tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19008351707784860042024-03-13T04:55:56.250+01:00Maps and CartographyYou may not know where you are going, but it helps to know where you are. Can you find what may be the stars of Scorpio on this map?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-85563104293416700192016-03-05T01:03:00.000+01:002016-03-05T01:03:07.028+01:003D Tracking Navigation Gadget Perception & Mapping via Smartphones Implementing Project Tango by GoogleA recent headline at The Verge pointed to a smartphone revolution:<br />
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10734314/lenovo-google-project-tango-smartphone-announced-ces-2016" target="_blank">Lenovo is making the first consumer phone with Google's Project Tango</a>. <br />
<br />
Those
who think that the future of smartphones and privacy is being decided
in the current Apple-FBI encryption controversy may be missing the real
boat.<br />
<br />
First of all, governments can not permit the
existence of technology which hides evidence forever from law
enforcement agencies when people's survival may depend on being able to
obtain access to hidden information. We have no doubt that the
controversy will be resolved in the interest of society generally.<br />
<br />
Secondly,
as far as the future of smartphones is concerned, Apple, Inc. has much
more to be worried about in the coming advance of technologies such as <a href="https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/about-project-tango/" target="_blank">Google's Project Tango</a>,
which will be released in a Lenovo smartphone this summer, implementing
new 3D mapping technology for consumers that was already on display in
Barcelona in February and <b>which will revolutionize the way that people use smartphones to interact with their world</b>.<br />
<br />
See e.g. the YouTube video at<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBIjo8Tsn4s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBIjo8Tsn4s</a>.<br />
<br />
The Lenovo Project Tango page writes as follows at <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/projecttango/" target="_blank">Coming Summer 2016! The World's First Project Tango-Powered Smartphone</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"<b>Google's
Project Tango and Lenovo are partnering to create the world's first
smartphone powered by Project Tango technology. The device, which will
allow users to experience the world in ways never before possible
through a smartphone, will launch in Summer 2016. Watch this space for
the latest from Mobile World Congress and beyond on new Project Tango
experiences and details on the coming device!</b>"</span></blockquote>
Project
Tango involves the convergence of many new "locational",
"navigational", "sonar" and "mapping" technologies -- also such as have
just been introduced in consumer drone technology and about which we
have been posting. We have not been writing about drones for nothing and
perhaps there is more than a subtle connection to our publications
about ancient mapping systems, e.g. <b>Sky Earth Native America</b> (see <a href="https://www.createspace.com/5745812" target="_blank">Vol. 1</a> and <a href="https://www.createspace.com/5745813" target="_blank">Vol. 2</a>) and <a href="http://bookstore.trafford.com/Products/SKU-000167707/Stars-Stones-and-Scholars.aspx" target="_blank">Stars Stones and Scholars</a>.<br />
<br />
It was Giordano Bruno who reportedly stated that "<b>if the world has no beginning or end, then where are we?</b>"<br />
<br />
That
concern for our location has been a guiding question of humanity from
its very inception, and it guides the rationale for much of science and
religion, which try to answer the question of "WHERE ARE WE?" Indeed,
the common orientation of ancient and modern systems of mapping and
navigation is the aim to "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9m9a2KEN4" target="_blank">help everything and everyone understand where they are</a>".<br />
<br />
Project Tango as implemented in smartphones will lead to unprecedented new possibilities. <br />
<br />
See the following YouTube videos:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9m9a2KEN4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9m9a2KEN4</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vppay5UDc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vppay5UDc</a>.</li>
</ul>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-20930404654976484822016-02-11T15:43:00.001+01:002016-02-11T15:43:54.380+01:00The New Ground-Based GPS Locata Network May Have a Bright Future to Eliminate Terrestrial Blind Spots and Advance Indoor MappingAt Scientific American in the article <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-and-the-u-s-air-force-test-a-new-ground-based-gps">NASA and the U.S. Air Force Test a New Ground-Based GPS</a>, Corinne Iozzio reports on the Australian <a href="http://www.locata.com/">Locata</a> terrestrial i.e. <b>ground-based</b> network, "<span style="color: #0b5394;">that could eliminate the GPS’s blind spots and advance indoor mapping</span>". <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-and-the-u-s-air-force-test-a-new-ground-based-gps">Read more here</a>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-34450571874424496042014-01-24T17:23:00.004+01:002014-01-24T17:24:25.959+01:0040 Maps Explaining the World from Max Fisher and the Washington Post Foreign Staff at World ViewsMax Fisher and the Washington Post Foreign Staff at World Views present<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/">40 more maps that explain the world</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-87738038305501225782013-08-12T08:43:00.001+02:002013-08-12T08:43:33.982+02:00An Ultimate Article on Making Modern Online Maps and Cartography via Crowdsourcing: Google MapMaker Open Street MapFor a wide-ranging report on modern online map portals and cartography via crowdsourcing see Katie Collins and <a href='http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/05/slum-mapping-google-maps-cartography'>Uncharted territory: amateur cartographers fight to put their communities on the map (Wired UK)</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-47397328867636612992013-07-05T10:26:00.005+02:002013-07-05T10:26:58.533+02:00Göbekli Tepe Groundplan Map and InterpretationDecipherment of Gobekli Tepe (Göbekli Tepe) as Land Survey by Astronomy, Marking the Stars of Cancer, Which Stood at the Vernal Equinox ca. 7400 B.C.<br />
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I am posting here two maps:<br />
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MAP 1 and MAP 2<br />
of my decipherment of Gobekli Tepe<br />
as marking the stars of Cancer,<br />
which marked the Vernal Equinox in ca. 7400 B.C.<br />
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No text beyond that. It is not necessary, beyond the observation that M44, the Beehive Cluster is marked by the two neighboring small "cloud shapes" at Göbekli Tepe. The "pillars" and "rooms" otherwise mark specific stars or star groups of Cancer.<br />
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<b>MAP 1</b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-67437356949495654942013-07-05T10:25:00.002+02:002013-07-05T10:25:52.161+02:00Land Survey of the Ancient WorldAn interesting map of "the ancient world" is found in a May 31, 2013 posting at Dienekes' Anthropology Blog titled <a href="http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2013/05/origins-of-maykop-phenomenon.html" target="_blank">Origins of the Maykop phenomenon</a>.<br />
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Based on an analysis of that map, using basic land survey principles found at my site at <a href="http://www.megaliths.net/" target="_blank">megaliths.net</a> and at the <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LexiLine/message/2192" target="_blank">LexiLine</a> group, and also in view of my own previous work on the <a href="http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/russia-georgia-caucasus-ossetia.html" target="_blank">dolmens of the Caucasus</a>, I suggest (see <b>Figure 1</b>) that the majority of those ancient Mesopotamian and Persian sites of the Fertile Crescent of the Old World were located by the ancients via land survey principles guided by astronomical observation, using nature's ready-made "map" of the brightest stars in the sky as the blueprint for mapping landmarks on Earth via "cities", temples, megaliths and tumuli. The analysis below has allowed me to decipher Göbekli Tepe as astronomy, a decipherment which follows in the next posting. <br />
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<b>FIGURE 1: The Land Survey of the Ancient World by Astronomy ca. 3800 B.C. with earlier precursors (primarily at Gobekli Tepe)</b><br />
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Archaeologists greatly underestimate the importance of land survey in
ancient civilizations. In days before GPS or maps of paper, parchment, papyrus
or other materials, people nonetheless had to know where they
were, how they were to get from place to place, and which territory
belonged to whom.<br />
<br />
As explained in detail at <a href="http://www.megaliths.net/" target="_blank">megaliths.net</a>, to solve this problem, the ancients
turned to the sky. Anyone who knew the fixed positions of the stars could be
oriented on earth by referring to landmarks intentionally placed according
to the heavenly model. The ancients made their major geographic landmark locations correspond to the brightest
stars and star groupings in the sky -- surely
not "exactly" identical to today's stellar constellations -- but true to the
hermetic principle: "as above, so below", which the ancients meant literally.<br />
<br />
The astronomical interpretation and stellar identification in <b>Figure 1</b> is corroborated by the positions of the tumuli (mounds) at Sé Girdan (<b>Figure 2</b>). These tumuli in my analysis clearly represent the stars of Auriga at Menkalinan, which (together with Warka, viz. Uruk (Auriga) at El Nath) marked the Vernal Equinox in ca. 3800 B.C. Some tumuli may also have been used as tombs for royalty or other important personages, but these tumuli were placed nevertheless according to astronomical principles, some perhaps in other eras.<br />
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<b>FIGURE 2: The Tumuli at SÉ GIRDAN as Marking Stars of Auriga near Menkalinan, which marked the Vernal Equinox in ca. 3800 B.C.</b><br />
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Approximate
positions of the tumuli at Sé Girdan are based on a map figure at the
recently published (June 3, 2013) book by Oscar White Muscarella, <b><a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Archaeology-Artifacts-Antiquities-Ancient-Near-East-Oscar-White-Muscarella/9789004236660" target="_blank">Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East: Sites, Cultures and Proveniences</a></b>, Part I, Sites and Excavations, Section 1, Iran, Chapter 1,<i><b> The Tumuli at Sé Girdan: A Preliminary Report, Figure 2</b></i><b>, page 12</b>, <i>Culture & History of the Ancient Near East</i>,
Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2013. ISBN 9789004236660
and 9789004236691.<br />
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There are said to be 11 tumuli, but I have been able
to find the position of only eight of them in the sources, so three are
missing from my analysis. Their position may, or may not, corroborate my findings, presuming they were part of the original system of astronomically-based placement.<br />
<br />
See as regards the dating of Sé Girdan: <a href="http://archeo.academia.edu/viktortrifonov" target="_blank">Viktor Trifonov</a>, <a href="http://academia.edu/2104974/Maikop_Type_Tumuli_in_Northwest_Iran_towards_a_more_precise_dating_of_the_tumuli_at_Se_Girdan_" target="_blank">Maikop Type Tumuli in Northwest Iran (towards a more precise dating of the tumuli at Se Girdan)</a>, where he writes:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"In
1968 and 1970 participants of the Hasanlu Project, under the joint
sponsorship of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the University of
Pennsylvania, excavated six tumuli of eleven at Se Girdan situated in
the Ushnu valley in northwest Iran.<br /><br />The tumuli, reported by O.
Muscarella, were originally thought without reliable argument to be of
an Iron III [era] creation, "perhaps seventh or sixth century B.C."
(Muscarella, 1971) but re-examination of the date threw more light on
their cultural identity and date. The evidence provided by the Maikop
culture tumuli in the northern Caucasus (encircling stone revetment,
rubble overlay covering tomb, pebble floor in the tomb, orientation,
skeleton position, red ochre, set and types of grave-goods etc.) points
to a series of similarities between the Caucasian kurgans and the tumuli
at Se Girdan.<br /><br />It provides sufficient reason to date the tumuli
at Se Girdan back to ca. 3500-3200 B.C. that is to the period of the
Early Bronze Age in the Caucasus and the period of "the Uruk expansion"
in ancient Near East." </span></blockquote>
Of special significance here is the <a href="http://www.dainst.org/medien/de/Forschungsplan_2009-12_gesamt.pdf" target="_blank">FORSCHUNGSPLAN DES DEUTSCHEN ARCHÄOLOGISCHEN INSTITUTS FÜR DIE JAHRE 2009 - 2012</a>,
page 324, calling attention to the archaeological situation
in the 4th millennium B.C., and noting that the available probative evidence suggests a previously unlikely connection between the cultures and/or
rulers at both Maikop and Se Girdan:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"Das
Inventar dieser Plätze deutet außerdem Beziehungen zu den
chalkolithischen Kulturen Nordmesopotamiens an. Aufgrund von langlebigen
Traditionen der Keramiktechnologie nimmt man außerdem an, dass es eine
Verbindung zu den im 4. Jt. v. Chr. sich neu formierenden
stratifizierten Gesellschaften gibt, deren Eliten sich zwischen Majkop
im Nordkaukasus und Se Girdan in Nordwestiran in der Anlage aufwendiger
Grabanlagen<br />manifestieren."</span></blockquote>
But what was that unlikely connection? <br />
<br />
My
research indicates that initial astronomical calculations for land
survey purposes appear to have been made earlier than 3800 B.C. at
Gobekli Tepe (Göbekli Tepe), marking the Vernal Equinox ca. 7400 B.C. at
Cancer, whereby a triangulation on the ground can then be drawn between
Gobekli Tepe and the position of the Vernal Equinox ca. 3600 years later in
Auriga on a line running from Sé Girdan (Menkalinan) to Warka viz. Uruk
(El Nath). (<b>Figure 3</b>)<br />
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<b>FIGURE 3</b><br />
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The rest is more or less "obvious" in an astronomical context. But of course, you have to L<b>OO</b>K to be able to see that context.<br />
<br />
<b>DISCUSSION</b><br />
<br />
The area of <b>Figure 1</b> assigned to <b>Aries</b> was known in ancient times as <b>Aria</b>.<br />
<br />
In <b>Figure 1</b>, <b>Triangulum</b> is marked by <b>Shahr-i Sokhta</b>, with the <b>Shahr</b> element very similar to Hebrew <b>Shalish</b> as the name for this triangular constellation. Indeed, the animated sequence on an earthen bowl from Shahr-i Sokhta could easily be read SA-LU-SA (i.e. presumably "Shalish" as the name of the city) according to my book <a href="http://www.epubli.de/shop/autor/Andis-Kaulins/3682" target="_blank">Ancient Signs: The Alphabet & The Origins of Writing</a>.<br />
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Ancient <b>Persia</b> e.g. corresponds generally to the stars of the similarly named <b>Perseus</b>. That is quite clear from <b>Figure 1</b>, where the correspondence is eminently obvious. One of the corroborating discoveries, at least in my view, was the finding that the site of <b>Tal-i Iblis</b>, which I now claim marked the famed "<b>Demon Sta</b>r" <b>Algol</b>, derives from the term "Iblis" meaning "Satan" and was known as the "<b><a href="http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/XIII-6-A-4/V-1/images/PDF/0227.pdf" target="_blank">Devil's Mound</a></b>". To me, that particular match suggested that I was on the right track in my astronomical approach to the geography. Indeed, what other reason could there be to so name an old tell.<br />
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<b>Auriga</b> was marked in part by the similarly-named city-state <b>Warka</b> viz. <b>Uruk</b>, which marked the star <b>Elnath (El Nath)</b>. Auriga is the ancient Sumerian <b>SHU.GI</b> which <a href="http://members.westnet.com.au/gary-david-thompson/page11-4.html" target="_blank">Hunger & Pingree</a> in MUL.APIN <b>incorrectly</b> assigned to Perseus, whereas, of course, as I posted long ago at <a href="http://lexilinejournal.blogspot.com/2008/03/sumerian-babylonian-heliacal-node-stars.html" target="_blank">LexiLine</a>, it is correctly in Auriga.<br />
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The ancient connection of this system to the star <b>El Nath</b> is clearly evidenced in ancient sources which refer to the "middle-placed city" of <b>Anah</b> (<b>Figure 3</b>) as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anah" target="_blank"><b>Hanat or Anat viz. Anatho</b></a>. Indeed, there is also some correspondence in <b>Figure 1</b> between star names and the names of the geographic locations.<br />
<br />
<b>Gemini</b> was marked by the locations today known as <b>Tepe Gawra</b> and <b>Tell Brak</b> (Brak=Pollux), the latter site perhaps having "rooms" (similar to the <a href="http://lexiline.blogspot.com/2003/02/lexiline-journal-143-2003-malta.html" target="_blank">Temples of Malta</a>) that mirror the stars in this part of the sky, as the ancients saw them in those days. See the photo of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/TellBrakMitanni.jpg/640px-TellBrakMitanni.jpg" target="_blank">Tell Brak</a> at the Wikimedia Commons. <br />
<br />
Gemini in the broader geographic context of "hollow ways" corresponds here to the <b>Jaghjagh</b> catchment. See in this regard the discussion of hollow way systems and the man-made geometric patterns affiliated with them at Tony J. Wilkinson, <a href="http://www.archatlas.dept.shef.ac.uk/workshop/TWilkinson07.php" target="_blank">Ancient Near Eastern Route Systems: From the Ground Up</a>, Durham University, Department of Archaeology, Nov. 2007 where he writes:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #0b5394;">"Hollow way systems in the Fertile Crescent are generated, in part, by
movement of sheep, side-by-side. Humans walking to their fields as well
as wheeled vehicles also contribute to their development. They are
accentuated by fluvial erosion, usually, but not necessarily, from local
catchments. Part of a nodal pattern of movement around focal points of
long duration (such as tells)
Parallels occur from UK to Africa. Note, the nodal structure determines
pattern and processes influence scale."</span></blockquote>
Found at Tell Brak have also been also been several "twin" figurines, which could have perhaps marked Gemini as "the Twins" in ancient sculpture.<br />
<br />
<b>Cancer</b> was marked by Göbekli Tepe (maps in the next posting!). Cancer marked the Vernal Equinox ca. 7400 B.C., a date that very much corresponds to radiocarbon dating at Göbekli Tepe, a dating that I have long rejected because there were too many thousands of years after that with apparently no megalithic activity in the Ancient Near East, which seemed impossible.<br />
<br />
After an "early-dated" Göbekli Tepe, one expected to find a seamless record of later megaliths and dolmens serving as land survey markers, as calculated by
prehistoric astronomy and oriented to the stars and to the cardinal
points of the astronomical seasons. That is now perhaps a reality. Whether the actual megaliths at Göbekli Tepe date clear back to ca. 7400 B.C. still raises doubts, however. The site may be that old, but the megaliths there need not be.<br />
<br />
My decipherment now shows that early precursor sites such as Göbekli Tepe in fact had megalithic followers in an identifiable astronomical and land survey system in Mesopotamia, so that the early date can now be viewed as "possible", at least from my point of view, since the technology continued and did not simply vanish into thin air, which was an unacceptable conclusion.<br />
<br />
Much still remains to be researched here about how and why the megalithic development took the slow course that it took in the Ancient Near East, presuming it was already so well developed at such an early date as 7400 B.C.<br />
<br />
The Göbekli Tepe decipherment is found in the next posting.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-50182133882204771502013-06-04T11:05:00.002+02:002013-06-04T11:05:16.872+02:00The Mathematics of SurveyingAMS (American Mathematical Society) has two postings on the mathematics of surveying.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-surveying-one">The Mathematics of Surveying Part I</a> by Tony Phillips of Stony Brook University.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-surveying-two">The Mathematics of Surveying: Part II. The Planimeter</a> by Bill Casselman<br />
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-87615435807738393822013-05-17T19:01:00.001+02:002013-05-17T19:01:00.720+02:00Cartography and Digital Google MapsLeo Mirani has the story at The Atlantic in <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/why-the-new-google-maps-is-the-most-honest-form-of-cartography/275947/">Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography</a>. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-37761367299256745402012-05-29T21:03:00.001+02:002012-05-29T21:53:11.730+02:00Gerhard Mercator 500th Birthday Celebration Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 4 March to 26 August 2012<br />
The 500th Birthday of Gerhard Mercator is being celebrated this year in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium from 4 March to 26 August 2012. See <a href="http://mercatordigitaal.be/">mercatordigitaal.be</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-66651231104142375772012-05-18T18:55:00.001+02:002012-05-18T18:55:59.124+02:00Euratlas Periodis Web - Maps to be Used for the History of Europe<a href="http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/index.html?gclid=CJHrt9WmirACFQpd3wodHx_HQA">Euratlas Periodis Web - Maps to be Used for the History of Europe</a>: - Sent using Google ToolbarUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-33454697133879775372011-11-17T10:57:00.001+01:002011-11-17T10:57:54.123+01:00America Migration Within Its Own Borders: An Interactive Map and Visualization at Forbes by Jon Bruner<br />
At Forbes, John Bruner has an "interactive visualization" of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/11/16/migration-in-america/">Migration in America</a>
based on IRS data, which traces patterns of migration for every county
in the nation -- red/orange for "moving out" and blue/green for "moving
in".<br />
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See in this regard Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.federalreserve.gov%2Fpubs%2Ffeds%2F2011%2F201130%2F201130pap.pdf&ei=zNXETpjRGePV4QTqgqTBDQ&usg=AFQjCNFOxC9bWl_C5nRSuMnUXGQ0HG6EVg&sig2=64hX9i83vn2CjqVWM-phHg">Internal Migration in the United States</a>, [and <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nd.edu%2F%7Eawaggone%2Fpapers%2Fmigration-msw.pdf&ei=zNXETpjRGePV4QTqgqTBDQ&usg=AFQjCNEAjI41gmCS1y6wb3WGYh3pE6N-1Q&sig2=7u7Hm3AzT4niCXlihoBDsg">update</a>?] <span style="font-style: italic;">Finance and Economics Discussion Series</span>,
Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal
Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., 2011-30. NOTE: Staff working papers in
the Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS) are preliminary
materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. The
analysis and conclusions set forth are those of the authors and do not
indicate concurrence by other members of the research staff or the Board
of Governors. References in publications to the Finance and Economics
Discussion Series (other than acknowledgement) should be cleared with
the author(s) to protect the tentative character of these papers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[Our comment: There is in our mind no
excuse for the sloppy way in which the above papers are dated and
"marked". 2011-30 means nothing to an average reader. What is wrong with
giving the EXACT date of publication (day, month, year), while CLEARLY
MARKING on the first page that this is a so-called "WORKING PAPER", its
version ("Version 1" etc.), if applicable, etc. Authors and publishers
assist no one by adding confusion to the world through incomplete or
obscure identification of materials!]</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-47768369969975528702011-09-20T11:52:00.000+02:002011-09-20T11:52:30.450+02:00CommonCensus Sports Map<a href="http://www.commoncensus.org/sports_map.php?sport=5">CommonCensus Sports Map</a>: - Sent using Google ToolbarUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-19983213239082166622011-09-20T11:51:00.000+02:002011-09-20T11:51:53.490+02:00The Geography of College Football Fans (and Realignment Chaos) - NYTimes.com<a href="http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto">The Geography of College Football Fans (and Realignment Chaos) - NYTimes.com</a>: - Sent using Google ToolbarUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-28397314974371006982011-08-05T12:45:00.000+02:002011-08-05T12:45:39.983+02:00The Axe Majeur of Cergy-Pointoise in France: The Great Geodetic Work of François MitterrandSee "Cergy-Pointoise’s “Axe Majeur” and <a href="http://www.philipcoppens.com/axemajeur.html">Mitterrand’s Great – Unknown – Work</a>. Whether all of the speculations there are true or not, it is interesting reading.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-18799591657246912252011-08-05T01:29:00.000+02:002011-08-05T01:29:42.670+02:00What is a Topographic Map? - USGS Frequently Asked Questions<a href="http://www.usgs.gov/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=19&id=58&artlang=en&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">What is a Topographic Map? - USGS Frequently Asked Questions</a>: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-59133575179654130452011-06-29T20:14:00.000+02:002011-06-29T20:14:28.010+02:00The Beauty of Maps at the BBCThe <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/06/29/bbc-the-beauty-on-maps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29">Beauty of Maps</a> at BBC commented by BrainPickings.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-3108010499506939802011-04-14T19:18:00.001+02:002011-04-14T19:22:29.025+02:00Travel Search Deluxe and More at Rome2rio with Google Maps, Airfare, Train and Driving OptionsAlexia Tsotsis reports on a unique travel search site at <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/rome2rio-is-google-maps-with-airfare-train-and-driving-options/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29">Rome2rio Is Google Maps With Airfare, Train And Driving Options</a>.<br />
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Hat tip to CaryGEE.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-61888518360736440732011-04-01T19:25:00.001+02:002011-04-01T19:26:16.818+02:00Land Survey, Famous US Presidents, and Understanding the Land as a Prerequisite to Understanding HistoryWalter O'Brien, Staff Writer at the Asbury Park Press in <a href="http://www.app.com/article/CN/20110331/NJNEWS/110331018/1006/Bedminster-animal-shelter-benefit-from-food-drive/Land-surveyors-take-measure-our-lives?odyssey=nav%7Chead">Land surveyors take the measure of our lives | The Asbury Park Press | APP.com</a> writes:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #996633;">"Jeffrey Baldwin, a Hillsborough resident and licensed surveyor since 1991 who has been chief surveyor for the Somerset County Engineering Department for about six years, said that surveying is one of the world's oldest professions, dating to ancient Egyptians who mapped out parcels of land to assess taxes. Many historical figures, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, have been surveyors.<br />
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'We like to look up at Mount Rushmore and say that it's three surveyors and some other guy,'' Baldwin joked."</blockquote>There is a reason that America's greatest Presidents were previously land surveyors. You have to understand land to rule. I say that as someone who also worked on a land survey team in my college days. People who do not understand land survey can not understand the ancient past and that is why archaeologists and similar professions are often far off the mark in their theories.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-85206661836746127212011-03-12T20:25:00.000+01:002011-03-12T20:25:51.992+01:00Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis - CNN.com<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html">Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis - CNN.com</a>: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-17033823894313303372011-03-12T20:21:00.000+01:002011-03-12T20:21:06.834+01:00Maps and images of Antarctica — acuteaccent<a href="http://acuteaccent.com/maps-and-images-of-antarctica/">Maps and images of Antarctica — acuteaccent</a>: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-41315594708106964972010-09-27T12:21:00.000+02:002010-09-27T12:21:36.565+02:00The New World Order: A Map - Newsweek<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/26/the-new-world-order-a-map.html?from=rss">The New World Order: A Map - Newsweek</a>: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-18825167154183624302010-09-23T01:41:00.000+02:002010-09-23T01:41:57.251+02:00Nominate Your Favorite World Heritage Site - Intelligent Travel Blog at National Geographic<a href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/09/nominate-your-favorite-worl.html">Nominate Your Favorite World Heritage Site - Intelligent Travel Blog at National Geographic</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-49199851096120623642010-09-23T01:39:00.000+02:002010-09-23T01:39:40.131+02:00Index of Cartographic Images of Early Medieval Maps 400-1300 A.D.See <a href="http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html">Index of Early Medieval Maps</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-63409233233236594692010-09-23T01:35:00.000+02:002010-09-23T01:35:15.805+02:00Hereford Mappa Mundi, Hereford, United Kingdom : 14th Century Map of the World on CalfskinSee <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/20lz0A/atlasobscura.com/place/hereford-mappa-mundi/r:t">Hereford Mappa Mundi, Hereford, United Kingdom</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Hereford_Mappa_Mundi_1300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Hereford_Mappa_Mundi_1300.jpg" width="283" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900835170778486004.post-83079038616931434892010-08-03T13:12:00.000+02:002010-08-03T13:12:15.466+02:00Pacific Northwest Boating News: Ill-equipped sailors attempt Northwest Passage | Three Sheets Northwest<a href="http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/archives/11323">Pacific Northwest Boating News: Ill-equipped sailors attempt Northwest Passage | Three Sheets Northwest</a>: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0