From the category archives:
India asserts that they’ve lost land to China in the area around the Line of Actual Control with China due to poor mapping of the area. India reports that Chinese troops have threatened nomadic goat herders in the area and there are reports that the Chinese Army entered 1.5 km into Indian territory and painted [...]
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Mapping as espionage is a concept that can’t be escaped even though technological advancements are slowly making this advantage obsolete. We are reminded of this as the Chinese refuse to be measured and monitored for their carbon emissions, showing a reluctance to be mapped based on security concerns. The strategic nature of mapping has become [...]
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An editorial in today’s New York Times shines a light on ongoing privacy suits that seek to determine the legality of whether police can attach GPS devices to vehicles without judicial oversight. Courts at various levels have ruled differently about the legality, and the Supreme Court has yet to address this issue. The highest courts [...]
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A story today in China View discusses a Chinese government crack down on the sale of a topography map. A ‘classified’ map from the period of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was being sold at a market in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, prompting the crackdown. The ban asks for citizens to report any such [...]
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There’s a great new website on crime mapping for San Francisco called San Francisco Crimespotting, created by Stamen Design. The site was enabled by the opening of data on the DataSF site, and speaks to the creativity that can be unleashed by providing transparency to government data resources. Brady Forest on O’Reilly Radar did a [...]
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The movie District 9, that opened in theaters last week, details a segregated society between humans and aliens. To support the film there’s a web mapping feature that pictures the segregated city, with crime maps for both humans and non-humans. The site makes good use of a map interface, with embedded media pop-ups that include [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a five-year, $29 million, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Battelle and subcontractor Capstone to support operational awareness for critical infrastructure in the U.S. The contract is specifically for the operation and support of the National Infrastructure Coordination Center (NICC) and the Office of Infrastructure Protection Incident Management Cell [...]
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The Government Printing Office released a report that contained “highly confidential” details regarding the location of civilian nuclear sites, including maps with the precise location of fuel stockpiles for nuclear weapons. The Federation of American Scientists publicized the existence of this report in their Secrecy News newsletter on Monday, and the report was subsequently removed [...]
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With Obama’s pledge to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons, it becomes interesting to consider where all the nukes are in the world. The world’s nuclear powers, in order of the size of their arsenals, are Russia, the United States, France, China, United Kingdom, Israel, Pakistan, India and North Korea. The Federation of American Scientists [...]
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