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by uuilly 5867 days ago
Yup: http://uuorld.com/gallery?image=89
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ydant 5867 days ago
That's one of the coolest maps I've seen in a while. Thank you.
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uuilly 5867 days ago
Thx. Me and http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=martian wrote the software to make it. Martian made that particular map.
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tocomment 5867 days ago
Where did you get the data? Is it free? I'd love to make some realtime software like this.
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uuilly 5867 days ago
Many places. World Bank, Census, IMF etc. Do a text search on this page: http://uuorld.com/portal/ for "set:" Each set is free from its source but they require lots of tedious massaging to reformat.
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tocomment 5867 days ago
I thought we were talking about user submitted, geo-tagged photographs?
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tocomment 5867 days ago
Why the downvote? I'm genuinely confused. I guess I could have read the link better, maybe this thread isn't talking about that?
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