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Archive for October 2008

Mapping tag clouds

29 October 2008 tagged election maps, generalization, map projects, tag clouds with 3 comments

Over on the Axis Maps blog I’ve written up a side project I began several months ago but never got very far on: mapping the geography of presidential campaign speeches. It’s still an interesting idea, but my colleagues and I didn’t have the time to fully develop it, so you’ll have to settle for some […]

Blog-on-blog action: Axis Maps blog

22 October 2008 tagged axis maps with Comments Off on Blog-on-blog action: Axis Maps blog

I wish to call attention to the fact that my humble little company Axis Maps has launched a new blog. This blog, I must stress, does not exist merely to promote ourselves, but rather to talk about practical cartography. So please stay tuned to it while our Ph.D. holders Mark Harrower and Ben Sheesley drop […]

Faking a progressive image download in Flash

20 October 2008 tagged flash with Comments Off on Faking a progressive image download in Flash

So I have a single map that I need to show at several different scales in an interactive fashion. It’s got to be a pretty big image to look decent when I zoom in, so that means a large file and a long download. But I only need to see the scaled-down map when it […]

GeoCommons Maker! Awesome or super awesome?

1 October 2008 tagged axis maps, map projects, online maps with 3 comments

After a summer of long hours and occasional vagarancy, I’m happy to report that GeoCommons Maker! has launched today.  FortiusOne’s CEO Sean Gorman nicely sums up what Maker (I’m going to go ahead and drop the exclamation point henceforth) is all about: Data that was once the sole providence of GIS professionals can now be […]