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Open Space in Charlottetown
Since receiving an ESRI Shapefile of the Charlottetown zoning map I’ve been experimenting with different ways of looking at and publishing the information in it. Here, for example, is a map showing all...
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Making a Charlottetown Zoning Lookup
Since receiving a copy of the City of Charlottetown Zoning Map in digital form (as an ESRI shapefile), I’ve been thinking of various ways of using the data. An obvious one is to build a tool that...
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The Beauty of the North Shore
I had the pleasure of a cruise up the Southwest River, out New London Bay, and around to the ocean off Cape Tryon Light this afternoon. Wow. I’ve been working with the L.M. Montgomery Land Trust for...
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Making Panoramas with Hugin
I stumbled across Hugin, an open source photo stitching application, after hearing about OpenStreetView in a podcast interview with Steve Coast.I’ve been interested in panoramic photo stitching since...
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My friendly server at Casa Mia Café this afternoon asked me to spread the word about a photography exhibit happening next week at Ampersand. The exhibit is called Qoriwaynacunas (Quechua for “Youth of...
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Unusually Happy Children
There was something about the children pictured in the photo attached to this CBC story about Kindergarten registration that made me think “those don’t look like real Prince Edward Island children.”I’m...
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Reversible Rainnie?
Is it just me, or is the Matthew Rainnie in this small promotional graphic from the front page of the CBC Prince Edward Island website:just a cropped and mirror-imaged version of Matthew from this...
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Comic Oliver
Nokia just released an Instagram-like app for Windows Phone called Creative Studio and I took it for a ride a few nights about down at Youngfolk and the Kettle Black, snapping and transforming a photo...
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You’re soaking in it...
Inspired by Ian’s musing about the difficulty that machines have an automatically identifying photographs of him, I gave the Face.com demo a try with a photo I took of myself, and here’s the result:My...
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Water Tower, Then and Now
Across the road from La papeterie Saint-Armand is Lachine Canal National Historic Site which is filled with helpful signage about the industrial past of the area. Here’s a photo of one of the...
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Our House is on an Album Cover!
There are very few historical photosgraphs of our house at 100 Prince Street in Charlottetown, and those that are tend to be photographs of something else – Trinity Church is just up the street for...
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Six Generations
Oliver, with his father, grandmother, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and great-great-great-grandfather.Family | History | Photographs
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