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Google Maps Easter-egg

Google is constantly updating its map database to provide better maps, which includes adding labels to buildings around the Reed College campus, as well as a little something extra at the east end of the canyon. You can check it out on the Google Maps site here.

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More Map Scripts

In the last installment‎ I wrote a script (gdal_slice.py) to cut up geotagged images and save them in a format that GPSdrive will read. I’ve uploaded that script into a new repository on GitHub. I’ve also uploaded a script I wrote called get_quad.py, which will download USGS topographic maps automatically. This script naturally complements gdal_slice.py; [...]

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Map Tiles with Python + GDAL

After getting GPSDrive running on OS X I started looking into different sources for maps. The GPSDrive wiki has a couple of interesting pages about this: one on creating maps and one on map sources. The second page pointed me to the LibreMap Project which has a complete collection of  USGS 1:24000 (large scale) topographic maps for the [...]

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