Fuzzy Tolerance highlight a web comic from the always geekeriffic xkcd that I couldn’t help but share entitled “What your favourite map projection says about you.”
Image and Data Manager have a story on just how the Bureau of Statistics’ Melbourne Data Processing centre coped with the container loads of census forms that came pouring in, and how the capturing methodology has changed since the 2006 census.
Geospatial World informs us that cartography has finally been recognised as a profession in Nigeria, despite the Nigerian Cartographic Association having existed for 33 years.
Big Think have a great post that talks of a faux Paris, created from wood, as a decoy to early German bombers in WW1. Unfortunately for Paris, the war ended before construction was completed.
AnyGeo has a post that may be of interest to GIS devs that have a need for crowdsourced data: a new Add-In for ArcGIS that brings in reports from an Ushahidi instance, ready for visualisation and analysis.
Google Maps Mania has a post that outlines a new ‘Weasley Clock’ for sale online. For those not up on their Harry Potter mythology, Google Maps Mani offers this explanation “the Weasley family have a clock that instead of telling the time, shows the location of each member of the family… The WhereDial, unlike the Weasley Clock, doesn't use magic but hooks into the full range of location services supported by mapme.at, and works with Foursquare and Google Latitude to show your current location.” Which, I think, is very clever.
The Google Earth Blog has a post that highlights some mysterious structures in the Chinese Kumtag desert. It seems that no one is quite sure exactly what it is, but you can view it on Google Earth.
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