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We learned this week from ESPN NFC West writer Mike Sando that Pete Carroll the Head coach of the Seattle Seahawks is the 2nd highest paid head coach in the NFL.
The Forbes' list of 10 highest-paid coaches came out this week.
Sando reports coaches presumably do not make available their contracts or tax returns, so these listings qualify as unofficial.Bill Belichick - Patriots - $7.5M
Pete Carroll - Seahawks - $7.0M
Jeff Fisher - Rams - $7.0M
Mike Shanahan - Redskins - $7.0M
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Some futher rendering on the thinker. Not set style.
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Thanks alot, i still need to remodel the worrior's hair/tentacles the just don't look right.
Here is some futher work and remodel of the Seeker..... in armour.
Hey apple... since your stickin with the Sculptris tiangle mesh, might I suggest Meshmixer .. for your armor and clothing ... the two applications import/export very well from one to the other, and you can use the Smooth Boundaries along with Extract and Extrude to make clothing from the original mesh that fits perfectly .... I started using Wings3d and others to retopo, because i wanted quad meshes I could animate ... but Here's an old thread I started where I had many of the same Ideas ..... Meshmixer works great as a companion app for Sculptris!
I'll have a look at them.... currently for full body sculptures I'm useing DAZ studio for a detailed bases to work of, however the dynamic tesilation "turns off" when I import the models.
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Add quite a few more options ... and the extracts are seperate objects, making hard line material changes in Paint mode real easy .. It's not as easy to sculpt in, you'll want to do most of that in Sculptris, but don't forget some of the other functions .... there's the Meshmixer part of Meshmixer, and it can also "heel" holes ..
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This is the kind of stunt designed simply to drum up media hits, and I'll oblige. An e-mail from Catholics for an End to the War in Iraq just arrived in my inbox stating that the group will mark tomorrow, which is Ash Wednesday, by delivering ashes to the White House.
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Fr. Joe Nangle OFM, a Catholic priest serving at Our Lady Queen of Peace in Arlington, will be present to bless the ashes. âThe use of ashes is an ancient and sacred sign that we are ultimately accountable to a higher power. If anyone needs this pastoral advice, it is President Bush.,â said Fr. Nangle.
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February 5, 2008 | 8:55 am
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That's a scary question being asked by the cover of this week's Economist: "Has Iran won?"
Won what? you might ask, that is, if the cover didn't have a big radioactive Acme bomb in the place of the "o" in "won."
WHO would have thought that a friendless theocracy with a Holocaust-denying president, which hangs teenagers in public and stones women to death, could run diplomatic circles around America and its European allies? But Iran is doing just that. And it is doing so largely because of an extraordinary own goal by America's spies, the team behind the duff intelligence that brought you the Iraq war.
It doesn't take a fevered brain to assume that if Iran's ayatollahs get their hands on the bomb, the world could be in for some nasty surprises. Iran's claim that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful is widely disbelieved. That is why Russia and China joined America, Britain, France and Germany at the UN Security Council to try to stop Iran enriching uranium. Until two months ago they seemed ready to support a third and tougher sanctions resolution against Iran. But then America's spies spoke out, and since then five painstaking years of diplomacy have abruptly unravelled (see article).
The intelligence debacle over Iraq has made spies anxious about how their findings are used. That may be why they and the White House felt it right to admit, in a National Intelligence Estimate in December, that they now think Iran halted clandestine work on nuclear warheads five years ago. As it happens, this belief is not yet shared by Israel or some of America's European allies, who see the same data. But no matter: the headline was enough to pull the rug from under the diplomacy. In Berlin last month, the Russians and Chinese made it clear that if there is a third resolution, it will be a mild slap on the wrist, not another turn of the economic screw.
The important, often over-looked, element of the NIE was not that Iran had halted its nuclear-weapons program but that it ever had one to begin with. The report also did not say Iran had stopped its nuclear-enrichment program. That effort, which Iran's dictator purports to be a peaceful endeavor for alternative energy, is alive and well.
My colleague, Karmel Melamed, has some disturbing photos on his blog of gay teens being hanged and women being stoned. This is justice?
Seymour Hersh, who has a new article about the Israeli attack on Syria, wrote a number of stories in the past two years that looked at the Bush administration's plans to bomb Iran, but in October reported that the administration had shifted targets there.
February 4, 2008 | 10:53 pm
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The answer to many of the questions associated with Israel's summer air raid of a Syrian military facility remain unknown but to a few high-level Israeli and likely American officials, according to Seymour Hersh, who was on "Talk of the Nation" tonight discussing the "act of war," which he wrote about for this week's New Yorker.
At a news conference on September 20th, President George W. Bush was asked about the incident four times but said, âIâm not going to comment on the matter.â The lack of official statements became part of the story. âThe silence from all parties has been deafening,â David Ignatius wrote in the Washington Post, âbut the message to Iranââwhich the Administration had long suspected of pursuing a nuclear weaponââis clear: America and Israel can identify nuclear targets and penetrate air defenses to destroy them.â
It was evident that officials in Israel and the United States, although unwilling to be quoted, were eager for the news media to write about the bombing. Early on, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces with close contacts in Israeli intelligence approached me, with a version of the standard story, including colorful but, as it turned out, unconfirmable details: Israeli intelligence tracking the ship from the moment it left a North Korean port; Syrian soldiers wearing protective gear as they off-loaded the cargo; Israeli intelligence monitoring trucks from the docks to the target site. On October 3rd, the London Spectator, citing much of the same information, published an overheated account of the September 6th raid, claiming that it âmay have saved the world from a devastating threat,â and that âa very senior British ministerial sourceâ had warned, âIf people had known how close we came to World War Three that day thereâd have been mass panic.â
However, in three months of reporting for this article, I was repeatedly told by current and former intelligence, diplomatic, and congressional officials that they were not aware of any solid evidence of ongoing nuclear-weapons programs in Syria. It is possible that Israel conveyed intelligence directly to senior members of the Bush Administration, without it being vetted by intelligence agencies. (This process, known as âstovepiping,â overwhelmed U.S. intelligence before the war in Iraq.) But Mohamed ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations group responsible for monitoring compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, said, âOur experts who have carefully analyzed the satellite imagery say it is unlikely that this building was a nuclear facility.â
February 4, 2008 | 4:09 pm
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I'm not one who sees anti-Semitism around every corner or believes that all major media is anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. But The Jawa Report posted a powerful audio slideshow, "The Path to the Final Solution," to YouTube today that focuses on the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, and left me feeling more than a little queasy.
The video makes little effort to distinguish between peaceful Muslims and jihadi fanatics. And some of the facts can be argued and disputed, like when the narrator refers to all of the Muslim world as the Arab world and includes Turks and Persians and Southeast Asians. But what can't be ignored is the sheer vitriol exhibited in the photos, mostly of neo-Nazis and Muslim groups bent on the destruction of Israel, and cartoons portraying Jews to be a dirty and filthy and cunning people.
The video moves too quickly to fully ingest the offensiveness of many of the images, so you'll want to keep your cursor over the pause button. You'll certainly recognize some of the pictures, like those of Jimmy Carter and Mel Gibson. Others are more obscure, like the swastikas sprayed onto a bathroom stall at UCLA and the cartoon of Hitler smirking in bed with an emaciated and mortified Anne Frank, saying, "Write this one in your diary Anne!" All are appalling.
Here is part of The Jawa Report's post explaining the video:
As a member of the Global Zionist Conspiracy⢠(although somewhat behind in my union dues), I was already aware that Jew hatred had been with us for some time, and that it still lingered in the shadows. What I was unprepared for was it's seemingly sudden reemergence into the light, and welcome acceptance into mainstream political and social discourse.
During the intervening months, this new awareness caused me some consternation… and I found myself going in search of this filth.
You'd be amazed how easily one can locate vast resources of images, quotes and comments, videos, blogs and a variety of other propaganda blaming the Jews for everything up to, and including, the attacks of 9/11, AIDS, every global economic tremor and even weather patterns in the Middle East!
You'd be amazed, that is, if you had not already encountered this in your travels - and if you've been on the Internet for more than 15 minutes, you have.
February 4, 2008 | 11:27 am
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It isn't easy being godless online.
For the third time in three years, what may be the largest group of organized atheists in the world is struggling to stay on MySpace, said a Cleveland State University assistant professor who founded the site for nonbelievers.
MySpace deleted the 35,000-member "Atheist and Agnostic Group" on Jan. 1, a little more than a month after hackers broke in and renamed the group's site "Jesus Is Love," Bryan Pesta said Wednesday.
MySpace has ignored repeated requests to restore the group's site, including an online petition with more than 500 signatures, said Pesta, who was the group's moderator.
"These actions send a clear message to the 30 million godless people in America that we are not welcome on MySpace," Pesta said.A MySpace spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.
That's from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In other MySpace news, I recently created a (still primitive) page for The God Blog. God fearing and godless welcome. Come friend me.
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February 4, 2008 | 10:24 am
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I've mentioned that Muslims felt left out of the campaign Godtalk, Jews were uncomfortable with Mike Huckabee's fundamentalism and atheists just want to be heard. Reuters joined the discussion with this story yesterday:
Estimates of the numbers of non-Christians in America vary. Some put the percentage of atheists, agnostics or "unaffiliated" at between 15 and 18 percent of the population of 300 million.
Jews, Muslims, Hindus and people of other religions make up fewer than 10 percent of the population.
Standing in a Hindu temple in a Dallas suburb before statues of his religion's deities, Tejas Karve says he understands why the candidates stress their commitment to Christianity. But it does leave him with a sense of exclusion.
"I think it's geared more towards Christians because that's the majority. It's incomprehensible for them (Americans) to have a candidate who's not Christian," the 26-year-old pilot, who immigrated from India eight years ago, told Reuters.
"I do believe they leave (non-Christians) out to a point."
Political professions of faith leave some unmoved.
"Why is that relevant? Who cares? The great issue is where do we stand on Medicare and Social Security and immigration ... Why inject religiosity into that?" asked Paul Kurtz, chairman of the Council for Secular Humanism.
"Are we (secular humanists and atheists) marginalized? No. Are we turned off? Yes!"
Atheists and agnostics have long been targets of the religious right who see moral decay in secularization.
Some critics say those without a religion were singled out in the speech by Romney in which he sought to ease concerns among Republican evangelicals about his Mormon faith.
He said "freedom requires religion"—implying that it could not exist without it—and criticized those who "seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God ... It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America—the religion of secularism. They are wrong."
A Pew Research Center survey last year found that 63 percent of those polled said they would be "less likely" to support a presidential candidate who did not believe in God.
February 4, 2008 | 9:14 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
German students will soon be given a Holocaust textbook published in a most unusual format—that of a comic book.
The comic books trace the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany's descent into barbarism through the eyes of a Jewish family.
In full-colour panels, the family members use the internet to trace their lost relatives, victims of the Holocaust. Pictorial flashbacks graphically show Hitler and his henchmen as well as the horrors of his war and the gas chambers.
The Search, as the comic book is entitled, is the first attempt to use a graphic novel as an aid in teaching history in Germany. The comics are being tested in public schools in Berlin and in North Rhine-Westphalia for the spring 2008 semester.
Pupils in years Seven through Ten will be given the graphic novel as teaching aids, and it was unveiled on the 75th anniversary of Hitler becoming chancellor on January 31, 1933.
Recent surveys show that Germans under age 20 have an appalling lack of knowledge about 20th Century history.
While all of them know and recognise Hitler, only one in three was aware of what the word "Holocaust" means.
And fewer than one in ten could identify Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels or other Nazi henchmen.
Terms such as the Sudeten Crisis or the Siege of Stalingrad were unknown to all but a handful of pupils.
Almost none could give the date of the start of World War II, and fewer than 20 per cent could name the four Allied Powers which occupied post-war Germany.
So most educators have welcomed the move.
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Plot- Jace has recently broken up with Clary and is miserable and upset and ends up just leaving the institute and OC finds him and wonders what is bothering him.
Later In the middle of a demon fight Jace collapses ill and OC tries to get him away from the battle seeing what happened.
Jace was in shock and upset , he had just recently broken up with Clary. He knew it was partly his fault, but it still hurt and he never thought that she would leave him. He was quite literally heart broken and didn't want to talk to Alec or any of the other Shadow Hunters, so he just left the institute, he wasn't going to come back unless somebody came and found him, or until he had calmed down, But for now he was quite upset.
He could hear some of them calling his name, but he just ran and had tears pouring down his face. He was miserable and didn't know if he could be happy again. Clary had always made him happy, but now he just felt like his heart had been torn out. He decided maybe that he would be best to not worry about relationships for awhile. He just felt like he would likely mess up any attempt to be happy again, and he was hurting too much.
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The group of escapees comprising 571 males, 597 females and 940 children reached troops of 58 Division in general area Pudukkuduirippu during day hours yesterday.
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Police find driver near Parham Road suffering from gunshot wound
Henrico Police are attempting to learn what happened early this morning to the driver of a pickup truck in the Near West End.
At about 6:40 a.m., an officer noticed a Ford pickup truck driving erratically south on Parham Road near Mayland Drive. The vehicle continued south on Parham for another two-tenths of a mile before reaching Lawndell Road, at which time the officer activated his emergency equipment and the pickup truck turned west onto Lawndell, where it stopped. The officer approached the vehicle and found the driver unresponsive. Upon opening the driver's side door, the officer noticed that the driver, a 27-year-old male, appeared to be suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The officer had not seen or heard a gunshot, but earlier in the morning, just before 6 a.m., officers had responded to the 4700 block of Penick Road after reports of a domestic dispute between a father and his 27-year-old son. The son reportedly had brandished a firearm at his father and then stolen his father's pickup truck – the same truck involved in the incident at Lawndell Road. The 27-year-old is currently in serious condition at VCU Medical Center. Police continue to investigate the sequence of events. |
VBS seeks blood donations
Citizen Staff Reports 12/16/2013
Virginia Blood Services (VBS), the sole supplier of blood for more than 20 hospitals throughout the state of Virginia, is in need of blood donors to help replenish the local blood supply over the holidays.
A decline in blood donations is typical during the winter months as people become busy with holiday activities and travel. Patient needs remain steady, however, making it important for people to visit a VBS donor site or mobile drive to give blood. > Read more.
Varina's Big Toy parade to help usher in holiday season
In Varina, one of the most anticipated events of the season is approaching. The 19th Annual Big Toy Parade will return on Dec 14, offering a "homey," small-town feel that helps elicit holiday spirit among participants and spectators alike.
The parade, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the Battlefield Ruritans and Henrico County Parks and Recreation and is held in conjunction with the James River Boat Parade. It is led by a grand marshal along Old Osborne Turnpike and ends at the Osborne Boat Landing, where hundreds of community members gather to await nightfall and the arrival of lighted boats, concluding a festive holiday celebration. > Read more.
Strikers, Kickers form partnership
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
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Henrico students star in 'Nutcracker'
A number of Henrico students are performing in the Richmond Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, which runs through Dec. 23. Pictured above, left to right are: back row – Elizabeth Sjovald (Mother Ginger), Deema Meguid, Maya Link (Mogi top) and Sophie Rounds (Mother Ginger) and front row – Sarah Echols (Chinese) and Carter Echols (Chinese). > Read more.
Weekend Top 10
Eastern Henrico's annual "Holiday on Parade" event is back tomorrow. Family-friendly activities will take place at various locations in the east end. The festivities will culminate with the 21st annual James River Parade of Lights. Also, several churches throughout the county are hosting holiday celebrations including West End Assembly of God, St. Andrew's United Methodist Church and The Gayton Kirk Presbyterian Church. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
A taste trip through Latin America
Estilo charms, with a stylish twist, in Henrico's Near West End
If you're looking for something a little different from the standard, ho-hum restaurant experience, look no further than The Village shopping center. Among the recent success stories to put down roots in The Village is Estilo, created by the owners of the gastropub Toast (featured in a Feb. 21 review in the Citizen), only a few steps away.
Estilo – which translates to style – offers a taste of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, among other countries, and a menu that rotates regularly through the rest of Central and South America. > Read more.
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I'm looking for some software to lay out some electrical schematics in that's compatible with automotive 12 volt technologies. I'm hoping to find something that's a visio-like software where I can drop bosch relays, switches of all varieties, resistors, lamps, motors, the whole gamut of components you'd see in an automotive environment. I can hand-draw the schematics, but I'm hoping to be able to make nice professional looking ones that I can share with the GMTC community. Anyone know of anything that will fit the bill?
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06-26-2012, 08:58 PM #2If you are familiar with visio maybe there are some templates you could add in?
06-26-2012, 09:32 PM #3A quick preliminary search didn't yield any stencils that had what I was looking for. For example, I want to be able to place a standard Bosch relay and have the pins laid out in the proper design and labeled.
06-27-2012, 01:23 PM #4Sounds like auto-cad to me...
06-28-2012, 12:40 PM #5I'll see if I can get a hold of AutoCad Electrical. It looks like they have a trial version available. I've found a couple other programs like Smart Draw. It seems to do a decent job but it costs far too much and is to broad of a program to do the job well.
07-07-2012, 07:08 PM #6There used to be a proram called OrCAD that was really great for schematic drawings. Don't know if they are still around, though.
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Web address | openstreetmap.org |
Slogan | The Free Wiki World Map |
Commercial? | No |
Type of site | Collaborative mapping |
Registration | Required for contributors |
Available language(s) | Over 50 site translations and unlimited map languages[1] |
Users | 1,411,467[2] |
Content license | ODbL |
Owner | OpenStreetMap Community. Project support by OpenStreetMap Foundation.[3] |
Created by | Steve Coast |
Launched | 1 July 2004 |
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices.[4]
Created by Steve Coast in the UK in 2004, it was inspired by the success of Wikipedia and preponderance of proprietary map data in the UK and elsewhere.[5] Since then, it has grown to over 1 million registered users,[6] who can collect data using GPS devices, aerial photography, and other free sources. These crowdsourced data are then made available under the Open Database License. The site is supported by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in England.
Rather than the map itself, the data generated by the OpenStreetMap project are considered its primary output. These data are then available for use in both traditional applications, like their usage by Craigslist, Geocaching, MapQuest Open, JMP statistical software, and Foursquare to replace Google Maps, and more unusual roles, like replacing default data included with GPS receivers.[7] These data have been favourably compared with proprietary datasources,[8] though data quality varies worldwide.[9][10]
Steve Coast founded the project in 2004, initially focusing on mapping the United Kingdom. In the UK and elsewhere, government-run and tax-funded projects like the Ordnance Survey created massive datasets but failed to freely and widely distribute them. In April 2006, the OpenStreetMap Foundation was established to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and provide geospatial data for anybody to use and share. In December 2006, Yahoo confirmed that OpenStreetMap could use its aerial photography as a backdrop for map production.[11]
In April 2007, Automotive Navigation Data (AND) donated a complete road data set for the Netherlands and trunk road data for India and China to the project[12] and by July 2007, when the first OSM international The State of the Map conference was held, there were 9,000 registered users. Sponsors of the event included Google, Yahoo and Multimap. In October 2007, OpenStreetMap completed the import of a US Census TIGER road dataset.[13] In December 2007, Oxford University became the first major organisation to use OpenStreetMap data on their main website.[14]
Ways to import and export data have continued to grow – by 2008, the project developed tools to export OpenStreetMap data to power portable GPS units, replacing their existing proprietary and out-of-date maps.[15] In February 2008, a series of workshops were held in India.[16] In March, two founders announced that they have received venture capital funding of 2.4M euros for CloudMade, a commercial company that uses OpenStreetMap data.[17]
In 2012, the launch of pricing for Google Maps led several prominent websites to switch from their service to OpenStreetMap and other competitors.[18] Chief amongst these were Foursquare, Craigslist who adopted OpenStreetMap, and Apple, Inc, which ended a contract with Google and launched a self-built mapping platform which uses TomTom and OpenStreetMap data.[19]
The project has a geographically diverse user-base, due to emphasis of local knowledge and ground truth in the process of data collection. Many early contributors are cyclists who survey with and for bicycles, charting cycleroutes and navigable trails.[20] Others are GIS professionals who contribute data with Esri tools.[21]
By August 2008, shortly after the second The State of the Map conference was held, there were over 50,000 registered contributors; by March 2009, there were 100,000 and by the end of 2009 the figure was nearly 200,000. In April 2012, OpenStreetMap cleared 600,000 registered contributors.[2] On January 6, 2013, OpenStreetMap reached 1 million registered users, a minority of whom contribute the majority of content.[22] Around 30% of users have contributed at least one point to the OpenStreetMap database.[23]
State Of The Map[edit]
Since 2007, the OSM community has held an annual, international conference, State Of The Map. Venues have been:
- 2007Manchester, England – [24]
- 2008Limerick, Ireland – [25]
- 2009Amsterdam, Netherlands – [26]
- 2010Girona, Spain – [27]
- 2011Denver, USA – [28]
- 2012Tokyo, Japan – [29]
- 2013Birmingham, England – [30]
Map production[edit]
The initial map data were originally collected from scratch by volunteers performing systematic ground surveys using a handheld GPS unit and a notebook, digital camera, or a voice recorder. The data were then entered into the OpenStreetMap database.
More recently, the availability of aerial photography and other data sources from commercial and government sources has greatly increased the speed of this work and has allowed land-use data to be collected more accurately by the process of digitization. When especially large datasets become available, a technical team manages the conversion and import of the data.
Ground surveys are performed by a mapper, on foot, bicycle, or in a car, motorcycle or boat. Map data are usually collected using a GPS unit, although this is not strictly necessary if an area has already been traced from satellite imagery.
Once the data have been collected, they are entered into the database by uploading them on the project's website. At that point, no information about the kind of uploaded track is available – it could be e.g., a motorway, a footpath, or a river. Thus, in a second step, editing takes place using one of several purpose-built map editors (e.g., JOSM). This is usually done by the same mapper, sometimes by other contributors registered at OpenStreetMap.
As collecting and uploading data is separated from editing objects, contribution to the project is possible also without using a GPS unit. In particular, placing and editing objects such as schools, hospitals, taxi ranks, bus stops, pubs, etc. is done based on editors' local knowledge.
Some committed contributors adopt the task of mapping whole towns and cities, or organizing mapping parties to gather the support of others to complete a map area. A large number of less active users contribute corrections and small additions to the map.
Government data[edit]
Some government agencies have released official data on appropriate licenses. Much of these data have come from the United States, where works of the federal government are placed under public domain. See Copyright status of work by the U.S. government for more details.
In the United States, OSM uses Landsat 7 satellite imagery, Prototype Global Shorelines Prototype Global Shoreline from NOAA, and TIGER from the Census. In the UK, some Ordnance Survey OpenData are imported, while Canada's NRCan's CanVec vector data and GeoBase provides landcover and streets.
Out-of-copyright maps can be good source of information about features that do not change frequently. Copyright periods vary, but in the UK Crown copyright expires after 50 years and hence Ordnance Survey maps until the 1960s can legally be used. A complete set of UK 1 inch/mile maps from the late 1940s and early 1950s has been collected, scanned, and is available online as a resource for contributors.
Commercial data[edit]
OpenStreetMap data are assisted by companies that choose to freely license either actual street data or satellite imagery sources from which OSM contributors can trace roads and features.
Notably, Automotive Navigation Data provided a complete road data set for Netherlands and details of trunk roads in China and India. In December 2006, Yahoo! confirmed that OpenStreetMap was able to make use of their vertical aerial imagery and this photography was available within the editing software as an overlay. Contributors could create their vector based maps as a derived work, released with a free and open license,[11] until the shutdown of the Yahoo! Maps API on 13 September 2011.[31] In November 2010, Microsoft announced that the OpenStreetMap community could use Bing vertical aerial imagery as a backdrop in its editors.[32] For a period from 2009 to 2011, NearMap Pty Ltd made their high-resolution PhotoMaps (currently of major Australian cities, plus some rural Australian areas) available for deriving OpenStreetMap data under a CC-BY-SA licence.[33]
OpenStreetMap data were originally published under a Creative Commons open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data. In September 2012, the license was changed to the Open Database License (ODbL) from Open Data Commons (ODC) in order to more specifically define its bearing on data rather than representation.[34]
As part of this relicensing process, some of the map data were removed from the public distribution. This included all data contributed by members that did not agree to the new licensing terms, as well as all subsequent edits to those affected objects. It also included any data contributed based on input data that were not compatible with the new terms. Estimates suggested that over 97% of data would be retained globally, however certain regions would be affected more than others, such as in Australia where 24 to 84% of objects would be retained (depending on the type of object).[35] Ultimately, more than 99% of the data were retained, with Australia and Poland being the countries most severely affected by the change.[36]
All data added to the project need to have a license compatible with the Open Database License. This can include out-of-copyright information, public domain or other licenses. Contributors agree to a set of terms which require compatibility with the current license. This may involve examining licenses for government data to establish whether they are compatible.
Software used in the production and presentation of OpenStreetMap data is available from many different projects and each may have their own licencing. The application — what users access to edit maps and view changelogs, is powered by Ruby on Rails. The application also uses PostgreSQL for storage of user data and edit metadata. The default map is rendered by Mapnik, stored in PostGIS, and powered by an Apache module called mod_tile. Certain parts of the software, such as the map editor Potlatch2, have been made available as public domain.[37]
While OpenStreetMap aims to be a central data source, its map rendering and aesthetics are meant to be only one of many options, some which highlight different elements of the map or emphasize design and performance. The OpenStreetMap project keeps a list of OSM-based services which serves as a complete reference.
Commercial services[edit]
A variety of popular services incorporate some sort of geolocation or map-based component. Notable services using OSM for this include:
Flickr uses OpenStreetMap data for various cities around the world, including Baghdad, Beijing, Kabul, Santiago, Sydney and Tokyo.[38][39][40] In 2012, the maps switched to use Nokia data primarily, with OSM being used in areas where the commercial provider lacked performance.[41] MapQuest announced a service based on OpenStreetMap in 2010, which eventually became MapQuest Open.[42]
On 29 February 2012, Foursquare started using OpenStreetMap via MapBox's rendering and infrastructure.[43] Craigslist also switched to OpenStreetMap in 2012, rendering their own tiles based on the data.[44]
Wikipedia uses OpenStreetMap data to render custom maps used by the articles. Many languages are included in the WIWOSM project (Wikipedia Where in OSM) which aims to show OSM objects on a slippy map, directly visible on the article page.[45]
Pictometry uses OpenStreetMap as the default map in their web based products for displaying their patented 3D aerial photography.
Moovit uses maps based on OpenStreetMap in their free mobile application for public transit navigation.[46]
Apple Inc unexpectedly created an OpenStreetMap-based map for iPhoto for iOS on 7 March 2012 , and launched the maps without properly citing the data source – though this was corrected in 1.0.1. OpenStreetMap is one of the many cited sources for Apple's custom maps in iOS 6, though the majority of map data is provided by TomTom.
In 2009, Hasbro, the games company behind the property trading board game Monopoly, launched Monopoly City Streets, a massively multiplayer online game which allowed players to "buy" streets all over the world. The game used map tiles from Google Maps and the Google Maps API to display the game board, but the underlying street data were obtained from OpenStreetMap.[47] The online game was meant to be a limited time offering, closing at the end of January 2010.[48]
Humanitarian aid[edit]
During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, OpenStreetMap and Crisis Commons volunteers[49] used available satellite imagery[50] to map the roads, buildings and refugee camps of Port-au-Prince in just two days, building "the most complete digital map of Haiti's roads".[51]
The resulting data and maps have been used by several organisations providing relief aid, such as the World Bank,[52] the European Commission Joint Research Centre,[53] the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,[54] UNOSAT[54] and others.[55]
NGOs like the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and others have worked with donors like USAID to map other parts of Haiti and parts of many other countries, both to create map data for places that formerly were blank, and to engage and build capacity of local people.[56]
Along with post-disaster work, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has worked to build better risk models for Uganda and elsewhere, in partnership with the Red Cross, World Bank,[57] and other humanitarian groups.[58]
Software for viewing maps[edit]
OpenStreetMap maintains lists of online and offline routing engines available (OSRM—the Open Source Routing Machine—is a particularly notable example of a routing engine);[60] since the data are open, open-source projects and companies are free to build routing applications. Since OSM consists of open data that are freely available, it is a popular datasource for researchers in the area of routing.
Software for editing maps[edit]
Editing of maps can be done using the default web browser editor called iD, an HTML5 application using d3.js and written by MapBox.[61] The earlier Flash-based application Potlatch is retained for intermediate-level users. JOSM and Merkaartor are more powerful desktop editing applications that are better suited for advanced users.
Data format[edit]
OpenStreetMap uses a topological data structure, with four core elements (also known as data primitives):
- Nodes are points with a geographic position, stored as coordinates (pairs of a latitude and a longitude) according to WGS 84.[62] Outside of their usage in ways, they are used to represent map features without a size, such as points of interest or mountain peaks.
- Ways are ordered lists of nodes, representing a polyline, or possibly a polygon if they form a closed loop. They are used both for representing linear features such as streets and rivers, and areas, like forests, parks, parking areas and lakes.
- Relations are ordered lists of nodes, ways and relations (together called "members"), where each member can optionally have a "role" (a string). Relations are used for representing the relationship of existing nodes and ways. Examples include turn restrictions on roads, routes that span several existing ways (for instance, a long-distance motorway), and areas with holes.
- Tags are key-value pairs (both arbitrary strings). They are used to store metadata about the map objects (such as their type, their name and their physical properties). Tags are not free-standing, but are always attached to an object: to a node, a way, a relation, or to a member of a relation. A recommended ontology of map features (the meaning of tags) is maintained on a wiki.
The LinkedGeoData[63] data set is a work of the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) research group at the University of Leipzig, a group mostly known for DBpedia, that uses the GeoSPARQL and well-known text (WKT) RDF vocabularies to represent OpenStreetMap data.
See also[edit]
- Collaborative mapping
- Comparison of web map services
- Counter-mapping
- Google Map Maker
- Neogeography
- OpenLayers
- OpenWeatherMap
- OsmAnd
- translatewiki.net, where it's translated
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- WikiMapia
- ^ "Translating OpenStreetMap". Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ a b "Stats". OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "FAQ". OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- ^ Anderson, Mark (18 October 2006). "Global Positioning Tech Inspires Do-It-Yourself Mapping Project". National Geographic News. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ Frederick Ramm,Jochen Topf, Steve Chilton (2011). OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World. UIT Cambridge.
- ^ OpenStreetMap has slightly over a million registered users; however, only around 30% of these have made a contribution to the map itself, see Neis, Pascal,; Zipf, Alexander, (2012), "Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project — The Case of OpenStreetMap", ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 1 (2): 146–165, doi:10.3390/ijgi1020146
- ^ "OSM Map on Garmin". OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
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- Ramm, Frederik; Topf, Jochen; Chilton, Steve (2010). OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World. UIT Cambridge. p. 386. ISBN 978-1-906860-11-0.
- OpenStreetMap in the media (2005 to present)
- OpenStreetMap in scientific publications
External links[edit]
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- Official website
- OpenStreetMap Foundation
- OpenStreetMap on Twitter
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School of Applied Studies' 30th Anniversary celebration: Friday, Oct. 25, 2013.
Learn more about the School of Applied Studies' celebrationThe Lincoln Lecture, "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass," will be presented by John Stauffer. Stauffer is a professor of English and of African and African American Studies and chair of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University.
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The music portion of the contest is now open. Please submit your composition by April 1, 2014.
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in conversation with Minikhan: Mothra vs. Godzilla
Minikhan: People know that we know this isn't an Indian movie, right?
Beth: I hope so. I think they even know that we watch non-Indian things fairly often, though mostly of the tv variety, and we generally don't write about them here.
Minikhan: I haven't seen a lot of films from the non-subcontinent parts of Asia.
Beth: Nor have I. My dad may have taken me to re-runs of monster movies at Saturday matinees when I was young—this is the same man who took me to Monty Python and the Holy Grail when I was only eight—but I don't remember. The only Japanese movies I do remember with certainty are Funky Forest and Big Man Japan...which means that Mothra vs. Godzilla felt incredibly comprehensible.
Minikhan: It's pretty linear, isn't it? An unusual but nature-based event occurs. Humans respond foolishly. Monsters representing nature's innate goodness and humankind's technological hubris show up and fight it out. Humans are saved by the nature/mother figure. The circle of life continues.
Beth: Not that I'm confident I thoroughly understood all of the film's messages, but my only lingering question is what to make of Godzilla himself. Bollywood-brain makes me think everyone is either heroic or evil. And I realized after reading about the film in WTF-Film [linked below], the story has at least one moment of showing a different interpretation of Godzilla's actions: on one of his rampages, he kills the most idiotic and amoral of the humans, making him a sort of judge figure
Minikhan: Should we assume Godzilla did that on purpose? He didn't seem to be seeking them out specifically.
Beth: I think for Godzilla it was a coincidence, but for the audience it's a nice bit of irony. It's fun to imagine Godzilla sighing "You morons. How many times am I going to have to reappear before you figure it out?"
Minikhan: Fellow MOSS agent The Horror said of Godzilla: "He suddenly appears, either awoken or created by an H-bomb. Tends to be rather grumpy in this part of his career." But that doesn't answer what his most fundamental nature is. Would he have been out to destroy human civilization if he hadn't been nuked?
Beth: That's what I wonder. If he was just an innocent creature going about his business and we somehow turned him into a villain, I would feel really bad for him.
Minikhan: But if his base instinct is to kill humans, it's okay to try to electrocute him in a giant net?
Beth: Well, no, but at least it makes some sort of pragmatic sense. A simple battle for survival is less ethically murky. Cruelly fighting something that we forced to be our enemy is more painful.
Minikhan: Godzilla has such a sad, desolate cry. It was hard not to feel for him.
Beth! He does! Watching him try to free his tail from that giant metal tower was so heart-wrenching!
Minikhan: There was something dog-like in some of those movements. Dog slash dinosaur slash elephant slash AT-AT Walker.
Beth: The contrast between the two creatures was so well done. Godzilla is dark, scaly, and heavy, while Mothra is fuzzy, colorful, and light; Godzilla just stomps around and roars, while Mothra actually thinks and has a sense of morals. But both are clearly so powerful. They make a great adversarial pair.
Minikhan: It's like Arjun Rampal and non-miniKhan all over again.
Beth: I assume Arjun is Godzilla in this scenario?
Minikhan: Mothra would make a good Bollywood mother: self-sacrificing for her children and the larger good.
Beth: What did you think of the musical numbers? I wasn't expecting those at all and was very pleasantly surprised by them.
Minikhan: The fairies from Mothra's island [Emi and Yumi Ito] have gorgeous voices! Clear and rich and the composer gave them some lush alto lines.
Beth: My only music-related complaint is that there should have been more time given to the islanders doing their big chant/prayer thing in their pseudo-Oceanic feathery outfits with the huge stone heads and colored lighting all around while Mothra's egg hatches and the grand, bombastic music plays.
Minikhan: That might be the Bollywood talking.
Beth: As is to be expected. But really, why hire and costume all those extras—and paint them orange!—if you're not going to use them?
Minikhan: It was all really fun.
Beth: And it had dil-squish too.
Minikhan: Do I sense many more hours of colorful puppets and people stomping around in rubber suits in our future?
Here's another review of Mothra vs. Godzilla by fellow MOSS agent WTF-Film. To read about my Secret Santa gift to the almighty Teleport City, the Hindi horror movie music compilation Bollywood Bloodbath, click here.


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PHOENIX, Sept. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions around the nation recently watched the NBC premier of "The Michael J. Fox Show." Leading experts at the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in Phoenix say they are delighted to see national exposure for this often misunderstood disease.
The new television series stars Michael J. Fox as a news anchor who returns to work five years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which affects as many as 1.5 million Americans.
"Our patients face many of the same life challenges as Michael J. Fox, so we are all excited to see him return to national television, bringing awareness to the disease," says Abraham Lieberman, MD, medical director of the Ali center. "Like Muhammad Ali, Michael J. Fox continues to be a champion for Parkinson's awareness and research."
Parkinson's disease experts from the Ali center at St. Joseph's Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix are hopeful that Fox's character will both inspire patients and educate the general public about everyday struggles and successes for someone living with the disease.
"It's important for a figure like Michael J. Fox to show the world that people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease can still live quality lives," says Arshia Sadreddin, MD, neurologist at the Ali center.
Since its founding in 1997, the Ali center has understood that medicine is only part of the treatment for Parkinson's disease. Last year, experts at the Ali center greeted more than 3,000 participants in their unique exercise, education and support programs which are now being emulated at other Parkinson's centers around the nation.
"Our unique community programs and the outstanding medical care are what make the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center truly innovative and a leader in the nation," says Margaret Anne Coles, the Ali center's program manager. "Over the years, we've added unconventional programs such as expressive art classes, exercise classes which include Tai Chi and Yoga, a music club, a choir, and recreation therapy activities including a golf clinic."
Research suggests about 60 percent of Parkinson's patients experience depression, anxiety or apathy. Specially designed for people with Parkinson's by experts at the Ali Center, these community programs help improve patients' quality of life by managing more than the physical effects of Parkinson's disease.
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A long list of Lemons
Hey guys!
We are resting easy in Atlanta for the day. We head back to FL tonight after sun down because the air conditioning in the van doesn't work anymore (of course) and its been spitting heat at us. I've been doing some catching up online so there are a few things I want to talk to you about, or write to you about.
First off,
our kind fans and friends at the Steel Bridge Songfest after hearing our nightmare story about the bus, started an act of pro-active lemon-sending to the Bus Group. There is a short video you can watch. Basically, they all took a lemon each, wrote a message on it, and are sending it to the Bus Group addressed to the president. I wish it was my idea, but it wasn't. It came out of the brilliant brain of Rick Younglove. So if you can, buy a lemon, write a message on it and mail it to them. Let's make sure they know that we wont back down, and what they did to us isn't right and wont be forgotten. Here is a short video you can watch of the lemon activism. Send the Bus Group some lemons too!
I would like to remind all of you folks that are in the greater Tampa Bay area, we are playing a FREE (!!) show next Friday the 25th at The Local 662. Its right across the street from The State Theatre, address is 662 Central Ave. Please come out, say hello, give us hugs and let us cry on your shoulder like babies for 5 minutes. Also on the bill is BAMF's, Marksmen, and Sons of Hippies. Show starts around 9pm so please get there around 8:30pm to see everyone. We will have our new cds, tshirts and stickers if you haven't gotten them by now.
I sat down to make a wish list of things we are short of and/or need this year. If you have any of these things and are looking to get rid of them, or you could donate them to us, it would make our road life much much easier. One man's junk, is another man's treasure and we are no ashamed to recycle. :]
1. Mac Laptop- my G4 has crapped out on me time and time for the last time now. We don't have a computer to use on the road, post updates,record demos, etc. I went on ebay to look at what they go for used. If we had the money we could get a MacBook for $400. If you have a mac that works and has Garage Band on it that you don't use, we could really use it! It will help us keep in touch with you, because at this point, we are at the mercy of people and places that will let me use their computers.
2.Cam Corder- We have been wanting to videotape our road adventures,shows, and things that are interesting but we don't have anything to do it with. This last tour would have made a pretty interesting and amazing documentary had we something to record it with. Any cam corder with USB cable will work.
3.Instrument Cables- Things get left behind and stolen on the road. We are short 2 cables right now. Any old,working instrument cables will work.
4.Small PA- Some of the venues we are playing this year don't have a sound system, and neither do we, which means we can't play the shows. Those are usually (and strangely) the highest paying gigs. We don't have a lot of space however, so we would be looking for either 2 small powered speakers, or a small PA with a head.
5.Microphones-Somewhere,sometime my Beta 58 got broken this trip. I usually use my own microphone on gigs because one, I know how it sounds and how to sing in it, and two, Bacteria and slobber from other singers don't touch my mouth :]. Any Beta 58 or better will do.
6.Small External Hard Drive-This would be needed to take recording sessions with us. So far we've done a few sessions on the road, written and recorded songs and we don't have them because we have no way of getting the actual session. If we have the session it makes it much easier to keep track of the originality of the song once we go into the studio for the next record.
7.Digital Camera- Our digital camera has a broken screen and a lense. So, any digital camera you have laying around that you know takes good photos would be great.
8.Guitar Stands-Another piece of equipment that keeps getting stolen/lost is our guitar stands. We are left with leaving our instruments on the ground. At this point we need one guitar stand. Any old guitar stand will do.
9.GIFT CARDS/GAS CARDS-Gift cards for Clothing/Food and Gas Cards are probably one of the main things. Seeing as though we don't have money for much, if we had an extra $50-$100 for gas when there is an emergency will help get us to the next gig, and also clothes/food cards will get a whole lot since we wont have to spend too much money on mundane things. Any brand, any store, any amount.
This is our GIANT wish list. Not in order at all. If you have these things and can spare them, or you could donate $ for us to get them, or even get them for us, you'd be helping out an obvious never ending cause (our musical struggle) but you'd be at least keeping us afloat to do what we are out here to do. If you donate to us you will receive the new record and I pledge to email you any songs that are being recorded as B-sides or demos for the next record. Also, I will get you into any of our shows you want to come to.
If you have these things and can donate, please mail them to:
1904 Arrowhead Dr NE
St Petersburg FL 33703
ATT: Geri X
oh, yes, and also the Bus Group Address is:
Bus Group 1928 Hyannis Court
College Park, GA 30337
Ok , so bam! here is a whole heap of information for you. We are tired but so ready for the next leg of the tour.
Thank you kind people for reading and helping. If we ever get famous, you all will have front row tickets to every show you want!
Love, needy little G


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Wikipedia in the UK
What we're likely picking up on is that fact that large districts simply have more potential stuff to write about. If we normalise the map by area we see an entirely different pattern. The map below displays the number of articles per square KM.
We see that most of the large urban conurbations in the UK are covered by a dense layer of articles. Most sparsely populated areas in contrast have a much thinner layer of virtual representation in Wikipedia. There are, however, some notable exceptions. Parts of Cornwall, Somerset and the Isle of Wight all have a denser layer of content than might be expected for such relatively rural parts of the country. One might expect a higher density in the districts surrounding Belfast (in fact almost all of Northern Ireland is characterised by very low levels of content per square KM).
Finally, we can look a the number of articles per person in each district:
Here some more surprising results are visible. All major urban areas have relatively low counts of article per person (with the exception of central London). In contrast, many rural areas (particularly areas containing national parks) have high counts per person.
There are obviously a range of ways to measure the geographies of Wikipedia in the UK. We see that some areas are blanketed by a highly dense layer of virtual content (e.g. central London and many of the UK's other major conurbations). These maps also highlight the fact that some parts of the UK are characterised by a paucity of content irrespective of the ways in which the data are normalised. Northern Ireland in particular stands out in this respect.
I'll attempt to upload similar analyses of other countries in the next few months. In the meantime, however, please offer thoughts on these maps either below or on the cross post at the Floatingsheep blog.
p.s. many thanks to Adham Tamer for his help with the data extraction.
8 comments:
- karl said...
It would be interesting to associate the originating IP of the edits, aka is it local people editing or people from everywhere in the world.
- November 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Mark Graham said...
Indeed. I'm currently working with some colleagues on ways to measure the locations of contributors.
- November 30, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- Victuallers said...
Brilliant - well done
- December 1, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- Victuallers said...
Just an idea I'd been thinking about which you may find interesting.
Most Wikipedian editors spend their time editting UK/US stuff that is close to where they live.
If there was a tool that told them where the "centre of gravity" of their edits was. Then they might start editting African/Asian subjects??
Can't do it myself, but it looks like you might know someone with the data? - December 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM
- Mark Graham said...
@Victuallers: Funny that you suggest a tool like that because my officemate and I have been plotting just such a thing over the last few weeks. It will involve quite a bit of work, but we are currently putting together a grant proposal to make it happen. I'll post more details about the plan in the next few months. Thanks for the thoughts!
- December 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Jodi Schneider said...
I'm looking forward to similar maps for Ireland!
In terms of geolocation for IP edits-- Laura Hale's work on Wikipedia articles on sport and Australia might be interesting:
http://ozziesport.com/2010/10/expanded-profile-of-australian-en-wp-users/ - December 5, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- Mark Graham said...
If you have any county level GIS files (e.g. shapefiles) of Ireland handy, I'd be happy to do the same analysis over there. - December 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Victuallers said...
Well Ive got more interested in this subject since I took over as chair in this country. Did your grant application happen? I am just completing a project where I have had 40 editors outside the UK writing 1,000 articles and translations about one building. (See "The Wright Challenge"
- July 31, 2011 at 7:58 PM