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I was just planning our route for a trip to the inlaws on Google Maps, and I saw that there’s a nice new feature:

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via Foxnews.com:
Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, “America” was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a world that Europeans had yet to name or explore.
Sometimes called America’s birth certificate, the map and accompanying 103-page “Cosmographiae Introductio” caused the hemisphere to be named [...]

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I just received a link to an animated map showing 5000 years of imperial history covering the Middle East.
The animation is a shockwave file, and it’s from the Maps of War site.

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For the last couple of days I’ve been trying out a new Web 2.0 application that is “all about location. It’s a free web service that shows you who’s around and let’s you IM them”. Apostrophe misuse aside, it is an interesting idea.
The site is radiusIM.com. It’s free and currently in Alpha, so it’s [...]

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This was announced way back last month, but I’m just now getting dug out from the end of year avalanche.
gvSIG was mentioned in the comments on a post on uDIG I wrote back in May of last year. I haven’t found the time to check it out, but wanted to pass along the announcement. [...]

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