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Downloading Waypoints and Tracks With Garmin Geko 201/301 on Mac OS X
I forgot how to do this and it took me way too long to figure it out again, so here are notes for myself and anyone else who has these GPS units and a Mac.
Posting Map Locations to a Plone Web Site
If you use the Maps add-on software in Plone, you may wish to use a Python script to post locations from a list of latitude and longitude and other data for the locations. The script described here does this for locations of birding spots and hiking trails in southeast Texas. The script was used on the Golden Triangle Audubon Society web site.
Tag Cloud Images
This Python program extends the tag cloud idea to image generation, doing a little filtering on text to remove stop words and common words first. The program uses the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to generate the image. It doesn't do colors yet, but that will be easy to add. This blog post starts development of a proper software program, called TagCloudImage. You follow may development in the software directory.
My First Blog Post is Lame!
Instead of a proper first entry, the kick-off to my blog is a description of a Python program that scrambles the text of an ill-fated first blog post, along with the scrambled text.
