Enter the Fifth Dimension; Sentiment Map Rendering

We have been plotting x,y,z and time for a while now. But this is all syntax; Tim Berners-Lee believes that the future of the web is semantics, and I could not agree more. You have a glimpse of it today when you use for example Apple’s Siri. In our GIS space, MetaCarta at one time had a great appliance/service that inferred location from the semantics of a sentence. For example, “Joe ate a Chicago...

DnD File using HTML5 into Flex Web App

So….I always wanted to Drag and Drop an external file into a Flex application running in the browser. Well.. you can use the FileReference API to browse and load a file, but I really wanted to DnD. Unfortunately, this is not allowed due to security constraints of the Flash Player. However, using the latest proposed W3C DnD API and the File API, I should be able to use the last two and the AS3 ExternalInterface...