On 8/02/2010, at 8:44 AM, P Kishor wrote:
This is a brilliant post Nat. Thanks for sharing your insight. I do
want to add a caveat to this -- I hope this post is not taken as
ammo for *not* working toward open data.
Yes, I spoke for over an hour to the journalist from the Economist,
but
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Nathan Torkington nat...@torkington.com wrote:
On 8/02/2010, at 8:44 AM, P Kishor wrote:
This is a brilliant post Nat. Thanks for sharing your insight. I do
want to add a caveat to this -- I hope this post is not taken as ammo for
*not* working toward open
And, of course, the classic:
And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the
country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!
Have you used it much? I enquired.
It has never been spread out, yet, said Mein Herr: the farmers
objected: they said it would cover the whole
wow thanks to both! this is a trove!
http://3stages.org/c/gq.cgi?first=QAMAP
jorge luis borges, lewis carrol, gregory bateson, david foster wallace, ...
the crazy thing is we're building this 1:1 AR map. modern augmented
aeality is becoming precisely what lewis carrol said here: the
Mike,
Lewis Carrol was, in my opinion, fascinated by the apparent absurdities that
Mathematical concepts can generate when partnered with unbridled
extrapolation (or interpolation).
As a reality check I would say that
* we are not really creating maps; we make models of the real
Don't forget that we regularly see maps that are even larger scale than 1:1!
Xrays, circuit diagrams, CPU lithographs, organic chemical symbols.
And CAD normally deals with what is essentially a 1:1 map.
-Eric
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