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Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
we are building a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Allowing anyone to submit crisis information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
JapanFocus
Ming conviction that Taiwan was not part of this domain was rooted in the traditional conception of China as a territory bounded by natural geographic features
The China Beat: G. William Skinner
Pioneering macroregion and core/periphery economic geography
Crime Mapping Analytics « iRevolution
Police track criminal events or ‘incidents’ which are “the basic informational currency of policing—crime prevention cannot take place if there is no knowledge of the location of crime.”
BLDGBLOG: The Akwizgran Discrepancy
the 'Akwizgran Discrepancy', "a forgotten thread of diplomatic folklore."
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - In some ways histories used to be much better written....
Chinese maps are shy and unobtrusive objects, blushing unseen maybe in a Peking palace
Many Eyes
IBM visualization generator
…My heart’s in Accra » Mapping a connected world
How many steamships travelled from New York to Pernambuco versus New York to Liverpool? What connections were vital to international commerce and which existed because ships needed a place to dock and refuel?
…My heart’s in Accra » My talk at Berkman: Mapping a connected world
Mapping flow is a form of surveillance.
…My heart’s in Accra » More map lust: global populations in 1890
tiny European states to manage huge swaths of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, thousands of miles away, tenuously connected by telegraph lines and steamships.
…My heart’s in Accra » Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
mapping the flow of air traffic, ferries across the Channel and the massive grid of telephone lines.
…My heart’s in Accra » Mapping: Infrastructure and flow
It’s a map of flow, not of infrastructure. It reveals infrastructure - the location of airports, the preferred air routes followed - because they appear as bright spots, places where lots of flow originates.
True Marble Imagery - Free Download
Download and use the 250m True Marble global dataset for free!
1901EasternTelegraph.jpg (JPEG Image, 1200x971 pixels)
Global map of Eastern Telegraph Co. network in 1901
Modest Maps
Our intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects.
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