geomantic

This is a good thing for both the standards setting community and the open source community: OGC and OSGeo Sign Memorandum of Understanding | OGC® With respect to goals and objectives, both communities have an obvious  natural affinity. I’m encouraged to see this finally happened.

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From Boston.com, an interesting piece of journalism about the growing ubiquity of maps. The article cites several examples of  the effect of this ubiquity, which can be applied for good (monitoring global climate change) or bad (Mumbai siege). Incidentally, I posted a while back about the cartograms from Mark Newman. Newman quite accurately sums up [...]

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