Into this mass of data the producers have injected cross-references and geo-tags, films and sound clips, archival photographs and rare historical maps.
He said he also uses maps, photographs and property ownership data, including specifications of the buildings on a property, its purchase date and price.
Even while the library represents an enormous investment in careful archiving of print books, it also includes a nod to the paperless future: a well-outfitted preservation and digitization laboratory that librarians will use to scan in books, maps, manuscripts and photographs.
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"The overall content, including the maps, text and photographs is very much more detailed than any other atlas ever produced, " said Alan Smith, Managing Director of Global Mapping.
Case studies, historic maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original objects are used to explore the evolution and development of the once rural island through the centuries, beginning with its early Dutch days.
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The project uses aerial photographs known as ortho-imagery to produce the maps, and is being delivered as a joint project between the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Land and Property Services (previously known as the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland).
Images include paintings, photographs, models, sculptures as well as fossils, clothes, weaponry and ancient maps.
During the unrest over the 2009 election, he developed an algorithm using Google Maps, his knowledge of Tehran, e-mails and photographs from friends, and his own observations on the ground to determine crowd size during demonstrations.
Stephens is more leery of recent developments like Google Maps Streetview, which offers street level photographs of entire cities, and Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which tracks the behavior of users on thousands of Web sites.
We enjoyed a World Wide Telescope fly-over of Iceland, the time-lapse photographs from a SenseCam worn by his collaborator, Microsoft's Tim Regan, as he delivered material to the venue and some of the astonishing maps Eric Fischer makes by plotting the location data from Flickr photographs of major cities, along with some astonishing data visualisations.
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