Sunday, 27 July 2014

From static to dynamic maps, continued

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Last month I reported on posting on arcgis.com some time-stamped, time-slider or time-aware maps - I showed my WhereIsAndrew map - I also m...
Saturday, 14 June 2014

From static to dynamic maps, my travel so far

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I tell people "I know just enough java to be dangerous", and it has served my well in my prior attempts logged in my old web page ...
Saturday, 10 May 2014

Handy maps

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A 'handy' is what Germans call a mobile or cell phone. I uploaded free ArcGIS for Android on my  smartphone, which now has a decent ...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

... now HOW open is open?

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[ Update:  Part II is on my Medium professional channel 2½ year later: Almost open data ] A lot of (virtual) ink has flowed around opening...
Sunday, 16 March 2014

Releasing data really works, Part VI

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Three months into posting data on my web service - Part V - I created a short list of free data for Great Britain on my Map Catalog called ...
Sunday, 23 February 2014

Global Sailings (1662 - 1856, English, Spanish, Dutch, French) revisited

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[ Update: climate data (wind speed & direction) have now been added in short & long posts ] I originally extracted CLIWOC ( CLI...
Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Maps are forever (Part III)

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My first post on this theme traced beautiful medieval maps from the British library in London to the Harvard Libray online, to land on a...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

Map catalog page 4

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My map catalog also works well to post new projects: added British Geological Survey web mapping services to East Anglia web map, in order t...
Sunday, 26 January 2014

Map catalog continued

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In my ongoing suite of posting webmaps in my new and fresh Mind the Map blog, here is another take on loading global vectore megadatasets b...
Saturday, 18 January 2014

Standards & Metadata, Part VIII

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My previous post on this topic stated how careful documentation and appropriate metadata high-grades any information that is shared online ...