Let me draw you a map of the world, Curves and shadow for your face, Your eyes set as two continents, Ears drawn with unrivaled grace. (for b.)

MPR had a story a couple of days ago that makes me jump in my seat for joy. One of the world's rarest maps -- a massive print from 1602 showing the world with China as its center -- will soon be on...creation of this map. I recall the biography mentioning that he had collaborated on a map with chinese scholars; Clearly this is the map. I definitely will go and see this map when it moves up here

«ЦНТ» joint-stock company (brand Navitel) invited some journalists to show them that russian company can make its own quality maps. Famous russian bloger Alex Exler reported some facts and impressions...drivers. Considering this, I don't understand why they are trying to hold mapping market for communicators. Is it really that owners of this gadgets just put them on the facia? It a pity, if so..

I was using Google Maps the other day when I noticed something strange. Yawkey Way was mislabeled. It is my understanding (as it was before my time living in Boston) that Jersey Street used to run from... This morning they let me know that I was correct and that the map will be corrected within a month. I'll post again when the fix is made. Now if only Google could go back and correct Tom Yawkey ..

Между прочим, нашёл неплохую статью в Википедии о вычислении расстояния между двумя точками, с заданными координатами http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distance . Из этой статьи выцепил ссылку... Нижний Новгород Есть ещё Geospatial Data Abstraction Library , тоже написанная на C++. Судя по документации, с помощью этой библиотеки можно осуществлять преобразования картографических проекций

...me orient myself, and find new things to explore. But I would hate to try to use such for driving directions. I study pre-1450 maps, in part because I could get access to the volumes of History of Cartography on the subject, and in part because hand-drawn maps fascinate me. The decisions of what to include and exclude, how accurate they are, and what additions are made to fulfill specific purposes...

Saving some information for the next time I do a talk on European Explorers in East Kingdom Lands. I should at least be familiar with these, as I am with L'Anse Aux Meadows (generally accepted as authentic...Massachusetts) , site of the alleged Leif Erickson runestone The Skeleton in Armor (see also Longfellow's eponymous poem) The Westford Knight The Maine Penny (generally accepted as authentic

From Kottke comes a pointer to this set of maps of inter-state migration . The local, anti-California angle: About 140,000 people moved from California to Washington, yes. But about 91,000 moved from...683K residents). Only people moving in offset that huge number. My immediate thought is the people who left Alaska were oil workers rotating in and out of the state -- but that's only speculation

wolftone's all-purpose european city travel checklist: rent a too-heavy bike visit a graveyard scale a cathedral tower All done! Usuallz, I complain about the heavz citibike. But...Named Places Tour. (tomorrow - gruzere+) New German kezboard ranté what do zou mean the < and > characters are shifted versions of the same kez_ How does anzone code HTML with this lazout_

Milky Way Galaxy Map Via many places, including my own blog, a "Transit map" of the Milky Way galaxy done by Samuel Arbesman