https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=979222 2025-09-12T06:39:11Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=979222 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > maps and geography Our goal is to create a mapping tool that captures and highlights what truly matters to communities, empowering them to use it to influence how their places are planned and developed. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1665247 https://publicmap.org/en/about 2025-09-12T06:39:11Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1663703 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise 2025-04-28T05:42:54Z From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657494 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240214-mappa-mundi-the-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world 2024-02-19T20:39:47Z The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1656201 https://deep-mapping-estate-archives-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com/pages/deep-mapping-estate-archives-project 2022-12-16T07:43:28Z The Gough Map test is internationally-renowned as one of... to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Y... questions remain of how the map was made, who made it, w... This website presents an interactive, searchable editio ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1654398 http://www.goughmap.org/about/ 2022-09-27T08:01:06Z Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library fo... interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it h... features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usa ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653987 https://leafletjs.com/#close 2022-09-11T09:02:44Z Nominatim (from the Latin, 'by name') is a tool to searc... and address and to generate synthetic addresses of OSM p... geocoding). It can be found at nominatim.openstreetmap.org. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1604208 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim 2017-05-15T18:49:19Z Have you ever stood on a beach in Wales and wondered wha... side of the ocean? Finding the answer is not as simple as drawing a straigh ... Map experts at Esri UK have created an interactive map w ... Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, for example, faces Antarct https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1589520 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38331563 2016-12-27T19:54:49Z There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful... Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ... Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ... 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Commune the military advances of the Versailles army wer... basis as the revolutionaries sought to keep them at bay.... nearly 100 years and the Situationists were once again m... altogether https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1496007 http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/02/print-this-map-get-off-the-internet-take-to-the-streets-5-of-the-lefts-best-mapping-moments/ 2015-07-24T09:44:45Z Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps David Shariatmadari David Shariatmadari Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1472635 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/04/gps-history-of-cartography-amazing-maps?CMP=fb_gu 2015-05-05T12:51:38Z When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. 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This seamless historic map can be: embedded in your own website used for research purposes ... rdnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1355835 http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/index.html 2014-04-18T10:17:06Z Tate holds over 70,000 items in its collection. Help us locate them around the world. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1345492 http://artmaps.tate.org.uk/artmaps/tate/#zoom=15&lat=51.51&lng=-0.10&maptype=hybrid 2014-03-06T07:33:06Z Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1343721 http://mapkibera.org/ 2014-02-26T10:42:11Z GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic... GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a... features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types:... Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and ... Features in https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341798 http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html 2014-02-18T18:38:57Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1336482 http://flood.firetree.net/ 2014-02-03T22:44:46Z British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons :iconjaysimons: British Isles in 2100by JaySimons Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other©2012-2014 Ja ... ... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1336080 http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/British-Isles-in-2100-315945336 2014-02-02T21:35:43Z Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land... Facebook Twitter Google+ ... e is, in short, trying to rethink how data is presented. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1304720 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/a-makeover-for-maps/?src=rechp&_r=1 2014-01-15T12:33:18Z Modern Abstract City Maps Paris New York Milan maps London I’m really enjoying these abstract city maps by Jazzbe ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1294513 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/modern-abstract-city-maps/ 2014-01-09T06:58:52Z Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fair... drawing Yr Ods EP Cover, 2013. 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