Palm board and parchment
A history in cartographic tools
1998
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Separation of Concerns
Working with shaded relief and satellite imagery in Mapbox Studio
I have a minor quibble. [Read More] -
Constellations of Potential
How Google should be thinking about their rumored satellites if they aren’t already (but I bet they are)
About 10PM last night, I saw some interesting news dropped: [Read More] -
Piano/Source
I remember the moment I realized I needed to learn how to play the piano. [Read More] -
Tiled Basemaps Survey 2013 - Results!
The results are in! [Read More] -
Open thresholds
They went too far, clearly.
In publishing the precise locations and names of all the permitted handgun owners in two New York Counties, the New York Journal-News has done a serious disservice to data journalists in particular. More broadly, they may have made things more difficult for the “Open Data” community at large. [Read More] -
Secession & Racism: a Spatial Analysis
Can a state’s tendency toward racism determine it’s willingness to secede from Barack Obama’s America Maybe. There’s the short answer. The longer one follows, and please note the many qualifiers before you fire up the Troll-o-Matic 9000. [Read More] -
After Empire
AUTHOR’S NOTE, 2023: Heaven help those who revisit their decade-old writing. The piece below is over-the-top, post-apocalytic-zeitgeist-driven, and - worst of all - factually incorrect. At the time I was frankly guessing about the history of Mauretania Tingitana, I name-checked the wrong Ptolemey, and I referenced the Ostrogothic sack of... [Read More]