PUBLIC MARKS with tag geo

Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage OpenBlock.

The tricky bit was figuring out where the phones are – GPS just isn’t accurate enough. I was inspired by the Junkyard Jumbotron – it puts markers on each phone, then you take a picture of them all. But in my app a marker would be way too small so instead I use a unique sequence of flashes.

The forest soil beneath the salt has been protected by layers of PVC, geotextiles and gravel. A drainage system collects the rain water mixed with the salt which will be pumped out whenever it’s necessary and reused.

This is a familiar drill, as heavy rains often carry mines across the border. In fact, dozens of them washed up in South Korea last year, killing one and injuring another.

Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language.

A simple RESTful web service. POST your text content - either plain text, or HTML pages or XML containing metadata - and get back a feed of the named places found in the text, with best guesses as to their locations.

The geocommit data consists of key/value pairs. Keys are

lowercase alphanumeric identifier including _ and -.

Values are numbers or strings not containing

linebreaks, commas and colons.

TOO MUCH gathers thoughts about cities, the people who live in them, and the changes affecting our society and our environment. It's a magazine about romantic geography.

China has unveiled its own version of an online mapping service to compete with Google Earth's popular satellite mapping service. "Map World" was unveiled by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping on Thursday.

The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. Clients issue requests to the server through structured URLs. The server responds with map images, text-based geographic information, or other resources that satisfy the request.