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The Soviets liberated Prague from the NAZI’s in 1945.  And then a monument was set up with the Actual First Tank into Prague.
(except, it was the wrong tank, but that is another
And one day in 1991 people woke to find that David Cerny had painted it pink.  And then […]

In 2006 my daughter Molly and I rode our bikes in Europe, including from Prague to Vienna.  One of the high points was stumbling upon the Vojenske Military museum.  We were riding on our second day out of Praque and started seeing signs for a military museum.  It was 10 km this way, and then […]

I wrote an article as part of a “Neogeography” special feature for Geoconnexions Magazine last spring, and ran way over the word count. The spirit of which is in this paragraph,
A distinction between “professional” and “amateur” is not so important…
As in politics, “the new” and “the old” are marketed at the expense of one another […]

We wrote about Garnix in _Mapping Hacks_. It is a command line tool written by Anton Helm to communicate with Garmin GPS units. It will run under DOS 5.0, various Windows versions, Macintosh, and Linux.
It was the first tool I used to communicate with a GPS.
The new version is here.

Go to phorum board goosh.org is cool! It gives your browser a command line complete with command history, and you get a scrollback.
It supports searching wikipedia and google, including images, video, blogs, etc.
It also has a command line map mode. You can type ‘map ‘ and get a bit larger than thumbnail map. […]

“Open Aerial Map is an open collection of aerial photographs, collected into a single coherent view of the world.”
It is run by our good friend Chris Schmidt, and it rocks.
Chris has posted imagery of Where Camp 2008 taken by Pict Earth. Pict Earth is what happens when RC hobbyists become geowankers, or vice […]

Going through old notes I stumbled on this link to a flash animation of the Middle East, showing the growth and decay of empires over time (link).
“Imperial History of the Middle East: Who has conquered the Middle East over the course of World events. See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds.”
I used to […]

I just got an email from someone wanting to know how to convert from degrees-minutes-seconds to decimal degrees.  There are calculators online to do that, and we wrote about how to do it in Mapping Hacks, but you can also use Google Maps:
Example, enter this as your location:
38 54′ 4.35″ N, 76 42′ 45.22″ W
The […]

WhereCamp2008 rocked my world. Here is a gigapan from the event, and links to more. (this is implemented in an iframe, because I don’t know how to get wordpress to allow an embedded object in a post - email me if you have advice)</p>

I’ve been taking lots of Gigapan images. One of the neat things about Gigapans is that they are using image tiling to let you pan and zoom around in image-space. They are using a modified version of the Flash Earth browser which Paul Neave wrote to access Google Maps tiles.
I wrote up a […]