Thejesh GN Blog

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Geo Mapping in WordPress Blogs

I use maps (gis) for tagging blog posts, adding pictures to posts, mapping my walks or runs, for writing travelogues and general map related experimentation. For a while I have been searching for maps utility to use it on my blog. For a long time its been embedding either Google Maps or Open...

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Gokarna Beach Walk

Gokarna has five known beaches. Gokarna, Kudle, Om, Half Moon and Paradise. First three are well-known and have all kinds of facilities and the last two as of now doesn’t offer much. In a recent trip we stayed at Linger Gokarna which is on the other side (to north) and all the other...

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The Year that was 2013

This is the seventh year of “The Year that was” series. This was the most successful year until now according to me. Here are some of the highlights Life was great. I am married now. Its much better now :) Working with Mavrix has been very fruitful, We released mobile apps this year...

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BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility

Bus stops are very important considering every trip starts and ends at one of them. There are many qualities of bus stop that would affect the quality of commute. One of them is coverage area of the bus stop. The public transit/commute usage directly depends on how near or far the bus stop...

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Now Open PostBox India data is available as GeoJSON

We crossed 100+ postboxes this month. As promised I am releasing the data in an open format that can be used by anybody. I am planning to update data for every 25 new addition of postboxes. Data is available in the form of GeoJSON which I thought is the most user/developer friendly format....

ಕಿಚ್ಚು – Set heaven on fire 28

ಕಿಚ್ಚು – Set heaven on fire

ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆ ಮನೆ ಇರಲುವೆಚ್ಚಕೆ ಹೊನ್ನಿರಲುಇಚ್ಚೆಯನರಿವ ಸತಿಯಿರಲುಸ್ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ಕಿಚ್ಚು ಹಚ್ಚೆಂದ– ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ [Literal translation]Warm house to live inEnough money to spendWife who understands your wishesIf you have the above, then you have all the things required to set heaven on fire– The guy who knows everything I am trying to set heaven on fire, wish me luck...