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Don de deux globes du XVIIIe siècle à la Bibliothèque nationale
Jean Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) Globe terrestre dédié à la duchesse du Maine , 1728 Globe céleste dédié au comte de Clermont , 1730 D. 32,5 cm (46 avec la table d’horizon) H. 55 cm Photo : Didier Rykner 25/5/10 - Acquisitions - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Un globe terrestre et un globe céleste ( ill .) datant de 1728-1730 et d’une remarquable qualité esthétique outre leur intérêt scientifique viennent d’être offerts à la Bibliothèque nationale par le Club Français du Livre. Ces deux objets avaient été classés Trésors nationaux en 2007 et ont été acquis auprès de la galerie Steinitz pour la somme de 150 000 €.
The Paradise Project
Document Contents: See Also: Objective: The objective of the Paradise project is to design, implement, and evaluate a scalable, parallel geographic information system that is capable of storing and manipulating massive data sets. By applying object-oriented and parallel database technologies to the problem of storing and manipulating geographic information we hope to significantly advance the size and complexity of GIS data sets that can be successfully stored, browsed, and queried.
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The download manager will be updated the next couple weeks. In the meantime, please check out the ZIP, linked below, to get the 61 changed GIS shapefiles (SHP). Release notes follow. NOTE: Version 1.1.1 corrects the name of the 50m cultural “50m_admin_0_countries” file by adding the missing “r” (XQHSANQW71) , updated March 15, 2010. Thanks Ben! Thanks to over 50 contributors for making version 1.1 happen!About
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I’ve revised my Flickr Shapefiles program to allow greater user interaction. This new version allows the user to query the Flickr Shapefiles dataset using a bounding box and selection of the appropriate place type (Neighbourhood, Locality, Region, Country, Continent). I’ve also changed the base mapping. The previous version of the project used the Microsoft Hybrid base map but I’ve now replaced this with my own Cloudmade style. Using the bounding box it’s possible to browse the Shapefiles available for an area quite easily. However marking out a large area can generate a huge list of Shapefiles particularly in more populated areas.
Flickr Shapefiles browser | MapToPixel
[Editor's note: Also check out Aaron's WOE ID browser (the geography behind Flickr). The Flickr API returns both ESRI format shapefiles and XML / JSON. The monster dump of all Flickr shapes is just XML, however. Thanks GeoPDX! ]
Flickr Shapefiles browser (MapToPixel) « Kelso’s Corner
