In some cases, you don't need the whole Information of a Web page. Therefore, ContentSaver extends the shortcut menu of Internet Explorer. It gives you total freedom on exactly what you save so you can save only the information that is important and valuable to you. You can save entire web pages, or selected parts (snippets, images, URLs, etc.). There's also a nifty "save multiple pages" button that saves not just the page you're viewing, but all of the pages linked from that page, automatically, without the need to open each one individually in your browser. http://www.macropool.de/en/products/contentsaver_pro/screenshots.html
There is VB Active-X source code which handles the connection between the local app and the WebGIS map (show the maps in a HTML browser but control them from the local app). Source is on http://www.mapbender.org, just follow the download links.
"What's missing from most people's lives, is the realization that nothing is missing from their lives." - Ron Wild
(ie. you probably already have whatever you think you may be looking for)
"Great minds, by definition, don't think alike." - Ron Wild
11 August 2004
10 August 2004
Envision can play multiple shows at the same time, each in a different (Mac only) window. It can give you an overview of a Web site as a series of thumbnail images... http://www.opendoor.com/envision/EnvisionFAQ.html
Map Mecca http://www.rgs.org/category.php?page=socimap the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) opened its new facilities to the public, which provide access to one of the world’s largest geographical collections containing over two million maps, photographs, books, artwork, artefacts and documents... 500 years of geographical discovery and research.
The mistakes in old maps are one of the primary aspects which makes them interesting to us, and much of the history of cartography is the history of the correction of these errors. http://www.philaprintshop.com/myth.html
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes , the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, glorify or vilify then. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things, they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do..." - Apple
"You're not supposed to be able to see it with your eyes first (it wouldn't be "manifesting" if you could)
See it with your heart first. That's what it's there for, sort of". - The Universe
Map Mecca http://www.rgs.org/category.php?page=socimap the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) opened its new facilities to the public, which provide access to one of the world’s largest geographical collections containing over two million maps, photographs, books, artwork, artefacts and documents... 500 years of geographical discovery and research.
The mistakes in old maps are one of the primary aspects which makes them interesting to us, and much of the history of cartography is the history of the correction of these errors. http://www.philaprintshop.com/myth.html
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes , the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, glorify or vilify then. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things, they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do..." - Apple
"You're not supposed to be able to see it with your eyes first (it wouldn't be "manifesting" if you could)
See it with your heart first. That's what it's there for, sort of". - The Universe
09 August 2004
Non-sequential Panning : "Overview-detail interfaces present multiple views of a map where the detail window shows a detailed map view, while the overview window shows an overview map. These interfaces have a number of benefits. (Example at http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/mapc3.html ) First, navigation is more efficient because users may navigate using the overview window rather than using the detail window. Clicking on any of the grid cells in the overview window, the map page refreshes and the map view in the detail window shifts to the area the user has clicked on." http://www.webmapper.net/maps/navigation/panning/grid_map/
(Im)possible Map http://www.zen-style.com/#updates Global participatory "Fool's World Map" project
"Given a two-dimensional surface, transparency and contrast are the means to place identities/forms through spatial depth. Transparency will place the forms in depth away from us and contrast will raise them towards us." - Newberry http://www.anartistsvoice.org/
"The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own." - Hemingway
"I have the strong impression that the way to achieve status in business and government as a consultant-guru is to boil your message down into such a simplistic remedy that people can be induced to *believe* it, rather than *think about* it. There is a bigger market for evangelists than for philosophers. " - Conrad Taylor conrad@ideograf.demon.co.uk
"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan
(Im)possible Map http://www.zen-style.com/#updates Global participatory "Fool's World Map" project
"Given a two-dimensional surface, transparency and contrast are the means to place identities/forms through spatial depth. Transparency will place the forms in depth away from us and contrast will raise them towards us." - Newberry http://www.anartistsvoice.org/
"The individual, the great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own." - Hemingway
"I have the strong impression that the way to achieve status in business and government as a consultant-guru is to boil your message down into such a simplistic remedy that people can be induced to *believe* it, rather than *think about* it. There is a bigger market for evangelists than for philosophers. " - Conrad Taylor conrad@ideograf.demon.co.uk
"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan
06 August 2004
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
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
05 August 2004
LookAhead ( http://lookahead.mozdev.org/ ), a tool for proactively getting Google results in multiple browser windows. Once you've installed the extension, and choose LookAhead, you can run a Google search and get the results opened in multiple browser windows. It is not clear how many windows open at a time. It does look like you will need an API key to make this work.
04 August 2004
"[Mapmaking is] an incredibly difficult job. Let's say you're working in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, an age in which mapmakers were sometimes referred to as "world describers." In geometry, describe means to draw or trace the outline of something; in poetry, it means to get at the essence of something, to bring it to life in a way that's both startling and beautiful. You've got to do both kinds of description--and do it in a medium that partially visible, partially mathematical, partially textual, a complicated miscellany of scale, orientation, projection, grids, signs, symbols, lines, colors, words." - Miles Harvey : From The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed by David Rumsey (excellent book to get). "Not satisfied with merely amassing a hoard of handsome old maps, Rumsey, who has already shared his collection with us online, shows us in these breathtaking pages why old maps are so interesting. In the process of telling stories about maps, handsomely reproducing maps, enlarging map details, stitching maps together, and combining maps with the latest digital data, Rumsey and Punt expose us to the joyous disorder of cartophilia." - Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer, National Geographic Society
The Voyages of the Treasure Fleets, 1421-3 are illustrated here using an animated flash movie. http://www.1421.tv/maps.asp
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John W. Gardner
Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed by David Rumsey (excellent book to get). "Not satisfied with merely amassing a hoard of handsome old maps, Rumsey, who has already shared his collection with us online, shows us in these breathtaking pages why old maps are so interesting. In the process of telling stories about maps, handsomely reproducing maps, enlarging map details, stitching maps together, and combining maps with the latest digital data, Rumsey and Punt expose us to the joyous disorder of cartophilia." - Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer, National Geographic Society
The Voyages of the Treasure Fleets, 1421-3 are illustrated here using an animated flash movie. http://www.1421.tv/maps.asp
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John W. Gardner
03 August 2004
Sitemap with page thumbs http://www.joe10.com/sitemap/cloud/map.html
Logotypes; http://www.logotypes.ru/list_e.asp?cat=M&page=2
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams (ie the benefit of information maps?)
Everyone has somewhere to go and an all important train to catch, except, it seems, yourself. And as you ponder this in bewilderment, you scare yourself even more by realizing that you have no idea what your train will look like. Or whether it has come and gone already (?)
Logotypes; http://www.logotypes.ru/list_e.asp?cat=M&page=2
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams (ie the benefit of information maps?)
Everyone has somewhere to go and an all important train to catch, except, it seems, yourself. And as you ponder this in bewilderment, you scare yourself even more by realizing that you have no idea what your train will look like. Or whether it has come and gone already (?)
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