Diary Entry Ambush of OpenStreetMap Hut

In the sinister depths of a fellowship of the underground cartographers, known for its dark secrets, two veteran system administrators, Hat-trick...

Diary Entry Careful with Microsofts low quality buildings

Be careful with when working with Microsofts automatically identified buildings in RapID. Microsoft is apparently using its misaligned imagery ther...

Diary Entry Cartographic generalisation

“Cartographic generalization, or map generalization, <…> is a core part of cartographic design.” Yet it is quite often unknown or understo...

Diary Entry International Cartographic Conference 2021

In December of 2021 a bi-annual International Cartographic Conference was held in Florence, Italy. Because of Covid it was a mixed conference, h...