a circle on …