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Sunday, 19 May 2013

A tale of two cities: web maps new and old

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Last I posted on vector online GIS, and that appears to be gaining traction. Mapbox offers through TileMill and OpenStreetMaps editing. Thes...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

Vectors are your friend, Part II (updated)

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[ Update: ESRI blog post here for clear explanation and treatment of same, thanks Eileen Buckley! See also my ArcGIS Online / Amazon Web ...
Monday, 1 April 2013

RSPB2013 bird counts mapped

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Releasing data really works , Continued RSPB 2013 Big Garden Bird Watch released data by county, listing bird counts for each county in o...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Maps are forever (Part II)

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I wrote earlier about a 1610 map from the Harvard University Library of the Cambridge UK region, a snapshot of which I simply edited the te...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Mapping languages on the internet

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[ Update: I noted on many of my Google Fusion Table posts that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer of...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

"Free Google" e-Book review

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JM Internet Group published a guide to "Free SEO, Social Media, and AdWords Resources from Google for Small Business Marketing". I...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Local maps one year on from Kuwait

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Hard to believe it's over a year since I left Kuwait, and I'm back in Cambridge now working west of London - the shortest commute ye...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Google Fusion Tables for new Google Maps?

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[ Update:  I noted on many of my  Google Fusion Table posts  that, while the data are still on Google Drive for you to view, GFT no longer o...
Friday, 28 December 2012

"The shots heard around the world"

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Recent mass shootings in the US and elsewhere affect me in a particular way: My parents grew up in Nazi then Soviet occupied Pest, on the e...
Thursday, 6 December 2012

Maps are forever...

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... or they are Man's best friend. I'm a big fan of the British Library, not only because it's next to Kings Cross station I ali...