This post will demonstrate how to draw polygons on Google Maps v3 using geojson-encoded data from GeoDjango. The most common method for displaying polygons on Google Maps seems to be by using KML. Google Maps requires the KML-file to be available on a public website though and that is kind of a bore for debugging. [...]
I really like the way Javascript is moving from being this annoying thing you have to deal with when doing web-development to becoming a proper server-side programming languages with standard libraries and fast VMs. Yesterday I cloned the Narwhal git repo and tried to create my own package with a few simple collection types. Narwhal [...]
Last fall, I wrote a chapter for a book titled “State of the eUnion”. My chapter is called “Democracy 2.0″ and is about how sites like Folkets Ting, OpenCongress and TheyWorkForYou get built and what features should go into them. The other chapters are about the challenges and possibilities of governments and the Internet in [...]
The whole Folkets Ting business has turned out rather well (even though the site is not currently updated — we’re working on it!) and I’ve been invited to speak on a few occations. Some of the talks were recorded, and in the interest of self-agrandissement they are included below in chronological order (except for the [...]
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