“I've been using Google Maps for years, but I was tired of the distractions.
#Google Maps has so many ads and pins, with labels galore and a map so detailed with points of interest that it's distracting to the point of sometimes being overwhelming”
#DLR now finds it ok to spill #AI slop allover their article, which provides no information whatsoever about what kind of "AI" model was used, not to mention details. Where exactly is such "intelligence" hidden?
Missing technical information that would make it interesting from a technical point of view, the article becomes just another piece of similar boring press releases that use "AI" as a buzzword for anything involving pattern recognition and neural networks.
"The experience motivated the two Rice University students to create a digital map documenting U.S. Immigration Customs Agency activity, and awareness around their project has been growing since it went live in June."
When you search locations by category (clothing shop, coffee bar, museum etc) it shows all locations at once. Except for corporations and chains, they get a grey dot.
A pine box is open to reveal four interior compartments for storing a set of four intricate napkin rings. Each napkin ring has its own chocolate brown silvercloth pouch. Two napkin rings have been removed from the box and their pouches and placed next to those still in the box.
The “what’s your map” podcast has this gem of an episode.
Smuggling Silk: WWII Escape Maps with Dr. Barbara A. Bond
“Together, they pour over an important but unassuming silk escape map of Danzig (Gdansk) port from World War II. What information is presented on the map, and what has been intentionally excluded?“
The show notes has a link to the map, which you really should peruse while you’re listening to it.
Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.
> Public terrain tiles for interactive web map visualizations
Very nice consolidated terrain tiles from public DEM data, covering (almost ?) the whole globe. May try to use it in my maps soon.
For France, it uses the RGE Alti (5m and 1m) models from the IGN (which contains updates from Lidar data, but maybe not the latest and highest resolution).
"As Juerg Gilgen, a current cartographer at Swisstopo, told me “as a matter of fact, the proof-reader is also just a human being prone to failure. And cartographers are also just human beings trying to fool around.”"
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (https://mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.
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Super that
@organicmaps can now be set as default app for navigation! However, when selecting addresses in Apple Calendar, the message still appears that no default app is installed (or Apple Maps still opens if it is still installed on the iPhone). #ios#maps#navigation
For map nerds everywhere, fabulous interactive route planner of the Roman empire. The map includes nearly 300,000 kilometres of roads existing in around ad 150, when the empire was at its maximum territorial extent.
What's your favourite or rather most efficient way of turning an existing map (usually too complicated for game use - or cluttered) into a neat condensed vector (or anything I suppose) map for a game?
I have lots of 1880s-1920s maps I want to simplify for use, and cant decide if should try to vectorise them in Illustrator then tidy up, or scan them and trace over them by hand.. or what.
Has anyone encountered this before? It's my 'Lettering Locations' bucket list map and I haven't received any notification about this before logging on today to find it locked.
Is there any way to find out more about the violation/fix it/appeal?
Screenshot of a Google Maps branded screen with a locked file graphic and text that reads "Unavailable. This map is no longer available due to a violation of our Terms of Service and/or policies."