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Using and understanding the world-wide city database data

Saturday, October 17, 2009

One of the most popular pages on this blog is a post I wrote two years ago titled “World wide cities database and other free geospatial data“. There are still few people out there who realize that not only can you get a free world-wide cities database from the national geospatial ingelligence agency in the [...]

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Dymaxion Map – we’re all connected

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Here’s a new way of looking at the world. It’s called a Dymaxion Map or Fuller Projection, invented by Buckminster Fuller in 1946. This particular views shows all our land masses connected – it makes the world look as small as it’s becoming.

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