http://mappinghacks.com by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:04:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Wednesday, Shekhar Krishnan and I presented a talk entitled Open Historical Maps: Crowdsourcing, Open Source GIS, and the Research Web to the ABCD GIS working group at Harvard University. Here's the abstract from Shekhar's announcement: mp3 and avi cheap movies cheap mp3 Media Rape Download Music Download Movies Media Slot ... http://mappinghacks.com/2009/04/20/talks-on-the-research-web-and-on-sms-in-the-developing-world/ Download Movies Keef Hartley Band Keel Keelhaul 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2009/02/16/the-pink-tank-2/ 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2009/02/16/the-military-technical-museum-lesany/ 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2009/02/08/the-end-of-everythingism/ I confess to reading the American political blogs as if they were a distributed "Hello" magazine. I enjoyed the coverage of Sarah Palin's benediction by the witch-hunting pastor Thomas Muthee. The Christian Science Monitor reported in 1999 on Muthee's efforts at Targeting cities with "spiritual mapping" "Spiritual Mapping" is the collaborative ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/10/27/thought-for-the-day/ 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/07/10/new-version-of-garnix/ I received an email me asking if there was a way to get a latitude and longitude from a number which his ERP calls a 'Geocode.' Forgive my confusion, since I thought the whole point of 'geocoding' was to get coordinates, or a code of some sort, which would let you ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/07/09/vertex-where-taxation-meets-innovation-and-dies-in-shock/ 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/06/05/googshorg-the-unofficial-google-shell/ "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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/06/03/what-is-2-centimeter-imagery-open-aerial-map-and-calculating-field-of-view/ 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 ... http://mappinghacks.com/2008/06/03/who-has-conquered-the-middle-east/