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No, this is not a story about bad data. It’s a story about how waterproof paper failed to hold ink in the rain during an Australian orienteering event. Still, the winner previous years won again. For the final day organizers planned to ditch the waterproof paper for regular paper. Nice to know data is not always at fault.
Me, I’m low tech. When I cycle or run in the rain the map is stored in a “zippy bag.”
“Maps are really powerful. Advertising on a map is a good idea because maps aren’t just read and thrown away. Maps have a lasting value – this one doesn’t.”
- Aaron Funk, owner of Kamp Klamath, in Crescent City, California on a new map developed by an advertising company. Those who paid for ads say it’s in accurate, among other things in an article in the Daily Triplicate.
This week the podcast takes a look at some top ten lists - some from the geospatial world but mostly those form the broader tech Web space. Both sets of lists reveal quite a lot about where geospatial is as we come to the end of 2008.
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Update: 12/29/08:
Back on Dec 5 Jeff King was ordered to pay a $4,000 fine and another $750 in restitution to the National Park Service. King was found guilty in court this fall of shooting a bull moose 600 feet inside the park boundary in 2007.
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President & CEO, Director of GeoEye Inc. Matthew M Oconnell bought 6,250 shares on 12/19/2008 at an average price of $17.91. That’s about $111,000.
