I was checking up on the TIGER/Line import to OpenStreetMaps earlier today and I was pleased to see that Kansas is already partially processed! I had emailed Dave the other day and he had queued Kansas up, but I was pleasantly suprised to see it partially processed already. Douglas County is already completely imported and Tiles@Home is currently rendering it up. Parts of Lawrence have already been rendered and cam be seen using the osmarender layer. Here’s 23rd and Iowa:
Andrew Turner had turned me on to OpenStreetMap over beers at Free State and at GIS Day @ KU even though I’ve been reading about it for some time now. So far it seems like an amazing community and I’ve been enjoying digging in to the API and XML format and various open source tools like osmarender, JSOM, and OpenLayers.
After getting psyched up at GIS Day I’ve been playing with some other geo tools, but more on that later.
Sonnenkollektor oder auch Solarkollektor ist eine Vorrichtung zur Sammlung der im Sonnenlicht enthaltenen Energie. Traditionell steht die Bezeichnung für einen thermischen Solarkollektor, der mit der „eingefangenen“ Sonnenenergie ein Übertragungsmedium (Heizwasser) aufheizt, wobei nahezu das gesamte Strahlungsspektrum des Sonnenlichtes in thermischen Solaranlagen mit relativ hohem Wirkungsgrad ausgenutzt wird. Vorrichtungen zur Gewinnung von elektrischer Energie in Photovoltaikanlagen werden dagegen als Solarmodule bezeichnet.
Solar water heater or solar hot water is water heated by the use of solar energy. Solar heating systems are generally composed of solar thermal collectors, a water storage tank or another point of usage, interconnecting pipes and a fluid system to move the heat from the collector to the tank.