Building Microservices – Peek

In general I tend to read only one book at a time. I fully understand that when you are in K-12 and later in college, you are obliged to read books for the different simultaneous courses that you are taking. Once people are done with formal training, most of us never read a book again. That is a shame. It seems that the rush in life does not give us time to read. When tired we just sit and want to be entertained by whatever is being showed on TV or at a theater. My wife and I prefer to sit down and chat. When we are not working and are not together, we both read books. About a year ago we stopped watching TV so we returned the cable boxes. Today we only have Internet access. That way, when someone recommends a movie, we are able to get it on-line. All our TV sets at home are equipped with Chromecast which makes it so easy to watch from pictures to movies. Continue reading “Building Microservices – Peek”

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

A few weeks ago I was looking in Amazon for books that dealt with photogrammetry. During my search some associated books showed up. After taking a look at the table of content on two that called my attention, I decided to go with both, not for depth in the subject, but to get a broad look at GIS.

One of the books I selected is titled Geographic Information Systems – An Introduction by Tor Bernhardsen published by Wiley in 2002. In chapter 10 Data Collection II, section 10.3 Photogrammetry Mapping provides a simple and high level description of the basics in the subject. To be honest, you can get a more up to date and extensive description in Wikipedia. Continue reading “Geographic Information Systems (GIS)”