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Here be dragons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Here be dragons" is a phrase used to denote dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of the medieval practice of putting sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps.
culture  english  map  maps  mapping  cartography  dragons 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
Why iPhoto for iOS shows that Apple is closer to divorcing itself from Google Maps - The Next Web
Actually serving tiles is easy. Making tiles, now that's a whole different story...
map  maps  mapping  gis 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
Axis Maps Store — Home
"Typographic Maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type."
type  typography  map  maps  mapping 
december 2011 by mcroydon
Leaflet - a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade
"Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API."
geo  javascript  map  maps  gis 
september 2011 by mcroydon
Wrap Your SQL Head Around Riak MapReduce
The strangeloop edition of the Riak MapReduce talk.
riak  basho  mapreduce  map  reduce 
september 2011 by mcroydon
OSGeo | FOSSLC
Talks from FOSS4G will show up here eventually. There are already some State of the Map talks from this year online!
map  maps  geography  gis 
september 2011 by mcroydon
Announcing Acetate – better thematic mapping | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
Layering together data sources using Tilestache, Mapnik, OSM, SRTM, PostGIS and a bunch of other stuff.
cartography  design  map  maps  open-source 
january 2011 by mcroydon
featureserver - Revision 629: /trunk/vectorformats
"This is a library for easy serialization and deserialization of geographic features (geometries and properties) into various formats." Some formats are a little more rough than others.
map  maps  python  library  open-source  license:bsd 
january 2011 by mcroydon
s4: distributed stream computing platform
"S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data."
apache  bigdata  cloud  cloudcomputing  cluster  computing  mapreduce  map  java  hadoop  framework  distributed  data  opensource  processing  platform  programming  real-time  streaming  stream  software  scalability  reduce  realtime  streamprocessing  yahoo  tool  s4  streams 
november 2010 by mcroydon
41Latitude - Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3
There are a lot more settling hooks than there used to be.
map  maps  google  style  json 
october 2010 by mcroydon
What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map? - Stack Overflow
The easy answer is obvious but there's a lot of other good info here as well.
map  maps  graph  routing 
october 2010 by mcroydon
MindNode
A mind mapping app for OSX. A bunch of ordered lists fits my brain pretty well though.
app  application  apple  applications  apps  brainstorming  mac  leopard  freeware  gtd  creativity  free  collaboration  macosx  management  map  osx  mind  mapping  productivity  work  visualization  tool  tools  software 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Welcome to Cartography 2.0
"Cartography 2.0 is a free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps."
design  mapping  maps  toread  blog  tutorial  free  gis  visualization  book  geo  books  map  online  web2.0  education  interface  guide  3d  geography  animation  academia  interactive  cartography  articles  academic  webmapping  animated  axismaps  cartographie 
december 2009 by mcroydon
uDig : Home
Handles the job of quickly peeking at shapefiles nicely, with OSX support.
software  linux  maps  database  tools  mapping  mac  opensource  free  visualization  java  gis  geo  map  framework  windows  open  freeware  geography  desktop  postgis  eclipse  client  geospatial  wms  sig  spatial  udig  rcp  swt 
november 2009 by mcroydon
[#SOLR-773] Incorporate Local Lucene/Solr - ASF JIRA
It looks like LocalSolr is tentatively slated to land in Solr 1.5.
gis  search  geo  map  lucene  geography  solr 
august 2009 by mcroydon
Steve: Developing on the Edge - the Yahoo! Hadoop distro
I see Yahoo and Cloudera's distributions of Hadoop a lot like Ububtu vs. Debian where mainline hadooop is Debian stability and these distributions are the Ubuntu compromise for new features.
yahoo  cloudera  hadoop  map  reduce  map-reduce 
june 2009 by mcroydon
Glympse - Share Your Where
Interesting location-sharing infrastructure for Android.
web  technology  flash  tech  map  web2.0  online  3d  companies 
may 2009 by mcroydon
Wikipedia:Blank maps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blank maps for you (and me the next time I'm trying to find them in my del.icio.us links).
design  maps  mapping  library  gis  wikipedia  free  geo  wiki  graphics  map  travel  resources  geography  cartography  svg  vector  useful  resource  illustration  images  png  blank  world  stock  karten  recursos  wikimedia 
february 2009 by mcroydon
National TIGER/Line Shapefiles
Shapefiles for some data finally see the light of day. No, not a joke.
tiger  line  map  maps  shp  shapefile 
april 2008 by mcroydon
MAP OF MIDDLE EARTH
Quite detailed, quite nice.
art  book  books  cool  earth  fiction  graphics  geek  pdf  maps  vector  map 
march 2008 by mcroydon
7000+ Neighborhood Boundary Files in Shapefile Format - Zillow® Blog - Real Estate News and Analysis
"The boundary lines for over 7,000 neighborhoods around the United States covering roughly 150 cities. These neighborhood shapes are now available, zipped up in the Arc Shapefile format, for anyone to download." Yay data!
geowanking  gis  map  maps  mapping 
january 2008 by mcroydon
LJWorld.com / Foreclosures: Sheriff's Sales (2007)
My weekend project thanks to data procured by Christine Metz and Jacob Kaplan-Moss. The interactive map takes a look at sheriffs sales (one type of foreclosure) in Douglas County.
data  map  maps  mapping  interactive  journalism  media  lawrence  kansas  ljworld  database-journalism 
january 2008 by mcroydon
James Duncan Davidson – Making Maps
Going to a lot of trouble, but those are some oh so pretty maps.
map  maps  mapping  illustration  geowanking 
december 2007 by mcroydon
ShapeWiki
An interesting collection of shapes available in several formats. The quality of the various shapes varies dramatically, as you might expect from a wiki.
data  geo  geocoding  geolocation  georss  gis  google  kml  map  mapping  maps  neogeography  source  visualization  web  wiki 
november 2007 by mcroydon
Simplify.py
Another pure python Douglas-Peucker implementation.
maps  mapping  map  cartography  geowanking  algorithm  python 
november 2007 by mcroydon
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