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Nigerian postcodes – a case for open data
24 Jul 2010For quite a while, the Nigerian postcode system has been operational but when you ask people to fill forms, they fill in 234 or something similar for their postcode. There’s very little information available for postcodes and very little projects even use them. I will attribute it majorly to ignorance. Why is a postcode system [...]
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- Tags: LBS, opendata, postcodes, scraping
Why I’m a Map Maker
In: GIS|Web Development
23 Mar 2009I remember the first time I used Google Maps. I was thrilled with the ability to find places and locate them on a digital map. That was my first exposure to Geographic Information Systems. But I quickly grew out of it after a while and what was majorly because of the lack of localized information. [...]
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- Tags: Google, LBS, Maps, Mashups
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- Daniel: Thanks Tim for coming over! Icant $get that day to me that was like a boost to my skills I was thnki [...]
- Iyinoluwa Balogun: i think curiousity comes first. those who have left footprints in the sands of time started by quest [...]
- Kizito S.M.: What I gather is that this G-Buzz is something like a blend between Facebook Updates and Twitter fol [...]
- concept37: They are trying to out-facebook facebook and out-twitter twitter, Folks who want to do these things [...]
- ray: Funny u took it from the LBS angle, which makes better sense. But from the social networking perspec [...]
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