Archive For December, 2010

Revenge of the Map Unit

In my previous post, “When Scale Bars Lie”, I mentioned the dangerous things that can happen when the map unit is not set correctly. As I explained, it can lead to abnormal values, which are often manifested in scale bars.  This week, a friend of mine was using GIS to calculate the areas of some […]

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Standardized Browsing

As the old saying goes, “The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”.  HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are fairly ubiquitous web development tools, and there are plenty of standards surrounding them.  Sharing a web page with our visitors should be the easiest thing in the world.  Unfortunately, there are […]

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