Identify Garmin Map Tiles And The Area They Cover
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009If you load a Garmin mapset into MapSource, individual tiles are identified by a geographically-related name, and they area they cover plotted on a map. But the tile files themselves (*.img) have cryptic 8-digit filenames that don’t correlate with their name or the area they cover. But there’s a simple way to look at a [...]
Qs / Vol. 26 / February 9 - February 15
Monday, February 16th, 2009The top 15 out of a 36-quip week. A = Authors | C = Community A / No. 49 / Armin / The typophoto project at the Intermediate Typography class at Winthrop University’s Department of Design has some really cool photo-based alphabets. [Via VIBE] A / No. 45 / Armin / Based on Facebook’s meme, here are 25 things you didn’t (or did) know about graphic design. [Via Design Observer] A / No. 33 / Bryony / Talk about a costly and time-consuming typo: Spelled wrong with tile at a subway station, “BRODA
Catenarhythm, white ribbons installation project by Ryuji Nakamura Architect
Saturday, December 20th, 2008Ryuji Nakamura Architect and the exhibition director Eizo Okada have been exhibited the Catenarhythm “Sampo - ribbon project by Mina Perhonen” on last 30th October to 11th November 2008 at Living Design Gallery, Tokyo. The tile “Catenarhythm” are made from the words of catenary and rhythm, where the meaning of catenary is chin-up, in the word of mathematics. The design concept of the ribbon is sampo (walking). For this installation, Ryuji made the space with chin-up curve of white ribbons
Google Maps Downloader 5.86 Released at Oct,22 2008!
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008[img]http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/3/10/28/mapster/f_20081029132m _11eff9b.png[/img] Google Maps Downloader is a tool that help you to get small tile map images from Google Maps. All downloaded small images are saved on the disk. You can view downloaded maps by Map Viewer Or you can combine them into a big BMP map. Note: The downloaded images are only for your personal purpose, non-commercial use. It is very easy to use. Click here to see how to use it. If yo
Njection Mobile: iPhone App Fights Off Speeding Tickets
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Finally, there is an iPhone application that might end up SAVING money for people. Named Njection Mobile, the new application utilizes the device’s 3G and GPS capabilities to alert drivers of upcoming traffic speed traps, red light cameras, and speed detection devices. As Cult of Mac points out, the new application employs a native Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) implementation, levering the mobile tile set to speed up map displays, and provides what promoters call “one of the be