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Michael Overs blogs about his efforts to learn the streets of London well enough to earn the green badge of the London cabbie.
The London cabbie's "Knowledge" - downloadable for £24.99
To get a London taxi license, a cabbie has to master "The Knowledge" --memorize 320 runs and 20,000 points within five miles of Charing Cross. This is a set of study materials. "This complete pack contains a full set of runs, Points (over 30,000), Blank Maps (over 30), a list of London Embassies, Restaurants (over 4,000), Police Stations and Police memorials, Blue Plaques, London Museums, Theatres, Squares and Statues."
An amazing collection of database lookups, covering phone numbers, email, zip codes and statistics, address verification, maps, and much more.
Migrations Map: Where are migrants coming from? Where have migrants left?
Interactive HTML5 map. Click a country and see the top 10 sources for immigrants and the top 10 destinations for emigrants. Migrants are defined as people born in one country now residing in another, so these numbers are cumulative.
Ordnance Survey: A Guide to Coordinate Systems in Great Britain
Appendix B explains how to convert between earth centered earth fixed (ECEF) cartesian coordinates and ellipsoidal latitude, longitude, and height.
US House Redistricting: Oklahoma
Would it have been possible to draw a congressional district in Oklahoma that Barack Obama would have won in 2008? Two different possibilities are presented, both of them long and narrow -- one stretching from north Tulsa to Lawton, the other a four-tentacled beast centered on Okmulgee, reaching into Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Logan County, the Lake Eufaula area, and Muskogee, Wagoner, and Tahlequah. But even in these districts, the best Obama could do was 51.9%.
McCasland Maps: Works Progress Administration, Nowata County, Oklahoma, sheet 7
In 1936, the WPA published maps of rural property ownership, one for each township in the state. This map shows Nowata and the area to the north. Of interest to railroad, interurban, and streetcar fans -- the map shows the route of the Union Electric Traction Company, an electric interurban line that connected Nowata to Coffeyville, Kansas until 1947.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39872
"'Tourism' - a word first appearing in print in 1822 - quickly turned professional, attested by the rapid spread during the 19th century of Hotel Bristol as a generic name for overnight accommodation for the weary tourist [1]. Tourism also produced a new type of cartography - the tourist map. These were explicitly designed to be alluring, to include and reflect the leisurely enjoyment of travel.
"This map is a late example of an early type of tourist map, the so-called Rheinpanorama. It depicts, in overlapping sections, and embellished with postcard-like images of riverside attractions, the most popular stretch of what came to be known as the Romantic Rhine, from Bonn to Mainz."
A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
By Ian Gregory. Introductory info about GIS, methods of acquiring and converting data for inclusion, basic GIS functionality, representing time in GIS, producing maps from GIS, spatial analysis of statistical data, qualitative data in GIS, and the History Data Service, a repository for historical GIS data.
