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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

The happenstance art of maps

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I showed recently  how CLIWOC weather data from ships captains logs dating 1662 to 1885 totalled almost 1/2M points. It started with a 1/4M ...
Friday, 15 August 2014

Dynamic maps final (for now)

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[ Update1 : longhand version posted on my map catalog blog Update 2 : companion Slideshare  delves into technical issues] This is the end...
Saturday, 9 August 2014

Lessons from 'static to dynamic maps'

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Last month related the stumbling blocks in posting too much data on arcgis.com - time animation pushed the limits of stock web service even...
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...