Orkanen Katrina

29.08.2005

Orkanen Katrina ramte USA og gjorde især skade på byen New Orleans.

Også de omkringliggende områder blev ramt, som f.eks. byen Mobile i staten Alabama.


HURRICANE KATRINA


Water covers Royal Street in downtown Mobile, Ala., as Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Sunday, August 29, 2005. (photo and caption: au_Tiger01 @ flickr.com)

Jordskælv i Sichuan

12.05.2008

Jordskælvet i Sichuan provinsen kostede næsten 70.000 mennesker livet og 11 millioner kinesere deres hjem.





Collapsed buildings after the 12 May 2008 earthquake in Hanwang, Sichuan, China (photo and caption: Remko Tanis @ flickr.com)

The text bubble is often not the best way to show of information in Google Maps. This is a custom layout which uses the user events of Google Maps the show the relevant information. Very buggy and only a crude sketch for now.

By: Martin Ove

Google Maps is very widely used, and with good reason. It’s very easy to create maps, and you can customize the information shown in the text bubbles by embedding images and so on.

One thing I hate, though, is getting pushed around a map, which is to small to display all the information, that the publisher wants to show. Here’s one example, and it’s even a mild one from the danish tv-station, TV2: Verdens dyreste naturkatastrofer(Worlds most expensive natural disasters)


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If you have no idea on how to start scraping the web with Python, then read on. The first small step is simpler than I thought it would be.

By: Martin Ove

This post will teach you how to fetch the HTML of a website using Python in windows. This is as far as I have gotten at this time, and even though it isn’t really useful yet, I guess it’s the first step towards webscraping with Python.

First of all you need to get Python on your computer. Continue reading »


Click the buttons to highlight parts of the code.

By:Martin Ove

[Update 22.10.2010: Id-number is no longer used by Facebook. It has been replaced by url. Read more here]

The code behind the Facebook Like Box is easy to modify manually without having to go back the Facebook site.

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