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June 18, 2008

the FF3 map

There are those maps out there which are based on statistical data – assumed, accumulated and unproven figures that may indicate a certain trend and/or just show what the situation has been when the data was collected.
When we look at today’s map of Firefox 3 downloads worldwide in just 24 hours (for a world record):

…I [...]

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November 18, 2007

I just de greet you

August 30, 2007

“Githingithia” on Wikimapia

I just marked my good friend’s duka “Githingithia” on Wikimapia.

Wikimapia is a nice GoogleMaps Mashup, but I doubt it’ll be good enough to suite our need for a web-based project database.

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March 30, 2007

1,51 kilometres

1,5km is what I walked to the office every morning while in Embu. About 1,5 km from my room in downtown Embu to the WRMA office behind the law courts.
I just measured that via Google Earth. Eh! :-)
Ok, sijui if they have already been around for some time, but I’ve just started Google Earth again [...]

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October 12, 2006

“wapi?” (part 8)

Kenya Tourists (KTs) will clearly identify this screenshot from GoogleEarth as Karura Forrest & CID HQ (blue roofs) next to Kiambu Road.
Kenya Residents (KRs, or Kenyan Roots as M puts it) will use this to remember what Karura Forrest looked like before it was castrated / sacrified for technological progress aka urbanization.
(technorati-should-be-keywords: how to we [...]

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October 10, 2006

GIS in/for Kenya

I read this story on GIS services to be installed at the Police in Kenya (for crime tracking) and a conference/workshop that had been in held in Nairobi on this matter, organized by ESRI (GIS software company).
Someone was quoted as having said that all GIS services // data should be organized in a central database [...]

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February 3, 2006

map-o-rama

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"Maplecroft maps is a highly visual web-based resource which contains detailed country information for over 200 states and maps key social, economic, environmental and political issues and their significance to business and society.
The interactive map enables users to view an issue individually or in combination with other [...]

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