Mapping Hacks

For the last couple of years, Jared has been making an effort to collect and freely redistribute 1:24K DRGs - hand-drawn topographic maps - published by the US Geological Survey. He has finally cracked, bought the complete set from a USGS reseller, and is holding the geodata to ransom until he can recoup what […]

Kiran Jonnalagadda sent out an email about ’super high resolution maps of language
distribution around the world.’
The maps are very cool-check it out! The India PDF map is 30/16.5 MB (site
says 30, download manager 16.5). They’re designed to be printed 36″
or wider. Data table and ArcGIS files also available.
http://www.gmi.org/wlms/users/huffman/
Dr. Huffman has classified the languages of […]

Recently there has been a new level of licensing discussion for open geodata. Daniel Faivre has been socialising the Public Geodata License, a draft of which he worked on years ago and which is being picked up by a group in Canada, in particular. The PGL is very strongly modelled on GPL v2.
Richard Fairhurst wrote […]