31 May 2006

Battle Maps : http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/memorial/?page=maps of historical US wars such as the Revolutionary War, War with Mexico, War of 1812, Civil War and more.

A new international e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps : http://www.maplibrary.gr/e_perimetron/Vol_1_1/Vol1_1.htm is now in circulation. Via : http://www.maplibrary.gr/e_perimetron/

Variable (Google) Map transparency : http://www.kokogiak.com/gmaps-transparencies.html?ll=47.59528253666879N,122.34580993652344W Via http://wink.com/googlemaps%20satellite

Simple Hex engine using DirectX : http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/hexengine.asp

Difficult Javascript, understand how maps scale : http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_21543210.html

ka-Map! Documentation Wiki : http://ka-map.ominiverdi.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

PICTORIAL MAPS : http://www.ars-cartae.com/index.htm (Slovakia).

List of websites with a high PageRank : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_with_a_high_PageRank

"...The window is not hidden, it's just smaller. When you want to bring it back it comes back into the focus area. When you drag it near the periphery the window gets smaller..." : http://research.microsoft.com/displayarticle.aspx?id=433

Canadian IT Body of Knowledge (BOK) : www.cips.ca/standards/isp/bok is an outline of the knowledge bases that form the intellectual basis for the IT profession. The 11 Areas of Knowledge;
a) Professionalism Issues in Information Systems Practice..............8 Topics
b) Architecture...............................................................................7
c) Networks....................................................................................6
d) Databases...................................................................................6
e) Object oriented programming.................................................4
f) Project management.................................................................4
g) Service management................................................................9
h) Software engineering................................................................6
i) Systems analysis........................................................................6
j) Systems design...........................................................................5
k) The Internet and the Web.......................................................6

MAP YOUR WORLD. http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php PUBLISH YOUR LIFE. CREATE YOUR JOURNEY. Via http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/links.html

Influential blogger : http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20060525_windows_vista_at_work.phtml attracts Microsoft attention.

A vein of 'map' gold to be mined : http://digg.com/users/jables

"If you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French Aviator, Writer
"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd." - Edward de Bono (1933~) Maltese Physician, Educator Via http://www.yuni.com/wow/quotes.shtml
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." - George Orwell (1903-1950) [Eric Arthur Blair] English Novelist

1 comment:

GreatMap said...

Sketched a map at
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/Images/CIPSBOKmap.jpg
of the IT Body of Knowledge (BOK) outlined at wwww.cips.ca/standards/isp/bok
illustrating the knowledge bases of the IT profession.