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Archaetech
Opening Pandora’s Box | | I’ve just sent off the text for a keynote I’m giving at an Athens conference hosted by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture on “Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment”. The paper is entitled ‘Pandora’s Box: the Future of Cultural Heritage on the World Wide Web’ and for anyone who can’t make it I’ve uploaded [...] | | 29 Aug 2008 |
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mapperz blog
BBC Extreme Weather (in Windsor) | BBC Extreme Weather (in Windsor)
232 degrees in Windsor's was a slight error on the BBC Weather Map this morning...
Blame the Gremlins
Screenshot and news...
Map and GIS News finding blog. With so many Maps and GIS sites online now it is hard to find the good from the not so good. This blog tries to cut the cream and provide you with the newest, fastest, cleanest and most user friendly maps that are available online. News has location and it is mapped.
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Open Objects
User-generated mashups in natural language? | In case you missed it elsewhere, check out Mozilla Lab's video and blog post on Introducing Ubiquity - 'An experiment into connecting the Web with language'.
It's a framework that brings together lots of the bits of functionality that are available with browser extensions and bookmarklets and lets the user run them with natural language commands. One of the goals is to "enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)".
It's a long way from being ubiquitous, but it does show that it's increasingly worth publishing your data in re-usable formats. They show an example of address being picked up from microformats in apartment listings and mapped for the user - that kind of mashup was possible before and they're a huge step forward in themselves, but how many users have the skills and time to do it? Being able to use natural language to pull together and use data could bring mash-ups to the general public in a massive way. | | 27 Aug 2008 |
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Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK
It’s still spam… | | <rant>
Like others, I recently received a comment about an upcoming competition on my “about” page. Like others, I feel that this is a curious way of advertising a competition with large monetary prize. Possibly unlike others, I also feel quite strongly about being contacted in this way. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a [...] | | 26 Aug 2008 |
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Archaeology News
Bronze Age building saved from erosion by sea | | A Bronze Age structure thought to have been used as a sauna has been saved from destruction by the sea after a team of archaeologists moved the entire find to... | | 26 Aug 2008 |
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Wessex Archaeology
Last few places on our 2008 Practical Archaeology course | There are just a few spaces left on the 2008 Practical Archaeology
courses at Down Farm, Cranborne Chase, Dorset. This excellent training
course offers 5 days excavation on an Iron Age site, with first class
tuition in fieldwork techniques together with workshops on identifying
pottery, flint and bone. Courses run from 1st to 5th and from 8th to
11th September and are suitable for all levels of experience. To find out more please visit the Training section of our website.  Practical Archaeology Course 2007 Team Photo
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The Map Room
Map Hawk | | Map Hawk, a side project by Directions Media's Joe Francica, is a blog that "will cover the use of maps, mapping technology and location-based information in the media"; topics so far include the U.S. elections, the recent Russia-Georgia crisis, and... | | 19 Aug 2008 |
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Past Thinking
New International Heritage and Conservation News blog | | It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely at the professional with [...] | | 05 Aug 2008 |
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Mapping Hacks
New version of Garnix | | We wrote about Garnix in _Mapping Hacks_. It is a command line tool written by Anton Helm to communicate with Garmin GPS units. It will run under DOS 5.0, various Windows versions, Macintosh, and Linux.
It was the first tool I used to communicate with a GPS.
The new version is here.
OEM Store
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UK Archaeology Conferences
Stone conservation | | 17.7.08: A Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England seminar, held at Peterborough Cathedral. | | 12 May 2008 |
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Professional GIS / GPS Developers Google Group
Online stake-out and surveying calculations for mobile phones |
I'm a surveyor in NZ and have written a few pages that perform simple
stake out (setting-out) and surveying calculations. The pages are also
color mobile phone compatible so that they can be used in the field,
using just a basic phone.
The pages include:
- radial calculations (e.g. find centre using 3 points)
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MapPoint B2B
Blog Deprecated.... | I should've wrote this a year ago, but I was too lazy to find my credentials, login and actually do it. So, sorry.
Anyway, by now perhaps you know I power the Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN, so if you haven't already point your RSS reader over there. I'm going to try and migrate some of this content over, but in the next few months I'll be deleting this blog.
CP  | | 11 Mar 2008 |
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Online Archaeology Blog
Archaeology Videos | | I just finished off adding an archaeology video catalogue to Online Archaeology. The catalogue is categorised and tagged so it’s easy to search for videos. All videos are hand picked from either YouTube or Google Video.
Registered members can add their own videos which will be moderated.
Watch out for some GIS videos in the new year [...] | | 19 Dec 2007 |
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Wessex Archaeology: Events
Practical Archaeology Course 2007 - Day 10 | Today was the last day of Wessex Archaeology’s 2007 training excavation at Down Farm in Dorset. The weather finally broke and instead of the glorious sunshine we’ve had over the past two weeks the day was overcast and a little damp. Nothing could deter our volunteers though and we spent the morning on site continuing the excavation of our postholes. By now our team was so efficient that features were being recorded with ease and speed. This is fantastic progress considering that most of our diggers were complete beginners at the start of the week.
Progress this past two weeks has been amazing – seventy-nine postholes have been excavated and fully recorded, and three slots have been put through the enigmatic quarry hollows in the south of the site. In total our teams have generated over two hundred context numbers (the numbers that we give to each archaeological event in order to understand and talk about them) which would be considered a very respectable number for one of our commercial digs.
Each year that we’ve been here we learn more about the Bronze and Iron Age inhabitants of Down Farm. We’ve found their settlement and identified the enclosure ditch flanking the western edge. We’ve found pieces of their pottery and their flints. Tantalizing clues have emerged as to the animals they kept and what the people were eating. There’s still a lot of work to do though. Our postholes show no sign of abating and appear to continue off to the north, east and west of our current excavation areas. Supported by the geophysical survey conducted last week, this gives us possible areas for future investigation.
We’d like to thank everyone who has dug with us this year for their hard work, patience and enthusiasm. We’d also like to thank Martin Green for welcoming us onto his farm and for his support, tours and demonstrations throughout the fortnight. Thanks are also due to the two cake-making Margarets, to Rob and to Cindy who have brought us gifts of food.
Today was the last day of Wessex Archaeology’s 2007 training excavation at Down Farm in Dorset. The weather finally broke and instead of the glorious sunshine we’ve had over the past two weeks the day was overcast and a little damp. Nothing could deter our volunteers though and we spent the morning on site continuing the excavation of our postholes. By now our team was so efficient that features were being recorded with ease and speed. This is fantastic progress considering that most of our diggers were complete beginners at the start of the week.
Progress this past two weeks has been amazing – seventy-nine postholes have been excavated and fully recorded, and three slots have been put through the enigmatic quarry hollows in the south of the site. In total our teams have generated over two hundred context numbers (the numbers that we give to each archaeological event in order to understand and talk about them) which would be considered a very respectable number for one of our commercial digs.
Each year that we’ve been here we learn more about the Bronze and Iron Age inhabitants of Down Farm. We’ve found their settlement and identified the enclosure ditch flanking the western edge. We’ve found pieces of their pottery and their flints. Tantalizing clues have emerged as to the animals they kept and what the people were eating. There’s still a lot of work to do though. Our postholes show no sign of abating and appear to continue off to the north, east and west of our current excavation areas. Supported by the geophysical survey conducted last week, this gives us possible areas for future investigation.
 Group photo
We’d like to thank everyone who has dug with us this year for their hard work, patience and enthusiasm. We’d also like to thank Martin Green for welcoming us onto his farm and for his support, tours and demonstrations throughout the fortnight. Thanks are also due to the two cake-making Margarets, to Rob and to Cindy who have brought us gifts of food. | | 18 Sep 2007 |
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Roman Archaeology
Roman "Silver" pig to be sold at auction | 
I wonder if Lindsey Davis is going to bid on this "pig" to commemorate her first best selling Marcus Didius Falco mystery, "The Silver Pigs"?
"A 2000 year old lead ingot mined by the Romans shortly after they conquered Britain is expected to fetch up to £12,000 when it goes under the hammer this month.
The 154lb ingot, known as a 'pig', was mined by Romans in North Yorkshire, and would have been due to be made into piping of waterproof lining for roofs. Silver could also be extracted from it.
The Romans, who ran well organised mining operations in Britain and also produced silver and gold after invading the country in AD43.
Dating from AD81, the 11 stone pig bears a raised inscription on the top reading 'Imperatore Caesare Domitiano Augusto Consule Septimum’ - a reference to the Emperor Domitians seventh consulate.
Measuring 58.5cm by 10.5cm by 13.5cm, it has the word 'Brig' on the side - showing it came from the territory of the British Brigantes tribe, who had fallen under Roman rule.
The pig was discovered accidentally in 1731 in peat on Hawshaw Moor, which was famous in antiquity for its lead mines." | | 15 Apr 2007 |
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GIS for Archaeology and CRM
Archaeology and 3D Model of Areca Mill, Valley Forge, PA. | |
About a year ago I posted a short blurb about an archaeology project I was working on that incorporated a SketchUp model. The model was not so much the focus, or even a requested, of the project, but the data and interest were there, so… I modeled.
Briefly, the this project entailed documenting a series [...] | | 13 Apr 2007 |
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Blog - Brian Flood
Arc2Earth Publisher Update | wow, it’s been awhile. we’re already well into the new year and I haven’t posted anything yet. thankfully, this is not just neglect on my part but the result of lots of development on the Arc2Earth front. There has been a lot of work on the new A2E Publisher (now in beta testing) that creates map tiles and marker layer for use in online viewers. We hope it makes publishing your ArcGIS maps online as simple and painless as possible. Here’s a small update of progress so far: Map Viewers – A2E Publisher creates a couple of different viewers based on the consumer mapping APIs that are available right now. These systems are robust and have the added benefit of very good base data and built in geocoding for searching. We are working on getting the OpenLayers viewer up to speed but the focus right now is on the Google and MS viewers. Florida Radar sample (3 minute export, published automatically to Amazon S3) VE 2D
 VE 3D
 Google Maps
 Google Earth
Continuous Export – One thing to note is that A2E exports "continuous" maps, that is, it works with the ArcMap current extent directly and not through an intermediary image file. This is important when multiple map levels are created since the quality of the tiles will degrade with a single image source (what some other tile creator use). A2E, on the other hand, will continually refresh the map so that the best resolution (and scale dependent symbols) are rendered. It also means that labeling engines like Maplex or the new Cartographic Representations are fully supported.
Marker Layers - If your map contains markers (points), you can optionally export each of these layers as clickable markers in the viewers. A2E will temporarily remove the layer from the map and export it as KML. All the viewers share the same KML parsing scripts so each can view the data and display the correct marker symbol and description HTML. You can format the HTML of the markers using the same dialog that is present when exporting to Google Earth, it allows you to select which attribute fields to export and how they will look. GMaps with KML markers
 VE with KML markers
 Another cool aspect of the viewers is the built in search. You can always search by lat/lng and if you have markers loaded, you can search by their name and description. Additionally, if you are using VE or GMaps you can also use the built in geocoders and search by address. Finally, all of these examples use Amazon S3 as the backend, you can use your own servers but it is not necessary. More importantly, there is no server software needed, all of the processing happens on your desktop during the export. In this regard, it is an extremely inexpensive way to host your maps online. For instance, our last month S3 bill was only [Content].14. more to come... Listening To: Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy - And the Glass Handed Kites  | | 17 Jan 2007 |
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Online Archaeology Articles
MIDAS XML and Google Maps by Steve White | Objectives
This application attempted to use the freely available Google Maps API as a neutral interface for displaying archaeological data. In order to ensure that the application was interoperable with other heritage applications data should be both exported and imported using the MIDAS XML schema.
Technology
- Database: SQL Server 2000
- Web Programming: VB.NET, Javascript, AJAX, CSS
Thesauri
The application uses the full English Heritage Thesauri dataset. | | 07 Sep 2006 |
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UK Archaeology
National Trust plans for 2004 unveiled | | Fiona Reynolds, the National Trust's Director-General, has highlighted the enormous range of innovative cultural and natural heritage projects opening to the public during 2004. "There are literally hundreds of areas in which the Trust is embarking on ambitious projects that will benefit people at all levels and that build on unprecedented levels of public support" she said. "It is a pity that the Government seems reluctant to take a lead in celebrating the contribution a thriving heritage sector can make to all our lives." | | 13 Feb 2004 |
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