Category Archives: map making

A Time Machine by Old Maps(link)

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Rashid Faridi

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Some (40) Highly Informative Maps on Middle East (link)

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Often called the birthplace of human civilization, the “the fertile crescent” because of its lush soil, the “crescent” of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine. (Some definitions also include the Nile River valley in Egypt.) People started … Continue reading →

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Global Positioning System and GPS Devices

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

The now all pervasive Global Positioning System  is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites put into orbit by the US Department of Defence. Of these 21 satellites are used by GPS receivers and three … Continue reading →

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Democratising the Mapping Process: WIKIMAPS is Building An Open Collection of Historical Maps (link)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Perhaps the biggest challenge of today regarding geographic information is to process and organize a massive amount of data from various sources, dates and especially, formats. Big data is about processing a huge and diversified volume of information, with high velocity … Continue reading →

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