Tuesday, July 4, 2006

INTERACTIVE VISUAL USER INTERFACES : http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/fionn/papers/fm5.pdf.

Mapyrus Project : http://mapyrus.sourceforge.net/mapyrus.pdf (Tutorial and Cookbook).

WMS Tile Caching : http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WMS_Tile_Caching

Experimental Navigation and the Creative Process : http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/artweb/CDE/images/mfa_images/pdf/engle_thesis.pdf

Flickr Grab : http://flickr.trulyamazing.de Get the most interesting pictures for a search. Like Flickr Leech

Mapping terminology and acronyms : http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/reports/misc/glossary.html

Cubism and Abstract Art Map :
http://www.cricketschirping.com/CubismAndAbstractArt/
(clickable imagemap version).

"Mapping remains one the most basic human instincts - the desire to position oneself and others within a schema of location and relationship. But, driven by both unprecedented accessibility of technology, and a society increasingly unwilling to accept on face value knowledge systems handed down from on high, mapping is also one of the most significant strands in the emergent world of digital culture." : http://10.futuresonic.com/off_the_map.html

Abbey Library (of St. Gall, Switzerland) : http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en online

Why 'Greater Israel' Never Came to Be : http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=105610 and Map : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/special/dynamic/20050812-gaza.jpg Via : http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2005/08/21/gaza/

“My work became an exploration of non-intention. To carry it out faithfully I have developed a complicated composing means using I-Ching chance operations, making my responsibility that of asking questions instead of making choices.” - John Cage (autobiographical statement; http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.htmll) embraces structured randomness and chance in his work, giving his musicians directions but no map.

Understanding Image Files and Compression : http://www.shortcourses.com/how/files/files.htm

Engaging a variety of tools and media such as blogs, video documentation, maps, field recordings & interviews, Glowlab creates a multi-layered portrait of the block as it has never been seen before http://oneblockradius.org/obr.html [and will never be seen again] .

"Art is the proper task of life." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan
"I'm a war, of head versus heart, and it's always this way.
My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say." - ?
"What you see (in your mind's eye) is what you get. Proof: What you saw is pretty much what you got!" - Joe Klock
"It's important to remember that behind every map produced was someone waiting to be paid." - Mary Pedley (paraphrased)

Map poem : http://www.deviantart.com/view/19691042/
Do a prototype with http://disequilibrium.com/panpm/ Google-like tile zoomer.

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