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Romanian Postal Codes in OpenStreetMap

Strainu — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:53:01 +0000

After a short discussion on the Romanian OSM mailing list, I decided to write a small Python script to import the postal code data from SIRUTA into OSM, cited as demanded by law 542/2008, art. 32. As cities have multiple postal codes, I had to settle for importing data for villages, hamlets and towns. Still, over 12.000 new entries were added to OpenStreetMap. I will surely be an important resource for people wanting to use coordinates – postal codes association freely.

For people wanting to peek at the code, you can find it here. It uses the OsmApi library and a stripped version of the dbf fron INSSE (converted to CSV), containing the following fields: siruta_code, village_name, postcode, postocde_source.

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Pagerename

Strainu — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:55:41 +0000

Pagerename.py is a small Python script that integrates in the pywikipedia framework. For those of you who don’t know, it’s the main tool used by robots on Wikipedia. I wrote the script a good while ago, when I needed to quickly rename several hundred pages on the Romanian Wikipedia. The script was designed to make the same modification on all the titles from a series of pages. You can remove parts of the title or add a new text at the beginning and/or and of the title.

In the mean time the guys at pywikipedia wrote movepages.py, a somewhat similar script. Nevertheless, in September I decided to propose my script for inclusion in pywikipedia. Unfortunately, it didn’t make it, however it was included in the project’s encyclopedia, at http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Python:Pagerename.py. I’d love to hear your opinion about the script. Please leave any comments you might have below.

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Call by sharing

Strainu — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:23:26 +0000

In a previous article, I was ~~saying~~ trying to convince you that Java passes its parameters by value. Although this is the most widely-spread name for the action of passing references to objects, some experts have a different opinion. They name this parameter-passing technique “call by object” or “call by sharing“.

The only programming language that openly uses that name is CLU, however one must note that languages like LISP, Scheme, Python or Java use the same technique. You can find a short study on the subject in the python mailing list archives.

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Pagerename.py

Strainu — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:39:15 +0000

Pagerename.py is a script for the pywikipedia framework, used to rename a series of pages on Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites. The script is designed to make the same modification on all the titles it reads from the input file. You can remove parts of the title or add a new text at the beginning and/or and of the title. You can find it’s source code below or at this site.

The software is distributed under CC-GNU GPL license.

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Computer Systems’ Structure homeworks

Strainu — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:50:31 +0000

Computer Systems’ Structure homeworks from Automatics and Computer Science Faculty, 4th year, prof. Emil Sluşanschi. The archive contains a homework made in C. Themes: threads, semaphores, queues, locks, fat-tree inter-connection structures, file-sharing, network programming in python. The C homework is a simulation using the Blitzen simulator (not included).

The software is distributed under CC-GNU GPL license.

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