MapBox builds tools for publishing fast and beautiful interactive maps for web and mobile devices.

Our customizable worldwide steet-level map MapBox Streets, our high-performance cloud publishing platform and our open source map design studio TileMill make it easy for anyone to create beautiful custom maps.

High Road is a framework for normalizing the rendering of highways from OSM data, a critical piece of every OSM-based road map we’ve ever designed at Stamen. Deciding exactly which kinds of roads appear at each zoom level can really be done just once, and ideally shouldn’t be part of a lengthy database query in your stylesheet. In Cascadenik and regular Mapnik’s XML-based layer definitions, long queries balloon the size of a style until it’s impossible to scan quickly. In Carto’s JSON-based layer definitions the multiline-formatting of a complex query is completely out of the question. Further, each system has its own preferred way of helping you handle road casings.

We’re proud to give you a sneak peak of Carto, one of the components of TileMill, our upcoming full-featured map design studio that lets you rapidly design completely custom maps. Carto is a CSS-like map styling language based on less.js. This gets us all the syntactic goodies such as nested styles and named variables.

Web Maps Studio is a suite of tools that gives web developers everything they need to create customized, interactive map based web apps. Full integration with Style Editor, Data Market place and CloudMade’s other geo services means that developing feature-rich web app has never been easier.

TileMill is an application for making beautiful maps. Whether you're a journalist, web designer, researcher, or seasoned cartographer, TileMill is the design studio you need to create compelling, interactive maps.

Mapstraction is a programming library that provides a common interface for numerous javascript mapping libraries to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their web applications once, and then easily switch the mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.

Users can switch maps as desired based on personal taste and quality of maps in their local area. Various tools built on top of Mapstraction allow users to easily integrate maps into their own sites, and configure them with different controls, styles, and provider.

Wax is your gateway into putting maps on the web. It makes it easier to use APIs like Modest Maps and Leaflet, and documents, from the very start, the basics of web maps.

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).

Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of CloudMade with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 22 KB of gzipped JS code, it still has all the features most developers ever need for online maps, while providing a fast, pleasant user experience.

It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both desktop and mobile platforms like iOS and Android, taking advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 on modern browsers. The focus is on usability, performance, small size, A-grade browser support and an easy-to-use API with convention over configuration. The OOP-based code of the library is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand.

Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality.

We at StreetEasy decided to build our own maps using, among other tools, OpenStreetMap, TileMill, MapBox and Leaflet, instead of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to Google. And yes, the money pushed us into doing it, but we're happier with the result because we now control the contents of our maps. (and now there is a follow up post too https://plus.google.com/118383351194421484817/posts/8x6xSQYypwt )

Our Bespoke Software Deployment Service, BeSDS, is available as a monthly or annual subscription for companies of any size. We believe in reliable service, transparent pricing and valuable relationships; our subscription model lets us deploy new features and upgrade existing services for our customers without burdening them with extra costs or process.

ODK Collect renders forms into a sequence of input prompts that apply form logic, entry constraints, and repeating sub-structures. Users work through the prompts and can save the submission at any point. Finalized submissions can be sent to (and new forms downloaded from) a server. Currently, ODK Collect uses the Android platform, supports a wide variety of prompts (text, number, location, multimedia, barcodes), and works well without network connectivity.

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set of tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to:

• Build a data collection form or survey;
• Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server; and
• Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.

In addition to socio-economic and health surveys with GPS locations and images, ODK is being used to create decision support for clinicians and for building multimedia-rich nature mapping tools. See the list available tools, featured deployments, and implementation companies for more examples of what the ODK community is doing. We welcome and encourage participation from the user community.

I recently got an old iMac G3 and felt the need to replace the crappy existing MacOS 9 system with my favorite system : Linux of course!

After a mandatory RAM upgrade (from stock 64M to 512M), I found that the CD drive is extremely picky/worn-out and wouldn’t boot any burned install CDs…

But that’s not enough to stop me, since those iMac models support booting from the network.

I first tried to netboot Debian Squeeze on it, but there were some issues (yaboot started but couldn’t load the kernel).

After some research, it appears that Ubuntu has an updated netinstall iso which just works!

imac xorg.conf PPC All versions
There is alot of confusion over The graphical display settings on older PPC imac computers.

Here I've tried to put together xorg.conf file s that people claim to work for the differing imac versions. Ymmv. Feed back welcome if you have an imac running GNU/Linux please post it along with your machine model.

Apple systems have always used different key combinations to perform different tasks, just like all computer makers. However, finding those key combinations has always been an arduous task – they don’t come right out and tell you in the manual how to do some of these.

The most comprehensive guide on iMac 3 disassembly - useful to replace the hard disk and install another operating system like GNU/Linux :)