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    <title>Surprise Maps: Showing the Unexpected</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-23T16:26:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The procedure for generating a Surprise Map is then:

Select a set of potential models for the data. Connected with each of these models is an initial belief (a Bayesian prior) about how likely this model is to be true. Initially, our models might be equiprobable: we have no strong initial guess as to what we expect to see.

Compare the expected distribution of data to the actual distribution. This allows us to estimate a likelihood that we would see our real data, if our model(s) were correct.

Using Bayes’ Theorem, calculate the posterior probability of each model. That is, how accurate is our belief in our model given the real data we just observed? (For example, that we are passing the class, or that Manitoba will have the same rate of mischief as Alberta.)

Calculate surprise as a difference between our prior and posterior probabilities, across all models. High surprise occurs when beliefs shift rapidly; low surprise occurs where there is not much change (we already knew we were failing, and this new ‘F’ grade doesn’t change our minds).

Visualize the surprise values. One can plot either total surprise or signed surprise (where we see if our surprise is caused by over- or under-estimation of the data). Negative surprise is where we see lower quantities than we were expecting, positive is where we see higher quantities than we expected.”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-01-25T07:01:53+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“This semester, Northeastern University’s history department is branching out into new territory: we’re beginning a large-scale digital project that is being implemented across several classes in the department. The goal of the project is to investigate urban and social change in the city of Boston using historical maps. We’re very excited to be partnering with the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library for this project.

This project was originally conceived as an offshoot of a group project from Prof. William Fowler’s America and the Sea course last spring. The original plan was just to think about how the waterfront changed, but it has expanded significantly in response to feedback from faculty in the department. Our focus has become both the topography and the culture of Boston, and how those two intertwine.

Our final product will be an interactive, layered series of historical maps with annotations that help to explore urban and social change across 250 years of Boston’s history. We’ll be building our map series in Leaflet, which we think is a beautiful and flexible medium for such a task.”]]></description>
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    <title>Oakland Represented Variously: What We See When We Map Oakland’s Inhabitants | Musings on Maps</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-24T06:34:27+00:00</dc:date>
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When it comes to public space, the East Bay and Oakland–despite a rich variety of parks, an estuary, and increasing vitality of Jack London Square–is a polycentric sprawl, its former downtown interrupted by freeways, and open boulevards dotted with closed commercial centers, beauty supply zones, or dense interchanges.  This is in part due to how little the diverse areas and neighborhoods of the city know themlsves.  How to map the inhabitants of Oakland, CA, given the considerable diversity across neighborhoods?  Does it exist as a unified social space, or what image of the city emerges?  By looking at some of the census maps of the city, and mining the range of information compiled in them by displaying their data in mapped form, we can process and digest the complexly variegated nature to view its population’s profile.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“That Shouldn't Be Possible ("tsbp") is an under development GPS trace analyzer for analyzing a GPS trace's correspondence with the routability of the OpenStreetMap database. Essentially it does what it says. You give it a GPS trace and it uses various pieces of information present in the trace (most importantly the timestamps) to tell you whether, according to the OpenStreetMap database, the route you took should be possible. Assuming the person was driving/cycling according to the rules of the road, a region of a trace that Shouldn't Be Possible is a good indication that something may be significantly wrong with the map in that area.
There is currently a prototype instance of tsbp running at http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/tsbp-proto which is only running with data for the British isles, Benelux, Iceland and South Africa (keeping a full planet updated requires significant processing resources I don't have yet).”]]></description>
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    <title>Fire up your editors - Introducing the Battle Grid</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-31T04:28:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“OpenStreetMap got started in the United States with a Big Bang: the import of TIGER 2005 data in late 2007. This import gave us nationwide street coverage in one fell swoop, and this gave OpenStreetMap a huge boost. The TIGER we imported was not without flaws, however. Many roads that are in TIGER do not really exist in reality or follow a different path altogether. Also, many new roads have been added in the eight years since the imported TIGER data was released. Here are some typical examples:

A new subdivision has been built that has not yet been mapped:

 

The imported old TIGER roads in OSM don't line up with reality:



…or seem to be conjured up out of thin air:



There are literally thousands upon thousands of areas where the data is in the bad shape we see in the images below. It was always difficult to find these areas - you had to more or less stumble upon them.

Until now. 

Introducing…the OSM versus TIGER Battle Grid!



Every dot in the grid is an area that is very likely to have one or more of the problems we have just seen. The bigger the dot, the more likely it is that the area needs some serious work! 

How can you help? Just click on a big yellow dot (the green ones are non-urban, most people care more about urban areas, but feel free to fix those as well of course!):



Click the link for your favorite editor to load the data. Then make sure you have Bing aerial imagery and the TIGER 2012 overlay visible, and start fixing stuff straight away!”]]></description>
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    <title>Data Exhaust — A Brief History of Null Island</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-28T05:14:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Following the awesome shirts that Ian Cairns and GNIP made for Null Island several folks have been asking where the idea came from.  My introduction to Null Island was when we were doing work with Stamen to build a custom set of base tiles for thematic mapping in GeoCommons.  As a surprise Mike Migurski added Null Island to the base maps so all our bad data would have a place to go.

Talking to Mike recently he said the original creator of Null Island was Steve Pellegrin of Tableau to describe “data goofs”.  Other interesting trivia about Null Island is the islands contours come from the island in the video game Myst.

After seeing the awesomeness Mike had added to the Acetate maps Andrew Turner had the perfect idea - make Null Island t-shirts.  Nathaniel Kelso did a second version while he was at Stamen.  Now we have the third version thanks to Ian.  There is also @NullIsland Twitter account and even a Republic of Null Island website by the originator of the name!  If I’ve missed any bits in Null Islands short but growing history please add on.”]]></description>
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    <title>Teaching 2nd Graders About Maps « A Cartographer's Toolkit</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-20T08:01:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gretchenpeterson.com/blog/?p=2776</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“I’m just back from teaching 70 2nd graders about maps and I am happy to report that I not only survived but I was duly impressed with their existing knowledge. I know there are several readers who volunteer their time in school classrooms. This post covers the content of the talk so that you can steal any ideas that would work for you. A previous post covered some general ideas.

These three topics were designed to take 5 minutes each.

Major Types of Maps Each student received one map card, of which there were three types. They held their card in their hand until they were called upon to show it. We discussed road maps first because these are the maps that students are most familiar with. Students raised their hands and told the class what you can do with a road map such as: figure out how to get to an aunt’s house, where the school is, or how long it takes to get somewhere. At the end of the road map discussion, I asked everyone with a road map card to hold it up. We discussed physical maps next. I held a relief map up and asked if anyone knew what the large blue area was (ocean), what the bumps are (mountains), and what the blue lines are (rivers). Everyone with a physical map card held theirs up. Last we discussed political maps. I explained this one, since it is a bit trickier. We talked about how political maps show the boundaries and names of countries, states, and cities, though they don’t have to show all of those things. Everyone with a political map card held it up. See the end of the post for links to the maps I created for these cards.

Webmaps Next, I told them about this fourth kind of map. We put a tourist map of Colorado on the smartboard and I asked for a helper to click the map layers on and off as I took suggestions from the students. They chose to look at trains, welcome centers, and hot springs. The helper figured out how to click layers on very easily. This particular map is nice and simple so it is easy to discuss. Next, I asked if any of the students had seen Google Maps (lots of hands) and we put that on the smartboard. One student asked to see where Grand Junction is in relation to Fort Collins so we typed those in and used Get Directions. They were impressed. We also did a show of hands for who had seen maps on cell phones, on car dashboards, and on tablet computers.

What Mapmakers Do We discussed how mapmakers need to decide what colors to make things, how to make the roads wider or narrower depending on how important they are, what shapes to make things (we pointed out the tree symbols used for parks on Google Maps), and other related topics. One student wanted to know how mapmakers figure out which mountains are which and where they are. I wasn’t prepared for such an astute question so I fumbled around with words about “map data” and satellites making the map data.”
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    <dc:date>2013-06-29T19:17:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://quattroshapes.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Foursquare needs quality place data to power its geocoding engine to ensure the best recommendations. When someone searches for the best coffee in Brooklyn, a simple venue to place point or venue to place bounding box search can result in venues in Manhattan and Jersey City overwhelming the results for Brooklyn.

To improve recommendations, we have created an authoritative source of polygons around a curated list of places. This gazetteer of non-overlapping polygons provides more relevant results than simple point geometries.

View preview images »

This work is based on foursquare checkins, geo tagged photos from Flickr, an extended version of Natural Earth, and open government data. Concordance is provided between quattroshapes, geonames.org, and Yahoo! GeoPlanet unique IDs in the gazetteer.

The quattroshapes technique calculates the dominant place ID for a given area based on heterogeneous inputs. This work is an extension of alphashapes and betashapes (thanks Aaron and Schuyler!) and is used to backfill countries without complete open data.

Geocoding can be the hardest part about going open source - and reverse geocoding is even harder. Reverse geocoding reports the gazetteer place for a latitude and longitude map location or address string and is useful when source data needs to be normalized. This new polygon gazetteer data is used in TwoFishes, the coarse splitting geocoder (and reverse geocoder) written in scala from David Blackman at foursquare.

The quattroshapes code and resulting 30 gb of data are licensed under CC-BY, but includes data licensed from many governments around the world. Check the License file for full details and limitations.

Enjoy!”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://prioleauadv.com/archives/473">
    <title>Beating the Block: How to take on Google Maps | Prioleau Advisors</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-18T06:14:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prioleauadv.com/archives/473</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Google Maps has a lot of strengths: great team, excellent distribution through the Google search, strong ad model, proprietary map data and so on. To compete, you need to neutralize at least some of those advantages. OSM is one possible game changer. Assuming it can overcome its issues (geocoding, license ambiguity and completeness), it shifts the competitive advantage from data ownership to services delivery. That neutralizes an advantage that Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building.  As a potential competitor to Google, do you start your own new map database or join to build out OSM? That’s the type of thinking it will take to match Google: how can you neutralize the seemingly invincible strengths that they have. Map data isn’t the only area: distribution, business model, partnerships…all have possible strategies. There’s room for a lot of creativity here, but today I don’t see people exercising that.”]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/vector-tile-river-map.html">
    <title>Nelson's Weblog: tech / vector-tile-river-map</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-21T16:52:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/vector-tile-river-map.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“American river map: a vector tile tutorial

I just completed a project I’ve been working on for a few weeks, a vector tile map of American rivers. It’s mostly a demo project with readable source, but it’s also kind of pretty.

There are three and a half products:

Web maps you can view in your browser. I made versions with Polymaps, Leaflet, and D3 (cribbing code from Mike Bostock). Jason Davies has an amazing Albers projection version and Ziggy Jonsson did a D3/Leaflet hybrid.

A GeoJSON vector tile server. It’s at http://somebits.com:8001/rivers/{z}/{x}/{y}.json You’re welcome to use it for light projects and demos, but it is not provisioned for heavy use.

A thoroughly documented tutorial on building a vector tile server. This is the real product, my goal was to learn about doing vector tiles in open source and sharing that with others. With this code it should be pretty easy for anyone to duplicate my map and adapt it to their own data.

Raster renders of every single river. It’s too much data to serve as a vector tile map, but it sure is pretty.

Vector maps are exciting. The proprietary map world is moving steadily towards vectors; pretty much all mobile maps are vector now and Google Maps is switching to vectors on the desktop. The open source and data world is getting there too. Thanks to Mike Migurski there’s now an experimental OpenStreetMap vector service that’s very promising. Also my personal thanks to Mike: the genesis of this project was getting an hour of his time.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>tiles vector vectortiles everyoneiknowismakingawesomeshit re:nelson openstreetmap hydrology NHD maps map mapping javascript code</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://ca.statewater.org/">
    <title>The New California Water Atlas</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T19:15:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ca.statewater.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Understand Water in California

Presenting real-time, interactive visualizations of how we use, manage and understand water in California. By visualizing and promoting water data for the state, we are making it possible to understand our cumulative usage of water and how this effects the many farms, individuals, governments, and businesses that rely on water availablity for healthy economies and ecosystems.

As the needs of our state shift with the changing demands placed on us by population growth and climate change, we want to give the gift of broad insight and clear communication to the many professionals and concerned citizens who work so hard to protect and deliver one of our most precious resources.

Water is a shared resource; as such, it is managed by the state on behalf of the people. To achieve our interdependent goals of healthy ecosystems, economies, farms and cities, we strive to bring you up-to-date, clear and accurate information to inform your decisions.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>CA water california everyoneiknowismakingawesomeshit stewartbrand resources map mapping atlas</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mapfart.com/">
    <title>mapfart.com · Mapfart API</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-20T05:53:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mapfart.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“A simple web service to take a geodata POST and try to make a map from it.
What do I need to install to use it?
Nothing... it just uses Curl
What the hell is Curl?
This service might not be for you...
When might this be useful?
In a headless situation (i.e. on a remote server) where you want to preview the geodata...
Then again... maybe it is totally useless...
What do I get?
Nothing... you POST. All kidding aside, you get a PNG image back.
What formats are supported?
Well, we dont actually "support" anything... this is a toy. If you want to try it out, send over GeoJSON, WKT, or WKB and cross your fingers.
What tools are being used?
GeoJSON is rendered using Mapserver, WTK and WKB are rendered via Geometry Tools (just for fun)
What was the inspiration?
Well, datafart.com of course.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>map maps mapping fart farts farting</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html">
    <title>Spherical Mercator — OpenLayers</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-22T18:01:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This document describes the Spherical Mercator projection, what it is, and when you should use it. It includes some background information, demonstration of using the code with just a commercial layer, and how to add a WMS over the top of that layer, and how to reproject coordinates within OpenLayers so that you can reproject coordinates inside of OpenLayers. It is expected that readers of this tutorial will have a basic understanding of reprojection and a basic understanding of OpenLayers.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>sphericalmercator mercator webmercator projection gis map maps mapping proj 900913</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://dawn.com/2012/11/21/pakistanis-lost-without-maps/">
    <title>Pakistanis lost without maps | DAWN.COM</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-24T06:28:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dawn.com/2012/11/21/pakistanis-lost-without-maps/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The Ministry of Defence is about to declare mapping illegal in Pakistan. The federal cabinet, Pakistan’s foremost civilian authority, is willingly giving up a civic task to agencies that report to Pakistan’s Armed Forces.

The proposed Land Surveying and Mapping Bill 2012 will entrust all mapping responsibilities in Pakistan to the Survey of Pakistan (SoP), which supposedly reports to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), but effectively takes its orders and cues from the General Head Quarters. Consider that the Surveyor General of Pakistan is often a serving or retired General, who leads the organisation that is not open to scrutiny by the civilian authorities.

The proposed Bill will require all government or private agencies involved in surveying and mapping to register themselves with the SoP. Failing to do so will result in one-year imprisonment and a fine of up to one million rupees. The Bill further threatens imprisonment and fines up to five million rupees to office bearers of firms who do not comply with the directives of the SoP. The Bill will restrict mapping responsibilities to the SoP in the public sector, thus eroding decades of development work in geo-spatial analytics by several provincial government and municipal authorities.

The Bill enables the SoP to ask the Police to register a criminal case against an individual firm or a person who is found developing maps independent of the SoP. Furthermore, the SoP will recover funds received by anyone found developing geo-spatial solutions without the SoP’s blessings. For instance, if the Higher Education Commission awards a grant to a professor at a university to do research using geo-spatial data, and if the professor fails to register his research plan with the SoP, the University would have to give up funds to SoP while the professor could be jailed and fined. Even the Federal Bureau of Revenue cannot keep the funds it recovers from defaulters.

The provisions of the proposed Bill constitute a serious threat to civil liberties, intellectual freedom, freedom of expression, and pursuit of knowledge in Pakistan. The Bill, as it stands today, will curb operational freedom of several federal and provincial agencies, and will handicap all municipal governments in their ability to deliver services to their constituents. The Bill will also restrict several international humanitarian agencies from providing relief to millions of internally displaced Pakistanis who have been effectively abandoned by the State. And lastly, the Bill will force internal and external donors to channel all funds for mapping and spatial data production to the SoP, further extending the Armed Forces unwelcome control over civic matters and resources. If civilian rule in Pakistan is to flourish, this law must not be enacted.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>pakistan maps mapping data geography gis law politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://localwiki.org/blog/2012/oct/10/localwiki-antarctica/">
    <title>Antarctica like you've never seen it before</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-11T02:21:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://localwiki.org/blog/2012/oct/10/localwiki-antarctica/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“ Searching through the USGS Earth Explorer didn't turn up anything near the quality of this NASA photo of the day image. Hunting around different NASA websites didn't seem to give many clues, either. The best clue was the photo caption from the Photo of the Day, which read:

[...] greeting to scientists and flight crew aboard NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory as it flew over the station during Operation Ice Bridge.
After even more digging around, I stumbled upon the FTP site where NASA was hosting Operation Ice Bridge images. Presumably, the image from the NASA Photo of the Day would be in there — and hopefully a bunch of great shots of the surrounding area. The only problem was that the FTP site had many, many directories, each with thousands of files:


I experimented with downloading a few random images and plotting them in QGIS, but it quickly became clear that downloading all of the hundreds of thousands of images and plotting them using this way just wasn't going to work — there were too many images, we didn't have the many, many terabytes of required space, and the GeoTIFFs quickly overloaded QGIS. Alex Mandel recommended trying to find a pattern in the filenames — but after working on the problem for a bit we didn't seem to get anywhere.

So we ended up writing a little FTP client to grab just the few Kb of each file, which ended up being enough to get the location metadata out of the GeoTIFFs. With that, we could easily import the location of every image:



...and then start plotting them on a map, revealing airplane's flight path:


The red dot is the research station.
Getting there... after plotting a few hundred thousand other data points:


The red dot is the research station.
Sweet! It looks like there's quite a few images around the station! So there's some hope we can piece together a great aerial map of the region.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>gdal antarctica aerial via:sha palmer maps mapping nasa nearblack raster imagery</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mapsforhumans.com/2012/10/the-moscow-map-redesign/">
    <title>The Moscow map redesign | Maps for humans</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-05T18:20:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mapsforhumans.com/2012/10/the-moscow-map-redesign/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After many experiments and trials to make Yandex.Maps design clear I can say the one of the significant steps of the big work is done.

We redesigned the map of Moscow at Yandex. The following targets has been set:

Ensure maximum “readability” of a map image;
Keep recognizable color palette of a map image (the colors of map design currently used, warm colors, are widely associated with Yandex.Maps brand);
Provide greater visibility and readability for various types of overlay layers;
Ensure that information, important for visual navigation, such as contours of widely know geographic places, or text labels, will be readable and usable according to common usage scenarios;
When printing black and white map images, a resulting print should not lose the details important for visual navigation;
A design of map image should employ a concept, based on two common scenarios from the web maps: a displaying of standalone map image and a displaying of map image as a background for some information (traffic jams, POI, special overlays).
We have done the important stage of the project.  We talked to designers, engineers and other smart guys during all time of the project. We achieved a lot of experience of mapping design. 
For example, at the the begining of the project we collaborated with Stamen. These cool guys helped us pick main issue definitions, refine ideas, get important recommendations what to improve. We implemented it into final design.

So, let take a look to the Before and After comparisons:

]]></description>
<dc:subject>stamen maps client yandex russia cartography project beforeafter mapping</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehire/1412.aspx">
    <title>The Knowledge | Transport for London</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:21:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehire/1412.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All licensed London taxi drivers need to pass a special test before they can drive one of the Capital's famous black cabs. This test is called the Knowledge.

How long it takes to become a licensed taxi driver depends on whether you want to be an All-London driver or a Suburban driver.

London or the suburbs?

All-London drivers - also known as Green Badge drivers - need a detailed knowledge of London within a six mile radius of Charing Cross.

All-London drivers' Knowledge is based on learning 320 routes (or runs). This will help them learn the 25,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks and places of interest in the six mile radius of Charing Cross.

It takes between two and four years to pass the All-London Knowledge. Once you are licensed you can work anywhere in the Greater London area.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>taxi london education routing mapping</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:963eec705cdc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2012-March/024456.html">
    <title>[OSM-dev] release of full-history extracts</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-05T19:17:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2012-March/024456.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I generated a new charge of history extracts, based on the 120213 full 
history dump. They have been created from the latest 
full-experimental-dump [1] using my history splitter [2], based on 
Jochen Topfs really great osmium framework [3]. They contain multiple 
versions of an object. If you just want the map-data as it is today, use 
the Geofabrik-Extracts [4].

The extracts can be downloaded from a server of my employer:
<http://osm.personalwerk.de/history-extracts/>

Their size ranges from very small (a village) via medium (Berlin) to 
large (Germany), touching various countries. They only cover a very, 
very small part of the world and are currently targeted at application 
developers that are looking for data to test their history analysis 
apps. Most extracts are delivered as .osh.pbf files, readable with all 
history-enabled pbf parsers (eg. osmium).

Some extracts are also available in the .osh.bz2 format (xml-basesd). 
Some common programs like JOSM can open them them when you rename them 
to .osm, but the produced output is not very useful in most cases.

In contrast to the last set of extracts, the new ones are now cuttet 
using the softcut algorithm [6] using simple bounding-boxes [5].

Dumps created using that algorithm have the following characteristics:
  - ways are complete (as they are in the api-database)
  - ways are reference-complete (all referenced points are included)

  - relations are complete (as they are in the api-database)
  - relations are NOT reference-complete (relations may reference ways
    or nodes that are not in the extract)

  - relations referring to relations that come later in the file are
    included

  - all versions of an object of which one version touched the bbox are
    included
]]></description>
<dc:subject>osm openstreetmap history extracts data map mapping maps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:3c974024957b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://domusweb.it/en/interview/the-importance-of-being-axonometric/">
    <title>The importance of being axonometric - interview - Domus</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-23T06:50:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://domusweb.it/en/interview/the-importance-of-being-axonometric/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What are the relations between digital cartography and hand-drawn maps?
The science is dividing the field of knowledge into disposable knowledge and reusable knowledge. Google maps are falling into the first category, while axonometric maps belong to the second, because they're suitable for being reused. An 11-year-old hand-drawn map still looks beautiful, whereas 11 years from now Google maps will be dated. Google and others are failing to present the beautifulness of our planet to us when doing their digital atlases.

Are you familiar with Baidu? The Chinese can't show satellite images of their cities so they model these detailed axonometric cityscapes.
Baidu shows very beautiful representations, similar to hand-drawn maps. They're like the depiction of a promise, telling you that it's a beautiful country to live in, whether it's true or not.

Reparieren leicht gemacht (1972), Verlag Das Beste, Stuttgart, 23 x 26 cm, 568 pp
Do you think the actual possibility of processing big datasets will affect other fields of visual design beyond data representation?
The digital has had a great impact not only on the production of information, but also on how to get to the sources. But this speed comes at a cost that shouldn't be underestimated, and that cost is precision. In the early days, information designers controlled the entire process and physically possessed the information. Nowadays, if you're doing a data visualisation using bytes that aren't on your hard drive, or that you don't even own, then you're dependent on other people. That's the digital drawback. The moment authoritarian countries decide to cut the wires, all the knowledge will be gone.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>visualization cartography mapping interview infographics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:c4c5a2aed81e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157628875655537/with/6699565349/">
    <title>Oakland Policy Plan - a set on Flickr</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-15T18:47:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157628875655537/with/6699565349/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oakland Policy Plan for 1980, scanned by Eric Fischer]]></description>
<dc:subject>maps mapping eastbay oakland history plan 1980 80s landuse urbanplanning flickrset</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:099e10ea1d61/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma">
    <title>Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps - Nestoria UK Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-26T19:58:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.nestoria.co.uk/why-and-how-weve-switched-away-from-google-ma</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fellow Nestoria fans, this week we went live with a significant change to our service - in most countries we've moved away from Google maps and are now relying exclusively on OpenStreetMap maps served by MapQuest.

...

At the time, looking at Steve as he showed me the GPS device he was using to map the details of our meeting (which took place in a little cafe in Soho across the street from the John Snow pub), the idea of creating a viable map via volunteer submissions seemed preposterous in the extreme. But I watched as OSM grew and grew from those humble beginnings. Now, less than six years later, that map powers Nestoria thanks to millions of man hours of contribution by individuals and organizations that recognize the power of open data."]]></description>
<dc:subject>openstreetmap osm map mapping nestoria tiles cartography mapquest</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:c47a0433090e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kmjn.org/notes/geographically_dense_wikipedia.html">
    <title>Geographically densest Wikipedia coverage</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-22T20:58:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kmjn.org/notes/geographically_dense_wikipedia.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wikipedia articles can be tagged with latitude/longitude coordinates. I was recently curious to know: which areas have the most coverage? It's important not to read too much into the answer, because the density of coordinates is due to a mixture of: how active different Wikipedia language projects are, how active at geo-tagging they are, which regions have had lots of short articles mechanically imported (e.g. on small towns, or metro stations), and finally, the actual landmark density (e.g. dense urban cores versus sprawling suburbs). But nonetheless it might be interesting to know.<br />
<br />
So, here are the most densely Wikipedia-article-populated parts of the world, at several scales."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:fakeisthenewreal geo geography wikipedia polymaps coverage maps mapping map cities knowledge history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/">
    <title>building=yes: a searchable and linkable index of every single building in OpenStreetMap</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-17T05:28:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://buildingequalsyes.spum.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["building=yes is a searchable and linkable index of every single way tagged building=yes in OpenStreetMap (OSM).<br />
<br />
A web page for every building in OpenStreetMap!<br />
<br />
You can link to buildings using their 64-bit building=yes identifier or their OSM way ID.<br />
<br />
Each building has been tagged with one or more Where On Earth (WOE) IDs so you can also search for buildings by place."]]></description>
<dc:subject>everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit re:straup via:shashashasha osm openstreetmap solr building atkinson map maps mapping world equalsyes</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_do_you_map_in">
    <title>&quot;How do you map in ...?&quot; Novosibirsk, Siberia</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-09T17:06:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_do_you_map_in</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a tough question here, in Novosibirsk, where almost all PC users know 2gis, the desktop city map/yellow pages with a huge business database and public transport routing. It's free to get and to list your business, but completely closed source, both data and the software. ... This model was invented in 1998 and is pretty outdated, but all together still manages to satisfy the users.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
So, Novosibirsk is their native city. Everyone knows 2gis. When someone needs to go somewhere, they open 2gis and search the address.<br />
<br />
I find few areas and people who could be interested in using and contributing to OSM. It's a tough question. That's why last several months I have been drawing rural areas and small towns, the places in which 2gis will never be interested, or will have not enough resources to map."]]></description>
<dc:subject>osm map mapping howto novosibirsk russia siberia openstreetmap walkingpapers process community</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.metafilter.com/103057/Cartography-Geeks#3666805">
    <title>Levels of Boston navigation: by street name, by landmark, by used-to-be, by was-gonna-be</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-02T07:03:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.metafilter.com/103057/Cartography-Geeks#3666805</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yay, I get to explain my 'Levels of Boston Navigation', developed as I tried to learn my way around Boston...:<br />
<br />
Level 0 - Navigation by street name) You find where you want to go on the map, and write out the route Google-maps style.<br />
Level 1 - Landmarks) You learn where key landmarks are, and the names of some of the larger 'squares'.<br />
Level 2 - Used-to-be) After you've been in the City for a while, you learn to give and take directions based on what used to be at an intersection.<br />
Level 3 - Gonna) The most advanced level. Involves giving directions based on what they were going to build, but never actually did."]]></description>
<dc:subject>boston directions bostonography metafilter navigation mapping</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:45273aa09525/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.infoalamedacounty.org/index.php/Research/Crime-Safety/Crime-Research/Oakland-Police-Department-Crime-Analysis-Partnership.html">
    <title>Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Police Department develop smarter policing</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-29T06:29:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.infoalamedacounty.org/index.php/Research/Crime-Safety/Crime-Research/Oakland-Police-Department-Crime-Analysis-Partnership.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Following a two-year pilot program sponsored by Council member Desley Brooks, and with the support of Chief Anthony Batts, Urban Strategies Council has come on board to assist the Oakland Police Department with crime mapping and analysis in late 2010, helping the entire department develop new crime prevention tactics, usable mapping, and resource management. Junious Williams, the CEO, said, 'This type of public-private partnership is critically important to effectively tackling social problems like crime. We look forward to establishing similar partnerships with other public agencies.'<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
Since the inception of this partnership, the first in the entire state, the Council has been delivering valuable crime analysis and mapping to key police personnel on a weekly basis. This intelligence is tailored to meet the distinct needs of Oakland law enforcement and supports dozens of senior department staff and beat officers on the job."]]></description>
<dc:subject>gis via:tomc maps map oakland crime mapping geography police partnership urbanstrategies data</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.nestoria.com.au/nestoria-interview-zain-memon-from-tendermaps">
    <title>&quot;NoGIS&quot; - Zain Memon from TenderMaps</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-19T03:15:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.nestoria.com.au/nestoria-interview-zain-memon-from-tendermaps</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sha has coined the term 'NoGIS' to describe the work of mapping technologists like myself who don't have a traditional GIS background (as a nod to the NoSQL movement away from traditional databases). Software like Mapnik and Polymaps have done so much to make it easy for even inexperienced developers to make large GIS applications without the steep learning curve of ArcGIS and CAD software. That's the direction I see our field moving towards: map technology built explicitly for the web, rather than traditional mapping concepts ported to the web."]]></description>
<dc:subject>zainmemon nogis gis maps mapping code tendermaps movity re:shashashasha via:mikel_maron walkingpapers tilestache modestmaps</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:3e830ccc0026/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/a-personal-map-of-2010/">
    <title>Andy Woodruff's personal map of 2010</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-04T00:13:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/a-personal-map-of-2010/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The most valuable thing about this habit, though, is not the post-mapping analysis but rather the motivation it generates to get out and explore and get to know new parts of the city. I'm sure you can imagine the thrill of getting to draw a line on a new part of the map. Doing all this without GPS keeps my mind sharp, too, because I must always be aware of exactly where I am so that I can later mark it on the map. My local expertise in transportation and geography is skyrocketing because of this little project."]]></description>
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    <title>Eric Fischer's Personal geography of 2010 on Flickr</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-04T00:11:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5319240762/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In general, black is walking, red is bicycling, blue is cars or buses, and green is above-ground rapid transit or freeways. Not shown: tunnels and subways."]]></description>
<dc:subject>gps everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit map mapping 2010 year records personalinformatics via:piggiston</dc:subject>
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    <title>How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Epidemic (PBS MediaShift Idea Lab)</title>
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    <link>http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/12/how-openstreetmap-helps-to-curb-haitis-cholera-epidemic342.html</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive and up-to-date way.

Guensmork Alcin is attempting to change this. He is working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to expand OpenStreetMap, a free and open source map of the world that has one of the most detailed GIS data sets in existence on Haiti."
]]></description>
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    <title>The Tyranny of Place and OpenStreetMap</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-10T22:27:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://povesham.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/the-tyranny-of-place-and-openstreetmap/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Muki Haklay:
"In the presentation, which is based on my work, as well as the work of Vyron Antoniou and Nama Budhathoki, we argue that geography is playing a 'tyrannical' role in OSM and other projects that are based on crowdsourced geographical information and shapes the nature of the project beyond what is usually accepted."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>sotm osm mapping geography worldview openstreetmap slideshare slides presentation ucl</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://countercartographies.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/3cs-in-chicago-part-1/">
    <title>Counter-Cartographies Collective in Chicago (part 1)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-20T19:11:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://countercartographies.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/3cs-in-chicago-part-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Liz and Tim are in Chicago giving a series of mapping workshops and making contact with some of our collaborators up there.

...

One big point of discussion was how to deal with the embedded biopolitics behind data sources like US Census data that we use in our maps - as 3Cs, we often talk about how we 'queer' data or statistics by pulling map stories out of them that they weren't intended for. But data sources often come so tightly bound up with state politics, white supremacist racial policies, definitions of family structure, etc., that queering them might require more conscious work than we always put in."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>data cartography maps mapping education community politics unc</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fundraising for Gulf Oil Mapping on Kickstarter</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-29T17:20:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jywarren/grassroots-mapping-the-gulf-oil-spill-with-balloon/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jeff Warren is raising money for his ongoing aerial kite mapping in the Gulf:
"We are a group of citizens and activist mappers who are documenting the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast with a set of novel DIY tools -- we send inexpensive cameras up in helium balloons and kites, and take aerial photos from up to 1500 ft. The data we're gathering will be vital in both the environmental assessment and response, as well as in the years of litigation following the spill. All the imagery we capture is released into the public domain and is free to use or redistribute.

We need support to keep a supply of helium, and to pay for gas, kites, cameras, and protective gear for our volunteers."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funding everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit grassrootsmapping aerialimagery mapping photography photo kickstarter</dc:subject>
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    <title>A treatise on plane surveying</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-29T07:04:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://books.google.com/books?id=SXwPAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA9&amp;ots=r3SV5fTWQY&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This work as its name indicates extends over the field of plane surveying. It illustrates and describes the instruments employed, their adjustments and uses; it exemplifies the best methods of solving the common problems occurring in practice and furnishes solutions for many special cases which not unfrequently present themselves. An experience of twenty years in the field and in technical schools confirms the opinion that a work of this kind should be eminently practical; that the student who desires to become a reliable surveyor needs frequently to manipulate the various surveying instruments iu the field to solve many examples in the class-room, and to exercise good judgment in all these operations. With this in view, therefore, the different methods of surveying are treated, directions for using the instruments are given, and these are supplemented by numerous examples to be solved, by various field exercises to be performed, and by many queries to be answered.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>survey mapping maps history book howto guide</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cartagen Knitter</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-23T03:04:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cartagen.org/maps</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Use Cartagen Knitter to upload your own aerial imagery and 'knit' a map. Everything you create with this tool is owned by you; read more at GrassrootsMapping.org.

Watch a short video demo of how to use this tool..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>maps code warp mapping photography photo aerial</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Digital Divide of OpenStreetMap</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-28T20:51:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://povesham.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-digital-divide-of-openstreetmap/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Muki Haklay on socieconomic diversity in OSM:
"Instead of shrinking, the gap between affluent and deprived LSOAs (Lower Level Super Output Area) is growing. The average completeness of the bottom percentile in March 2008 was 40.7%, grew to 65.7% a year later and to 71.8% by October 2008. For the most affluent percentile, completeness grew from 67.5% in March 2008 to 97.0% a year later and to 108.9% by October 2009. In other words, the gap between the top and the bottom has grown from 26.6% to 37.1% within the analysis period."

I say make a game out of it.
]]></description>
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    <title>Cartographer.js</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-21T18:34:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thematic mapping for Google Maps - uses Raphael JS and the Google Maps API to do few basic cartography tricks: choropleths, dot plots, etc.
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<dc:subject>via:indiemaps javascript code drawing raphaeljs gmaps maps mapping library visualization thefuturestaringyouintheface</dc:subject>
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    <title>Lohnes Wright</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-11T19:11:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lohneswright.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><dc:subject>cartography oakland bayarea mapping design firm bart</dc:subject>
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    <title>Experimental Geography</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-05T08:43:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/03/express/experimental-geography-from-cultural-production-to-the-production-of-space</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><dc:subject>trevorpaglen geography cartography art mapping</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:migurski/b:76735bc4f158/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Capturing Glocality: Online Mapping Circa 2005</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-16T03:44:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2009/01/pdfs/ParsonsJournalForInformationMapping_Behar-Katherine.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>migurski</dc:creator><dc:subject>journal article mapping surveillance google thingsinformationlize cartography academic capture</dc:subject>
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