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File: November 2011

2011-11-25 :: Thomas // News
Newsbits #10

Poetry MapThat’s quite something! Katharine Whitcomb, Robert Hickey, and Marco Thompson are putting together a anthology/map called: A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology. Make poetry spatial – really neat idea. Alternatives to Google MapsThat’s a bit more for the coders than for direction seekers. Antiona Santiago blogged a nice compilation of [...]

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2011-11-18 :: Thomas // News
Newsbits #9

Apple acquires patent for location-based-servicesThat surely doesn’t sound too good. Apple’s legal department is not known for their delicacy Create Maps for Wikipedia or other PublicationsGIS Lounge has an interesting article about ShareMap.org which gives a brief overview on the topic of creating readable, simple maps for publications. Great service by first glance. Teaching FOSSGISDirectionsMag [...]

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2011-11-16 :: Thomas // Misc
That’s a map?

… says Lumatic. Nope, that are directions. Given that I want to turn right on the red building – a map would help, this is not.

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2011-11-11 :: Thomas // News
Newsbits #8

Some FOSS4G presentations were made available onlineSomething to learn, guarenteed. A Cartography of the AnthropoceneThis is straight amazing! Even though the underlying might not be the most accurate, the visualization is world class. A real pleasure to look at and a sturdy reminder of what how our daily lifes change the planet.

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2011-11-10 :: Thomas // Misc
Digress.it

In order to make my work fully transparent and to some extent open, I intend to upload any text which seems presentable onto another instance of WordPress. This instance will be equipped with the digress.it Plugin. The extension enables WordPress to render a well structured TOC and provides the opportunity to write comments to each [...]

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