December 2011
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Mapvelopes →
create your own map envelopes with google maps
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November 2011
Whales.fm →
group whale songs by similarity (from the zooniverse group)
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Collecting Silence →
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Brave Mappers of Amsterdam →
the story of openstreetmap in amsterdam in pretty shapes and colors
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“Coding is the new Latin. We need to give kids a proper understanding of...”
– Alex Hope | BBC News (via courtenaybird)
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“The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend...”
– Paul Graham (via humbledMBA)
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WatchBarclay’s Cycle Hires during a tube strike (Oliver O’Brien)
via Mapping London Life
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Music Ngram Viewer →
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Spatialepidemiology.net →
global genetic epidemiology of pathogenic micro-organisms (mlst maps)
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Public Mapping Project →
The drawing of electoral districts is among the least transparent processes in democratic governance. All too often, redistricting authorities maintain their power by obstructing public participation. The resulting districts embody the goals of politicians to the detriment of the representational interests of communities and the public at large. We seek to change this power balance by making it...
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MapInvasives →
geotracking invasive exotic species
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The Latest on the Great Magnetic Cow Smackdown
That first paper, in 2008, and a follow-up in 2009, which showed that cows didn’t line up when they were near high-voltage powerlines (known to distort magnetic fields), seemed to indicate that they are. But an analysis of Google Earth images by another team finds no such lining up. In a back-and-forth over the last year in scientific journals, the first team reanalyzed the second’s data and said...
