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Theban Mapping Project: Almost unreal: scroll to zoom in or out, not to pan around.

Moving the scrollbar from left to right, the map scale smoothly changes, contrary to the established behaviour of the scrollbar widget: to move the view of an area that is too large to be entirely visible in its display region. Continue reading...

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Map of Carnival names revisited

How do map makers prepare for the period of Lent? The cartographers of the Bosatlas van Nederland published a special, updated map of Carnival names, the jocular names that towns assume during the Carnival celebrations. Despite the Bosatlas topping the book charts in October last year, many Dutch municipalities and Carnival clubs complained that their towns did not appear on the map. For compiling the missing Carnival names, the map makers of the Bostlas have been liaising closely with the Oeteldonks Gemintemuzejum, Carnival clubs, municipalities and online forums.

The Dutch chapter of OpenStreetMap also aims to collectively create a map layer of Carnival names and relies on every Carnival club having at least one (sober) member installing the Java Open Street Map Editor! The local news section on the website of the Dutch newspaper Trouw takes this a bit further and presents a Google Maps mash-up of Carnival names. Visitors can submit their photos and reports of the Carnival celebrations.  permanent link for this entry