Category: programming

  • Dynamic Google maps using Python

    Dynamic Google maps using Python

    I originally wrote this code on 2 February 2009, as a quick hack to publish air pollution in Santiago. The air quality stations now present data in a different way, so the mapping doesn’t work, but the general idea is still useful. A barebones version of my Python code to generate the KML file is: […]

  • Back to Python

    I started using Python way back at the end of 1996 or early 1997. I was working in my PhD, for which the first project involved writing some simulations in FORTRAN. Originally I was using FORTRAN90, but then I needed to move my project to a server that had only FORTRAN77, so I was stuck […]