Any geographic object (or location) has a description. Such a description can be presented differently for different objects. For example, the description almost necessarily includes the address for buildings. To describe geographic objects such as lakes and mountains, their names from the geographic names directory will be enough. Geographic coordinates are also part of the […]
In February 2016, Secondary Cities project kicked off in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It is carried out by Humanitarian Information Unit of US State Department in collaboration with American Association of Geographers and Colorado State University. Secondary Cities project aims to “build partnerships to create geospatial capacity, enhance understanding through data and mapping and enable science-based decision […]
I guess everyone has watched the Christmas special of ‘Sherlock’. (You haven’t? Well, you ought to: British TV-series are sometimes just brilliant.) Can you remember Sherlock sitting in the lotus position mentally scrolling through newspaper clippings? Now, do the same trick (but no googling, mind you!) to find a desired page from the classical book […]
Since ancient times, one of the map’s purposes has been land inventory. It is not surprising, because the land has always been the main wealth of most countries and the land tax served as a basis for the state treasury. Of course such an important business of tax collection demanded an information management system, this […]
Today we would like to talk about sustainable development of cities. There is an opinion: best thing that human can do for nature is to stay as far as possible from it, and to live in a densely populated city (actually, it is not a joke, but a quote of city planner and urban designer […]
