Posts Tagged ‘maps’
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2019Google’s Road Map to Global Domination
Friday, July 7th, 2017$GOOG’s Road Map to Global Domination
http://www.NYTimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html Old article but discussion on #opendata v closed maps still relevant
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“O’Reilly is more skeptical. “An open-hardware play broke the IBM monopoly, an open-software play broke the Microsoft monopoly, and eventually an open-data play will prevail,” O’Reilly admits, but he points out that those earlier cases were not instances of direct competition between rival companies. “It wasn’t a plug-compatible mainframe clone that dethroned IBM; it wasn’t a free operating system like Linux that dethroned Windows.” Rather, he says, “it was this toy, the personal computer, it was the global operating system that we call the Internet.”
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Travel Guides & Local Maps | Discovery Map(R)
Monday, June 12th, 2017Holland Is Not A Dense Country, But An Empty City – Brilliant Maps
Monday, September 5th, 2016Holland isn’t a dense country but an empty city by @BrilliantMaps http://brilliantmaps.com/empty-netherlands/ Great inversion. NYC area seems a good comparable
42 maps that explain World War II – Vox
Friday, September 4th, 201542 maps that explain WWII
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii Has map w/ location of all London blitz bombs. Wow: been to many of these exact coordinates
40 maps that explain the Roman Empire – Vox
Friday, September 4th, 201540 #maps that explain the Roman Empire
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire Great animation of its rise & fall + Travel times to #Rome from the periphery
Datacenters in The Netherlands – Google Maps
Thursday, June 12th, 2014How wrong is your time zone: Map shows how far world clocks are from solar time.
Monday, February 24th, 2014#MAP: The wrongest #timezones in the world: SF, NY, London & Beijing are on “correct” time but not Moscow http://slate.me/Oqq0n8 HT @Slate