Mapping Hacks

I didn’t know that ‘GPS’ actually stands for the Global Panty System. But The kind folks at Forget Me Not Panties have come up with the killer Location Based Service.
Fortunately (or not as is your wont) the ‘contagiousmedia.org’ in the url (well, and other clues, the knowledge of which paint me as a big […]

And now for something completely different. The Degree Confluence Project aims to collect photos and visitor records of visits to every place on the earth’s surface where degrees of latitude and longitude intersect.

Now Geo Project US aims to do the same for intersections of minutes. (Each ‘degree’ of latitude or longitude is divided […]

Mapping Hacks contributor Anselm
points us to a web page describing how a number of role-playing game
enthusiasts have built a system for showing
tactical maps of gameplay on a table top via an overhead projector. Seems
like a pretty nice and inexpensive setup, and makes you wonder if this might
have other - dare I say? - more practical […]