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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A Perfect Educational Story for GIS Day Ripped from the Headlines

Someone pulled post codes for all the members of UK British National Party and plotted them on a Google Map. Despite specific notes that the map was built not on addresses but on post codes, there was confusion about accuracy (though not necessarily privacy concern, from what I read). So, the map was redone as a heat map.

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by Adena Schutzberg on 11/19 at 07:13 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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