The Strange Maps
blog
collects and displays many wonderful mapping curiosities. Last week's
offerings included "A
Map to the Tombs of the Stars," which shows a scanned old map of
the Père
Lachaise cemetery in Paris that highlights the various famous
people
buried there. My first question - and that of many readers of a
certain
demographic, I would imagine - was "Where is Jim Morrison buried?" The
map "certainly looks like it’s pre-World War II" says the post, so
he's
not shown. But
someone posted a comment to the blog saying he's buried in section 6.
Date:
Tue, January 29, 2008 12:50:04 AMFrom:
Directions Media
Subject:
Directions Magazine - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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USGS is in the news this week as we learned that Landsat 5 is back in business after a battery scare and the National Research Council offered some specific recommendations for the USGS' research agenda. Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg examine these issues and their implication for remote sensing and The National Map, among other things.
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GITA Announces 15 Half-day Seminars and an Itinerary Builder Tool IDV Solutions Releases Visual Fusion Server 3.0 Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Takes Strategic Membership in the OGC CSR and Motorola announce intention to form EGPS Forum to advance and improve location technologies
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