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Microsoft now does softwear… So how about a T-Shirt with Bird’s Eye?

Today (1st December) is world AIDS day.  The AidsInAfrica.net site has an interesting animated map here which shows an interesting time animation of the increase in HIV infections.  It is sobering stuff and a nice example of the power of simple maps. 

Today (1st December) is world AIDS day.  The AidsInAfrica.net site has an interesting animated map here which shows an interesting time animation of the increase in HIV infections.  It is sobering stuff and a nice example of the power of simple maps. 

Here in Austria smoking is still alive and well as well as a favourite pastime.  Bars still have that wonderful fug of smoke and smoking in offices is still fairly common.  So far anti-smoking legislation has been resisted (apart from the odd token gesture). Seeing this Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett) web mapping application made me realise [...]

  A few people pointed out that in my resent post MapCruncher and the Stubaitalbahn my demo page did not work in IE8 beta 2.  It does work in IE8, but you need to use compatibility mode.  However I have discovered that many new IE8 users have not discovered compatibility mode yet!  As I have [...]

Tom Taylor has done a great post of “Eight ways to orientate yourself anywhere” .  There are some unusual ones there.  I love the satellite dish one, I had never really thought about that.

What’s this? Answer is here (one of my favourite blogs).

This blog post is an interesting evaluation of the support of different mapping applications on Chrome and IE8.  Chrome issues with SVG and Silverlight (not surprisingly!)

The Telegraph newspaper has a good story suggesting traditional map reading is a dying skill due to the increasing use of web mapping and sat navs.  I was impressed with how well researched it was.  I spend a lot of time walking in the mountains and still feel that paper maps and magnetic compass are [...]

Why you should never say what you really do at a party: See http://www.monster-munch.com/yup-this-happens-to-me-too/ Thanks to Nick Wade for the link.