ColorBrewer is a color diagnostic tool - not an online GIS. You cannot load your own data into ColorBrewer. Instead, use our maps to "test drive" a given color scheme to see if it suits your mapping needs. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html

American doctrine of fair use, which tries to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in distributing ideas and allowing others to build on them. In general, an artist or writer can copy excerpts from the works of others for the purposes of education, criticism, research or news reporting. Fair use permits a creator to use someone else's work without permission from the owner. When evaluating fair use, courts consider four criteria, case by case: whether the new creative work has commercial purposes, how much of the original material the new work uses, how the new work affects the market value of the original, and the nature of the original. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64469,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html

The Lesson In software, assume that everything is already patented. You can’t build anything, no matter how new it is, without infringing someone’s patent. Of course, a very high proportion of those patents could quite likely be invalidated by prior art, from both the patent space and outside. But that’s expensive; a patent is an extremely potent offensive weapon in the hands of a smart attorney, because most companies don’t have enough financial slack to fight intellectual-property litigation. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/08/05/LinuxPatents ...
"But what I really worry about is the basic broken-ness of the US Patent system. It’s sucking money and time and resources out of the whole technology ecosystem; it’s a bleeding sore on our business and our culture and our people. It’s way past time to fix it. "

Digital Camera Poster Creator v2.03 (shareware) lets you create any size/shape poster from your digital images ( includes our exclusive Edge Calibration technology that custom adjusts for any printer and ensures seamless, top quality posters). http://www.srs1software.com/download.htm#dcpc

Turkish Map Fold http://www.sfcb.org/php/bookpix.php3?id=t3-111604-bnd

"Most search tools focus on improving the "search experience; Information Maps are focused on the "discovery experience."" - Ron Wild

how to be creative http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000876.html

Map as jacket lining http://oldmaps.free.fr/livre/mecamaps03.htm also http://www.silkmaps.com

"Mankind cannot bear too much reality." - T.S. Eliot