Links for Chapter 4

Place and Meaning in Space

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Footnote 3

The Degree Confluence Project is at confluence.org.

Footnote 5

Find out more about ‘Null Island’ (i.e., 0°N 0°E) at its wikipedia page. A recent blogpost by Alan McConchie will tell you more than you ever wanted to know.

Footnote 6

The original announcement of geohash is in this blogpost by Greg Niemeyer: blog.labix.org/2008/02/26/geohashorg-is-public. You can generate geohash codes at the website http://geohash.org (yes http, not https).

Footnote 7

Google’s S2 index is explained at http://s2geometry.io (yes http, not https).

Footnote 8

Uber’s H3 index is described at h3geo.org.

Footnote 15

The Wire opens with a comment on place, albeit a very big place: America, which is more of an idea than a place. This link might break quickly, but it’s worth your time.

Figure 4.2

The Bostonography neighborhoods web map is unfortunately no longer working (worth a try, but likely won’t work: bostonography.com/hoods). This blogpost explains the idea, which someone really should revive in other places, as did Hayden Rickard in his Masters thesis, cited in the text and viewable at this link.

Figure 4.3

The Nominatim geocoder is available at nominatim.openstreetmap.org.

Figure 4.5

Chris McDowall’s notes on the te reo Māori placenames map are at github.com/fogonwater/we-are-here. Te Hiku Media’s ngā-kupu tools for detecting Māori words in text are no longer available on their github site. A fork of the repository is on my github site at github.com/DOSull/nga-kupu.