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Archive for May, 2008

The charts which also depict the surface of the ground use a projection, a manner of translating

Friday, May 30th, 2008

The charts which also depict the surface of the ground use a projection, a manner of translating the true three-dimensional surface from the geoid to a two-dimensional image. Perhaps the projection of the most known world-chart is the projection of Mercator, initially conceived like forms nautical diagram.

Global Concepts in Maps (Highlights) - 1947

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Boy Danny just doesn’t “get” why map projections are important for him to understand. Actually, neither do we after watching this film! But after an afternoon visit from the disembodied voice of our narrator, Danny seems to understand that global map projections are relevent to his life. Highly entertaining way of learning the various concepts of global cartography, from “conical projections…

This could include properties such as the language, safety, applicability, the user profile, etc

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

This could include properties such as the language, safety, applicability, the user profile, etc… The facets could also cover the kinds of properties used in the faceted systems of classification (consequently the name); for example, the typical facets in the field of medicine could be category of age of the disease, therapy and.

Fun With Google Maps StreetView

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Nathan from Inside Google looks at Google Maps StreetView, complete with funny and embaressing pictures of random strangers.
For more, visit:
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/06/05/video-blog-google-maps-streetview-finds-controversy/

Late breaking news

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Geologists draw fissure maps to show potential home damage (KTAR 92.3 Phoenix)

MESA, Ariz. (AP) _ There’s no pun intended when state geologist Todd Shipman says the new state-issued earth fissure maps are “breaking new ground.”

Maps available; Treasure Hunt clues begin on Saturday (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil)

Maps for the Celebrate CB Treasure Hunt are now available at Bucky’s Express locations: 16th and Broadway, 35th Street and Broadway and South 24th Street.

Flood maps will be discussed at meeting (Asbury Park Press)

LONG BRANCH: The city’s Office of Emergency Management invites residents to a session dealing with Monmouth County’s predisaster Mitigation Planning Grant and the federal government’s new flood insurance rate maps.

Google Maps GTA’s Liberty City (WebProNews)

The success of a Google Maps design for Rockstar’s blockbuster $500 million title Grand Theft Auto IV has game site IGN begging gamers for patience with their submitted content. read more

New flood maps proposed for Cameron (KPLC Lake Charles)

In Cameron Parish, some residents wonder if only the rich can afford to live there. The concerns stem from FEMA’s proposed new flood maps. Debate over the maps is heating up.

Google Maps Adds Photos, Video and Popular Searches (Search Engine Journal)

Google Maps has added a very Flickrish feature which serves photos and popular searches along wth specific Google Maps local search results. The photos are served by Panaramio (and some by Picasa), a geo targeted photo hosting company Google acquired in May 2007

Major Exhibition of Antiquarian Maps at the Ukranian Museum (Art Daily)

UKRANIA QUAE ET TERRA COSACCORUM CUM VICINIS WALACHIAE, MOLDAVIAE, MINORIS TARTARIAE PROVINCIIS (UKRAINE AND THE LAND OF THE COSSACKS WITH THE NEIGHBORING PROVINCES OF WALLACHIA, MOLDAVIA, AND TATARY MINOR) Johann Baptist Homann/Homanns Heirs, Nuremberg, 1729. 18 3/4 22 5/8 in. (47.5 56.7 cm).

Late breaking news

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Google Maps GTA’s Liberty City (WebProNews)

The success of a Google Maps design for Rockstar’s blockbuster $500 million title Grand Theft Auto IV has game site IGN begging gamers for patience with their submitted content. read more

New flood maps proposed for Cameron (KPLC Lake Charles)

In Cameron Parish, some residents wonder if only the rich can afford to live there. The concerns stem from FEMA’s proposed new flood maps. Debate over the maps is heating up.

Google Maps Adds Photos, Video and Popular Searches (Search Engine Journal)

Google Maps has added a very Flickrish feature which serves photos and popular searches along wth specific Google Maps local search results. The photos are served by Panaramio (and some by Picasa), a geo targeted photo hosting company Google acquired in May 2007

Maps available; Treasure Hunt clues begin on Saturday (Southwest Iowa News)

Maps for the Celebrate CB Treasure Hunt are now available at Bucky’s Express locations: 16th and Broadway, 35th Street and Broadway and South 24th Street.

AmeriCorps MAPS orientation at FLCC-New ark (Courier Gazette)

AmeriCorps Mentoring and Peer Services (MAPS), a volunteer service program, will have orientation sessions at the Wayne County campus of Finger Lakes Community College, 1100 Technology Parkway, Newark.

Google Maps Adds Pictures & Explore Feature (Search Engine Land)

Some users like Mathew Ingram noticed that Google has now added images from Picasa and Panoramio into the bar beside their maps. Click to continue reading…

Google teaches Czechs to play with maps (Prague Daily Monitor)

The Czech Republic has its own Google maps, and the search engine’s rivalry with Seznam is toughening. On Tuesday, Google launched a new service enabling users to search the maps and offering companies to register in a database for free. This is the most important event since the establishment of Google’s branch in the Czech Republic, says Tana le Moigne, head of the Czech branch.

Burma Cyclone maps and satellite images (BBC News)

Maps and satellite images showing the path and devastation wreaked on Burma by Cyclone Nargis.

Citizens give Clarion feedback on draft zoning maps (Ravalli Republic)

Zoning should be relatively simple, and not harm existing land use patterns. That was the chief message that came from more than 80 people at a meeting Wednesday night on the first draft zoning maps produced by Clarion Associates, the planning consultants working for the county.

Late breaking news

Monday, May 5th, 2008

County zoning maps released over weekend (Ravalli Republic)

Citizens up and down the Bitterroot Valley got to see how their land could be zoned as the county unveiled its draft zoning maps this weekend. The first draft is a work in progress. There will be at least two more drafts before the commission adopts the maps.

Input being sought for flood maps (The Daily Iberian)

The development of new Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance rate maps for Iberia Parish is in the very early stages and local residents are encouraged to give input on the matter.

‘Maps and Legends’: Chabon considers his craft (San Francisco Chronicle)

Maps and Legends Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands By Michael Chabon McSweeney’s; 222 pages; $24 Believe it or not, to be young and living in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1988 was something very special. Word was quietly circulating through the city…

It is almost true, but not completely

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

It is almost true, but not completely. Specifically, all the types (standard of matter, types of association, types of role of occurrence, types of facet and types of value of facet) are defined like matters. Moreover, the range is defined in terms of topics which are themselves of the matters.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (TIM FESTIVAL 2006) RIO

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Num fico muito l essas coisas no, mas d pra aproveitar :]
28/10/2006