Tag: maps
Web Cartography
I've been meaning to read this for years. I finally picked up a copy for a decent price last year, and read it as a refresher before embarking on some map creation. It seems a bit strange, reading a technology-related book from 2014 in 2026, but Ian Muehlenhaus did a good job of keeping most...
Collaborative mapping
A couple of fun collaborative mapping experiments on the Internet. Who says that it's all just political misinformation out there?
Wrong Merger, Wrong Direction
How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.
Megalithic Portal
The extremely competent autocomplete machine made me a map of all of the best Rocks in the area. Remind me never to take the extremely competent autocomplete machine for granted again.
Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History
Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar
Your Position, Triangulated
The evolution of the global positioning system, the greatest non-internet idea to come out of the Space Race, and why the military initially hobbled it.
Maps for public transport users
Even if modern trains are getting more and more friendly to passengers, many of them are still terribly lacking if we consider this aspect, at least in Italy. As I’m writing this post I’m travelling t...