[Ráfaga]Nº1021: telcos, bad location, climate, real-time, holes, tiles

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1021: telcos, bad location, climate, real-time, holes, tiles

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 by Raf

   - USA telecommunication companies are selling location data to anyone
   willing to pay

   https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile
   - IP location is not exact, as an innocent couple in South Africa found
   out

   https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394?
   - How climate zones are shifting on the planet, and how much it will
   affect humankind survival

   https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-worlds-climate-zones-are-shifting
   - Cartography future is on living maps from real-time data (video,
   lidar, radar)
   http://geoawesomeness.com/the-future-of-mapping-is-living-maps/
   - 15% of England and Wales territory is not registered, around 2.1
   million hectares

   https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-englands-unregistered-land/
   - Optimizing raster tiles size using OptiPNG in parallel
   http://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2018/12/optimizing-pngs/

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