Links: Satellites Spy on DC, Tor, Real Time Mapping

Posted on December 14, 2008 | Leave a comment

Trading Bronze Age Technology: Before the BlackBerry, before the iPhone, before e-mailing, texting and instant messaging, was an ivory-hinged boxwood writing board.

Thematic Mapping Presentation: Bjørn Sandvik is doing some of the most interesting work on thematic mapping, which is why he was recently invited to give a presentation on his mapping engine at Google.

Satellites Spy on DC: Some of the first images to be collected by the GeoEye 1 satellite that can “see” objects on Earth as small as a 0.41 meters in size in black-and-white mode or 1.64 meters in color.

Tor Makes Anonymized Content Available to All: A new website serves as a portal to the underworld of anonymized content posted through the Tor network.

Map of Casualties in Afghanistan: The International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) has published a map of civilian, military and insurgent fatalities in Afghanistan from January to November 2008. The data is gathered from publicly recorded attacks.

Decentralized Data Collection and Real Time Mapping: How can you get real time data from food security organizations operating on the ground in Africa into the hands of decision makers working to prevent famines based in Washington, DC? Ask my colleagues at DevelopmentSeed.

Video Shows Every Flight on Earth in 72 Seconds: Stunning videos that remind me of food web dynamics (feeding relations) in ecosystems.

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