June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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520 | Index
H
Helm, Anton, 216
historic documents, geocoding
of, 498–502
location searches with google, 500
“How Far Is It” service, 26
hypsographic features, 161, 481
I
ICBM namespace, 173
ImageMagick, 64
Imager, 136
imaginary places, mapping, 508–514
ellipsoids, generating, 508
gazetteers, 512
spatial indices, 513
Terraform, 510
web services, 513
Indymapper, 196
Indyvoter, 196
InfoUSA, xxvii
Ingerson, Brian, 149
Inline.pm, 149
interactive maps, plotting points using
DHTML, 183–189
Internet services walled gardens, xxvii
ionospheric delay, 270
J
Java
installing, 311
Openmap (see Openmap)
Jdgpsip, 272
K
Kindred, Darrell, 28
KisMAC, 71
Kismet, 71
L
Laake, Jeff, 37
LAC (Location Area Code), 274
Lambert’s Conformal Conic
Projection, 130
latitude and longitude, 98, 110
formats, conversion of, 110–113
manual conversion, 111
Perl converters, 113
PROJ.4, 112
other coordinate systems, conversion
to, 113–116
UTM, conversion to, 115
LineDrive, 22–25
Location Area Code (LAC), 274
location sensing technologies, xxiv
locative literacy, impact of, xxx
Longley-Rice Irregular Terrain
Model, 75
LORAN-C, 208
M
Mac OS X Terrabrowser (see
Terrabrowser)
MacStumbler, 71
MakeAShorterLink, 171
Manifold, 303–310
dissolving boundaries, 307
opening shapefiles, 304
projects, creating, 303
Mankowski, Walt, 113
map URLs, shortening, 170
map_koord.txt, 290
Maporama, 171
mapping
global weather conditions, 204–206
imaginary places, 508–514
ellipsoids, generating, 508
gazetteers,
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