Wikileaks Map: US List of Critical Sites
Yesterday’s release detailing sites considered “critical” to the US is of much interest to political scientists. Just who does the US rely on most? A...
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18th Century Congestion Charging
Paying to use London’s roads is not a new idea. I have just come across a map showing turnpike gates (tolls) which were like the 18th Century equivalent of...
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Amazing Historical Maps
The David Rumsey Map Collection is my new favorite website. It has over 24,000 historical maps available online. What’s more is that the maps can be embedded in...
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ArcGIS Desktop 10 Service Pack 1
ESRI have released the first service pack for ArcGIS 10. The list of fixes is enormous and having encountered several of the bugs so I would highly recommend you...
Read MoreInstalling rgdal on Mac OS X
******Roger Bivand has kindly just emailed me to say: “Your 2 November blog about rgdal on OSX is very misleading. The CRAN rgdal...
Read MoreMercator Vs Peters Projection
Another “Rethinking the Power of Maps” inspired post. Many people view maps as realistic and impartial views of the world, but this is not correct. Maps are...
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spatial.ly is written and curated by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.