Technorati Tags: sotm, sotm07 I spend this weekend in Manchester, attending The State of the Map, a conference organised by OpenStreetMap. I wasn't really sure what to expect from this, not really understanding before hand that is was an OSM based event (yes, I should have read the details); that didn't really matter because I learnt a ton about OSM and mapping, made some useful contacts, got some great ideas and had a great time. There were some really interesting and entertaining talks, including one by Phil on vehicle tracking. The whole event has really energised me into learning more about this and doing something to...
Here's one that caught Alex out the other day, although he's still not sure why it started happening. It's something I'd not run into, nor thought about much, but you need to be careful of case sensitivity when using Server.MapPath, as the file/path you pass in is returned as is and not with the casing of the actual file/path. For example, if I have a website at C:\Web\foo, with a subfolder of iMaGes and do Server.MapPath("IMAGES"), what I get back is C:\Web\Foo\IMAGES, not C:\Web\foo\iMaGes. In many ways this makes sense as it returns what you ask for (Windows paths aren't case sensitive,...