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The Malaria Atlas Project worked on a global hospital accessibility dataset, base on OSM roads + other data : Travel Time to Nearest Healthcare Facility with Access to Motorized Tr…

OmniGraffle works well for me. (MacOS)

It's coming : https://www.openaire.eu/france-final-text-of-the-law-for-oa-...

The large circles often mask the little ones. No legend, no symbol scale, no color scale. That's not how you do thematic cartography.

Joyeux noël :)

And her hatred about France (at the time) too.

Interesting. Still nothing about the ridiculous Mercator projection.

Old 2004 news ? : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm

- WebServices, to provide access for R, Python, and spatial calculations (WPS norm). Complex calculations without installing any client software, anywhere with an Internet connecti…

And repeated letters are lame and childish (but we have been spared the exclamation points).

Yes, what a pity it's reserved to US citizens :/

Thanks for this very interesting report of the conference. The positions and arguments are well and shortly exposed. The boundary between diagram and geographical map is in questio…

I'm more interested by the versioning function. For book-size manuscripts i work chapter by chapter + annexes.

I love the idea of automatic secure saves for my writings. I can use flashbake instead of dropbox. But i'd like to have a clear understanding of GitHub free plans caveats, especial…

An example of the contamination of bad world maps projection : http://aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com/

I'm specially appalled by learning the fact that all magazine maps are officially rubber-stamped to inform the reader about the usage of the map ! More on this subject : http://www…

"A Beautiful Mind", about John Forbes Nash Jr.

Google Maps is not useless, far from it. The projection method chosen (Mercator) is useless for the small scales, and misleading. Except if you are a (XVII° century) marine navigat…

The micro-scale graphical design is good. It's a pity, however, that big geographical and data quality blunders are present on Google Maps. Examples : world projection (Mercator, u…

I agree, but i kept wondering about the lifespan of my apple-samsung ssd, without trim.

The best (scientifically sound and recent) information about color perception i found is in Colin Ware books : - Information Visualization : perception for design (chapter 4 about …

Google Maps must diffuse metadatas with their maps : date, origin/source, level of quality, scale of usability, etc. It's the least they can do to reduce the occurence of such prob…