From To Google Maps

[Shawana Messerli]

AsI mentioned in my last blog post, Three Excerpts from Maps of Meaning, I recently recorded an audio version of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Routledge, 1999), now available at Audible. I believe that the audio version will make the book much more accessible, as I was able to highlight the meaning of the more complex sections with careful intonation.

The point of our limitations is not suffering; it is existence itself. We have been granted the capacity to voluntarily bear the terrible weight of our mortality. We turn from that capacity and degrade ourselves because we are afraid of responsibility. Thus the necessarily tragic preconditions of existence are made intolerable.

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Evidence from patients has shown that primary somatosensory representations are plastic, dynamically changing in response to central or peripheral alterations, as well as experience. Furthermore, recent research has also demonstrated that altering body posture results in changes in the perceived sensation and localization of tactile stimuli. Using evidence from behavioral studies with brain-damaged and healthy subjects, as well as functional imaging, we propose that the traditional concept of the body schema should be divided into three components. First are primary somatosensory representations, which are representations of the skin surface that are typically somatotopically organized, and have been shown to change dynamically due to peripheral (usage, amputation, deafferentation) or central (lesion) modifications. Second, we argue for a mapping from a primary somatosensory representation to a secondary representation of body size and shape (body form representation). Finally, we review evidence for a third set of representations that encodes limb position and is used to represent the location of tactile stimuli relative to the subject using external, non-somatotopic reference frames (postural representations).

New Zealand has often been omitted from maps of the world, which has caught the attention of New Zealanders. It is considered that this is because of the widespread use of the Mercator projection, a map projection putting Europe in the center which leaves New Zealand in the bottom right-hand corner of maps, sometimes making it go overlooked by mapmakers, easily removed by an accidental crop, or simply not added for convenience, ignorance or laziness.[1][2][3]

New Zealand has been excluded from maps at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in the United States, in IKEA stores, on the map of the board games Pandemic[4] and Risk, on the map of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key participated, at a world map seal at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland, on the newspaper Daily Mail,[5] on Government Executive's newsletter Defense One, on the magazine Forbes, on the digital media platform Mashable, on the Pyongyang International Airport in North Korea[2] and on the logo of the Flat Earth Society. It was also excluded from maps promoting the 2015 Rugby World Cup even though New Zealand was the world champion at the time.[1]

This recurrent occurrence has become a meme for New Zealanders. There is a community on Tumblr titled World Maps Without New Zealand and a Reddit community known as r/MapsWithoutNZ both focused on this issue with 10,000 and 30,000 members respectively as of 2017.[1] In 2019, a user in r/MapsWithoutNZ noticed that a map, "BJRKSTA world map", on sale for 30 dollars at an IKEA store in Washington, D.C., did not portray New Zealand. Subsequently, IKEA apologized and removed the product from its stores.[6] On Reddit, there also are communities about the omission of Flevoland in the Netherlands, Hawaii in the United States and Tasmania in Australia from world maps.[1]

The New Zealand Government acknowledged this phenomenon, featuring a map of the world in which the country was deliberately not included on the 404 error page of its official website; the page stated that "something's missing".[1][4] Furthermore, in 2018, a tourism campaign video was published in which then Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and the New Zealand actor and comedian Rhys Darby discussed why New Zealand was being left off world maps. In the video, Darby jokingly said that it was the result of a conspiracy against New Zealand. The video promoted the hashtag #getnzonthemap.[7]

On July 9, Jason Kim from the Office of Space Commerce spoke at the inaugural Maps Camp conference held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He presented an overview of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and U.S. GPS policy to an audience of geospatial professionals and mapping enthusiasts from the open source community.

The Geocoding API is a service that accepts a place as anaddress, latitude and longitude coordinates, or Place ID. It converts theaddress into latitude and longitude coordinates and a Place ID, or convertslatitude and longitude coordinates or a Place ID into an address.

Use the Geocoding API for website or mobile application when you want to use geocoding data within maps provided by one of the Google Maps Platform APIs. With the Geocoding API, you use addresses to place markers on a map, or convert a marker on a map to an address. This service is designed for geocoding predefined, static addresses for placement of application content on a map.

This service is not designed to respond directly to user input. To do dynamic geocoding, for example, in a user interface, see the Maps JavaScript API client geocoder and/or the Google Play services Location APIs.

The Java Client, Python Client, Go Client and Node.js Client for Google MapsServices are community-supported client libraries, open sourced under theApache 2.0 License.Download them from GitHub, where you can also find installation instructions and sample code.

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I am using the color by measure feature in a Qlik Sense map chart and I only want to show data that is >0. Unfortunately, Qlik is mapping areas that contain 0 values, making it look like there is data where there isn't. I've tried to change the Range to Custom with the Min at 1 and the Max at Max([Reward Amount]) but it is still showing 0s. These are not NULL values, they are calculated at 0 using an expression (Yes, I've tried un-checking the 'Include null values' box). Is there a way to omit zeros from the maps? This makes the color by measure option virtually useless for mapping calculated data.

In my opinion there is no other way for the dashboard, if you want to have more performance you have to do this calculation via SCRIPT, you have to test the impact, I thought of something quick and simple to help you.

Sure, I'm using Qlik Sense desktop June 2018. I noticed it first in our enterprise instance (April 2018 release) so I decided to play with it on my desktop to see if the June release had any fixes or enhancements. See attached for .qvf.

no, that is the plan for very soon, we just haven't implemented it yet. I figured that would help fill in the areas Qlik isn't finding on it's own. Thanks for the help on this one! I marked your answer above correct.

Few objects from colonial America had such a personal connection to their owners as the powder horns used by soldiers, settlers, and American Indians to store the gunpowder necessary for their survival.

Many carved powder horns found in Pennsylvania in recent decades illustrate stations along the Forbes Road from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and include some of the earliest first-hand depictions of Fort Pitt.

I, itch of ink, think of thing, plucked open at her start; no bigger than a capillary, no wiser than a cantaloupe, and quite optimistic about what my life would come to look like. I have since ached along her edges. Delighting in my bare-feet-floorboard-creeps across from where she once would feed, down to where her body brews, I have sampled, splintered, leaked and chewed through tissue, nook, bone, crease and node so much, so well, so tough, now, that the place feels like my own.

It is, perhaps, inevitable that after all this time, I have come to feel a little dissatisfied with the fact of my existence. This is not easy to admit. I suppose one can only be a disaster tourist for so long before the cruel old ennui starts to set in. But the Greeks said that in the beginning, there was boredom. The gods moulded mankind from its black, lifeless crust and this is, of course, encouraging.

Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own because here is the thing about bodies: they are impossibly easy to prowl, without anyone suspecting a thing.

She was one crossing away from the place she needed to be, the surging rhythm of the city in her pulse, the day tripping quick towards rush hour. Her senses felt unusually alert. Nicked wide open by nerves, perhaps. It was nice. A nice change. To feel this exposed, this alive, whilst standing at a red light waiting for the world to resume itself.

The city just keeps culling, there is grief on every street, Lia thought, as the plump belly of a toddler emerged at an open window and her eyes flicked down the floors below, counting, jaw tight, as the toddler leant its milk-white head out in delight, resting its tiny fingers on the ledge.

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