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		<title>Pavia &#8211; Wiki Loves Monuments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wiki Loves Monuments è un concorso fotografico che punta a valorizzare il patrimonio culturale italiano presente su Wikipedia. Viene organizzato dal 2009 in molti Stati, ma in Italia sarà possibile partecipare soltanto a partire da questa edizione. Questo a causa di problemi legati alla interpretazione giuridica del Codice Urbani (Dlgs. 42/2004) che appare a molti [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wikilovesmonuments.it/" title="Wiki Loves Monuments">Wiki Loves Monuments</a> è un concorso fotografico che punta a valorizzare il patrimonio culturale italiano presente su Wikipedia. Viene organizzato dal 2009 in molti Stati, ma in Italia sarà possibile partecipare soltanto a partire da questa edizione. Questo a causa di problemi legati alla interpretazione giuridica del Codice Urbani (Dlgs. 42/2004) che appare a molti come un ostacolo alla libertà di panorama, alla liberta, cioè, di pubblicare liberamente, fotografie contenenti monumenti di proprietà di un Ente Pubblico.</p>
<p>Per superare il problema, limitatamente alla città di Pavia, ho deciso di agire e di prendere contatti con l&#8217;amministrazione del <a href="http://www.comune.pv.it/">Comune</a>, e dopo alcuni incontri, siamo riusciti ad arrivare a questo traguardo, la rinuncia da parte dell&#8217;amministrazione, dei presunti diritti garantiti dal Decreto Urbani, con la conseguente possibilità di scattare fotografie con licenze libere, quali la <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">Creative Commons CC0</a> o la CC-BY-SA.</p>
<p>Qui sotto il testo della delibera e la mappa dei 21 monumenti liberati.<br />
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<strong>Monumenti Liberati:</strong><br />
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		<title>Converting an Excel file with point coordinates from Gauss-Boaga to WGS84 and to KML file format</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say we have a file like the following, coming from a local mapping agency. It is a Microsoft Excel/LibreOffice where we have two columns for the X and Y coordinates represented in the Gauss-Boaga coordinate system, plus several informational columns containing non-geographic data. Here an hypotetical tabular data file: We need to convert it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s say we have a file like the following, coming from a local mapping agency. It is a Microsoft Excel/LibreOffice where we have two columns for the X and Y coordinates represented in the Gauss-Boaga coordinate system, plus several informational columns containing non-geographic data.</p>
<p>Here an hypotetical tabular data file:<br />

<table id="wp-table-reloaded-id-2-no-1" class="wp-table-reloaded wp-table-reloaded-id-2">
<thead>
	<tr class="row-1">
		<th class="column-1">POSX</th><th class="column-2">POSY</th><th class="column-3">height</th><th class="column-4">type</th>
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</thead>
<tbody class="row-hover">
	<tr class="row-2">
		<td class="column-1">1722813.000</td><td class="column-2">5102614.000</td><td class="column-3">4.0</td><td class="column-4">Lanterne</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-3">
		<td class="column-1">1722818.000</td><td class="column-2">5102572.000</td><td class="column-3">3.5</td><td class="column-4">Lanterne</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-4">
		<td class="column-1">1722825.276</td><td class="column-2">5102541.078</td><td class="column-3">3.5</td><td class="column-4">Sfere</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-5">
		<td class="column-1">1722838.000</td><td class="column-2">5102546.000</td><td class="column-3">3.5</td><td class="column-4">Sfere</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-6">
		<td class="column-1">1722851.848</td><td class="column-2">5102550.524</td><td class="column-3">3.5</td><td class="column-4">Sfere</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-7">
		<td class="column-1">1722814.747</td><td class="column-2">5102522.739</td><td class="column-3">4.0</td><td class="column-4">Sfere</td>
	</tr>
	<tr class="row-8">
		<td class="column-1">1722809.241</td><td class="column-2">5102501.789</td><td class="column-3">4.0</td><td class="column-4">Sfere</td>
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<p>We need to convert it to KML in order to visualize the data in Google Earth. Google Earth makes use of the WGS84 coordinate system, so we are going to use the excellent <a href="http://www.gdal.org/">OGR/GDAL</a> command line software both for the coordinate conversion process (Gauss-Boaga &#8211;&gt; WGS84) and the data format conversion (CSV &#8211;&gt; KML).</p>
<p>It is a multi step process:</p>
<ul>
<li>Write the supporting files</li>
<ul>
<li>Create a CSV out of the spreadsheet</li>
<li>Create the data access VRT file</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Create the  Gauss-Boaga rototranslation file</li>
</ul>
<li>Converting the files</li>
<ul>
<li>from CSV to SHP (still Gauss-Boaga)</li>
<li>from  SHP Gauss-Boaga to SHP WGS84</li>
<li>from SHP (WGS84) to KML</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>Let&#8217;s start: we need to prepare some support files to help us convert the data. First of all we need to export the data from the spreadsheet software to a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. Which will look like this:</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">POSX,POSY,height,type
1722813.000,5102614.000,4.0,Lanterne
1722818.000,5102572.000,3.5,Lanterne
1722825.276,5102541.078,3.5,Sfere
1722838.000,5102546.000,3.5,Sfere
1722851.848,5102550.524,3.5,Sfere
1722814.747,5102522.739,4.0,Sfere
1722809.241,5102501.789,4.0,Sfere</pre>
<p>OGR supports a <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html" rel="nofollow">virtual format</a> which allows specification via an XML file. If you convert your worksheet into a CSV, you can generate a VRT file to instruct GDAL on how to access the data. I&#8217;ve created my VRT file like the following, and saved it on the disk as <code>example.vrt</code>:</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">&lt;OGRVRTDataSource&gt;
    &lt;OGRVRTLayer name=&quot;example&quot;&gt;
        &lt;SrcDataSource&gt;/home/simone/Desktop/test_data/example.csv&lt;/SrcDataSource&gt;
        &lt;GeometryType&gt;wkbPoint&lt;/GeometryType&gt;
        &lt;LayerSRS&gt;WGS84&lt;/LayerSRS&gt;
        &lt;GeometryField encoding=&quot;PointFromColumns&quot; x=&quot;POSX&quot; y=&quot;POSY&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/OGRVRTLayer&gt;
&lt;/OGRVRTDataSource&gt;</pre>
<p>This line in <code>example.vrt</code>is the important one:</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">&lt;GeometryField encoding=&quot;PointFromColumns&quot; x=&quot;POSX&quot; y=&quot;POSY&quot;/&gt;</pre>
<p>it tells GDAL which culumn is what. Which column is the east-west and north-south coordinate. We are now ready to generate a SHP, still in Gauss-Boaga coordinates.</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">ogr2ogr -f &quot;ESRI Shapefile&quot; example.shp example.vrt</pre>
<p>Now we can convert <code>example.shp</code> to WGS84, using this PROJ file (gauss-boaga.prj):</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">PROJCS[&quot;Monte Mario / Italy zone 1&quot;,
GEOGCS[&quot;Monte Mario&quot;,DATUM[&quot;Monte_Mario&quot;,
SPHEROID[&quot;International 1924&quot;,6378388,297,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;7022&quot;]],
TOWGS84[-104.1,-49.1,-9.9,0.971,-2.917,0.714,-11.68],
AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;6265&quot;]],
PRIMEM[&quot;Greenwich&quot;,0,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;8901&quot;]],
UNIT[&quot;degree&quot;,0.01745329251994328,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;9122&quot;]],
AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;4265&quot;]],
UNIT[&quot;metre&quot;,1,AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;9001&quot;]],
PROJECTION[&quot;Transverse_Mercator&quot;],
PARAMETER[&quot;latitude_of_origin&quot;,0],
PARAMETER[&quot;central_meridian&quot;,9],
PARAMETER[&quot;scale_factor&quot;,0.9996],
PARAMETER[&quot;false_easting&quot;,1500000],
PARAMETER[&quot;false_northing&quot;,0],
AUTHORITY[&quot;EPSG&quot;,&quot;3003&quot;],
AXIS[&quot;X&quot;,EAST],AXIS[&quot;Y&quot;,NORTH]
]</pre>
<p>and by executing the following code:</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">ogr2ogr -s_srs gauss-boaga.prj -t_srs EPSG:4326 example_wgs84.shp example.shp</pre>
<p>We are ready for the final step: convert the SHP file to KML:</p>
<pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint">ogr2ogr -f &quot;KML&quot; wgs84_GE.kml wgs84_example.shp</pre>
<p><code>wgs84_GE.kml</code> is our final output file.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<title>mapping illegal horse tracks with OpenStreetMap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting things about OSM is the fact that it allows you to &#8220;map the reality&#8221;, map the ground-truth, not what the State-run maps tells you it&#8217;s there, but what is actually there. Recently, on 10. January, an illegal horse racing, in a sort of clandestine racetrack was blocked by the military [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most interesting things about OSM is the fact that it allows you to &#8220;map the reality&#8221;, map the ground-truth, not what the State-run maps tells you it&#8217;s there, but what is actually there.</p>
<p>Recently, on 10. January, an illegal horse racing, in a sort of clandestine racetrack was blocked by the military police in Pachino, Syracuse (Sicily, Italy). The blitz has, so far, allowed to identify more than 20 horse owners, jockeys and 3 veterinarians. The land placed in the open countryside, less than 2km from the sea, where the race was stopped, was a clandestine race-course, complete with boxes for the horses.</p>
<p>Just after discovering the news, I went hunting for that track on aerial images. We have been lucky enough to have been granted access to some 25cm resolution images, these images were made by the <a href="http://88.53.214.52/content/view/95/112/">Regione Sicilia</a>, after some more research I ended up discovering that the racetrack is located in <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/631172271">Contrada Granelli</a>, and not nearby the inhabited part of the Pachino town, so in the end, I was able to find it on the map, and tag it accordingly.</p>
<p>&lt;way id=&#8221;49641876&#8243;&gt;<br />
&lt;tag k=&#8221;clandestine&#8221; v=&#8221;yes&#8221;/&gt;<br />
&lt;tag k=&#8221;leisure&#8221; v=&#8221;track&#8221;/&gt;<br />
&lt;tag k=&#8221;name&#8221; v=&#8221;Granelli&#8221;/&gt;<br />
&lt;tag k=&#8221;sport&#8221; v=&#8221;horse_racing&#8221;/&gt;<br />
&lt;/way&gt;</p>
<p>Here is the result:<br />
<p>horse<br/><a href="http://cortesi.com/wp-content/plugins/leaflet-maps-marker/leaflet-fullscreen.php?layer=1"><img src="http://cortesi.com/wp-content/plugins/leaflet-maps-marker/img/map-rss-feed.png"/><br/>Show embedded map in full-screen mode</a></p></p>
<p>Surely this is not as important as what my friend <a href="http://brainoff.com/weblog/">Mikel</a> is doing in <a href="http://mapkibera.org/">Kibera</a>, but still a declaration of indipendence from the canonical mapmakers.</p>
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		<title>L&#8217;unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia. Il significato della geografia è che essa presenta la terra come la sede duratura delle occupazioni dell&#8217;uomo. (John Dewey) Alle elementari avevo un maestro che insegnava geografia e che tirava giù una carta geografica del mondo davanti alla lavagna. Avevo un compagno di classe al sesto [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>L&#8217;unità di tutte le scienze è trovata nella geografia. Il significato della geografia è che essa presenta la terra come la sede duratura delle occupazioni dell&#8217;uomo. (John Dewey)</p></blockquote>
<p>Alle elementari avevo un maestro che insegnava geografia e che tirava giù una carta geografica del mondo davanti alla lavagna. Avevo un compagno di classe al sesto anno che un giorno ha alzato la mano e ha indicato la costa orientale del Sudamerica; poi ha indicato la costa occidentale dell&#8217;Africa e ha chiesto: «Sono state mai unite?». E il maestro ha risposto: «Certo che no, è una cosa ridicola!». Lo studente cominciò a fare uso di droghe e sparì. L&#8217;insegnante è diventato consigliere scientifico dell&#8217;attuale amministrazione (ndr Bush). (dal film documentario statunitense del 2006 &#8220;Una scomoda verità&#8221;,  diretto da Davis Guggenheim).</p>
<p>Nella mia geografia ancora sta scritto che tra Catanzaro e il mare si trovano i Giardini delle Esperidi. (George Robert Gissing, da Sulle rive dello Jonio).</p>
<p>L&#8217;arma del giornalista è la penna o la macchina da scrivere. L&#8217;arma del giornalista sotto vetro smerigliato è la bacchetta o la carta geografica. (Sergio Saviane).</p>
<p>Lungo la costa dell&#8217;Africa del Sud-Ovest, delimitato da montagne di origine vulcanica da una parte e dall&#8217;Atlantico dall&#8217;altra, si stende uno dei più antichi e selvaggi deserti della terra. I geografi chiamano questa zona la Costa degli Scheletri, perché le sue spiagge sono disseminate dei relitti delle navi che vi hanno fatto naufragi. (Ronald Schiller da &#8220;Nel mondo dei diamanti&#8221;).</p>
<hr />Insieme a:</p>
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<li><a title="massimozotti.it" href="http://www.massimozotti.it/" target="_blank">massimozotti.it</a></li>
<li><a title="OpenStreetMap Italia" href="http://blog.openstreetmap.it/" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap Italia</a></li>
<li><a title="TANTO, le cose che ci piacciono ..." href="http://blog.spaziogis.it/" target="_blank">TANTO</a></li>
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		<title>OpenStreetMap Haiti Statistics</title>
		<link>http://cortesi.com/2010/01/openstreetmap-haiti-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[english]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a poster I&#8217;m working on for the Geomatics for Crisis Management conference, I did run some simple stats on the Haiti Planet extracts. After the recent Earthquake, and after the donation of free/libre aerial imagery there has been an increase in user contributions. These are the total number of users in the Haiti planet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a poster I&#8217;m working on for the <a href="http://http://www.gi4dm-2010.org/haiti.php">Geomatics for Crisis Management</a> conference, I did run some simple stats on the Haiti Planet extracts. After the recent Earthquake, and after the donation of free/libre aerial imagery there has been an increase in user contributions.</p>
<p>These are the total number of users in the Haiti planet extract as of today (the 29th), and dating back to the 14th. For comparison purpose I&#8217;ve added the data for 30th dec 2009. It can clearly be seen that the biggest spike was on 16th, reason being on the 15th the first high quality images were made available for retracing. Then, same thing, same reason, on the 22nd.</p>
<p>first column: date of the extract<br />
second: unique users contributing to the Haiti map<br />
third: Megabytes of the uncompressed extract file (useful for gathering a rough idea of &#8220;detail&#8221;)</p>

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		<th class="column-1">Date</th><th class="column-2"># users</th><th class="column-3">Size (MB)</th>
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		<td class="column-1">2009-12-30</td><td class="column-2">38</td><td class="column-3">44</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-14</td><td class="column-2">71</td><td class="column-3">49</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-15</td><td class="column-2">96</td><td class="column-3">51</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-16</td><td class="column-2">183</td><td class="column-3">60</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-17</td><td class="column-2">245</td><td class="column-3">77</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-18</td><td class="column-2">286</td><td class="column-3">93</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-19</td><td class="column-2">300</td><td class="column-3">106</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-20</td><td class="column-2">327</td><td class="column-3">117</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-21</td><td class="column-2">365</td><td class="column-3">126</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-22</td><td class="column-2">494</td><td class="column-3">188</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-23</td><td class="column-2">515</td><td class="column-3">197</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-24</td><td class="column-2">573</td><td class="column-3">211</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-25</td><td class="column-2">585</td><td class="column-3">219</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-26</td><td class="column-2">642</td><td class="column-3">229</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-27</td><td class="column-2">649</td><td class="column-3">234</td>
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	<tr class="row-17 odd">
		<td class="column-1">2010-01-28</td><td class="column-2">655</td><td class="column-3">238</td>
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		<td class="column-1">2010-01-29</td><td class="column-2">663</td><td class="column-3">239</td>
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		<title>OpenStreetMap ad Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[La mancanza di mappe aggiornate alla reale situazione post-terremoto rischiava di compromettere le attività di salvataggio. Dopo il terremoto ad Haiti la macchina internazionale degli aiuti si è immediatamente messa in moto, questa volta, una importantissima azione è stata svolta dai volontari openstreetmap. Poche ore dopo sono state rese disponibili foto aeree delle zone colpite, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La mancanza di mappe aggiornate alla reale situazione post-terremoto rischiava di compromettere le attività di salvataggio.</p>
<p>Dopo il terremoto ad Haiti la macchina internazionale degli aiuti si è immediatamente messa in moto, questa volta, una importantissima azione è stata svolta dai volontari <a href="http://osm.org">openstreetmap</a>.</p>
<p>Poche ore dopo sono state rese disponibili foto aeree delle zone colpite, i nostri volontari si sono, indipendentemente, messi all&#8217;opera e hanno iniziato a inserire dati nel nostro database, questo ha portato, nel giro di poche ore, alla generazione di mappe aggiornate dell&#8217;isola, con indicate tutte le strade ancora percorribili, le posizioni dei campi profughi, ponti inagibili, il neo costruito aeroporto.</p>
<p>Le mappe vengono continuamente aggiornate e sono rese immediatamente disponibili per qualsiasi uso, commerciale, o umanitario. Esse sono scaricabili sui navigatori portatili e usate sui cellulari dotati di GPS.</p>
<p>E&#8217; uno straordinario esempio di come un approccio partecipato può funzionare anche in questi drammatici casi.</p>
<p>Un esempio di <a href="http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/?zoom=14&amp;lat=18.55545&amp;lon=-72.32512&amp;layers=B00FFFFFFFFF">mappa che mostra gli accampamenti spontanei</a>.</p>
<p>Due immagini che mostrano il progresso: la prima è Port au Prince adesso, la seconda, prima del terremoto.</p>
<p><a title="haiti.osm.20090114180900 by mikel_maron, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264771/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4274264771_6873e16fa0.jpg" alt="haiti.osm.20090114180900" width="500" height="403" /></a></p>
<p><a title="haiti.osm.pre-event by mikel_maron, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4274264767_c9933d12c5.jpg" alt="haiti.osm.pre-event" width="500" height="379" /></a></p>
<p>Per maggiori informazioni, soprattutto per i giornalisti, fate riferimetno a questo: <a title="Press Info" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Press_info">Informazioni per la Stampa</a>.</p>
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		<title>geo search using Lucene + SOLR + OpenStreetMap</title>
		<link>http://cortesi.com/2010/01/geo-search-using-lucene-solr-openstreetmap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on finding geo data (OpenStreetMap) using common-use search software as SOLR a java frontend to Lucene. Apache Lucene is a Java™-based, high performance search library. Apache Solr is a search server that uses Lucene to provide search, faceting, and many more capabilities over HTTP. Both are licensed under the commercial-friendly Apache Software [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An interesting article on finding geo data (<a href="ttp://osm.org">OpenStreetMap</a>) using common-use search software as <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/">SOLR</a> a java frontend to <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/">Lucene</a>. Apache Lucene is a Java™-based, high performance search library. Apache Solr is a search server that uses Lucene to provide search, faceting, and many more capabilities over HTTP. Both are licensed under the commercial-friendly Apache Software License. Both Lucene and Solr also offer the ability to restrict the space being searched by applying one or more filters, which are key to spatial search. <em>Range queries</em> and <em>range filters</em> are among the essential mechanisms for restricting the space.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/j-spatial/index.html</a></p>
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		<title>Old Map of Pavia</title>
		<link>http://cortesi.com/2009/12/old-map-of-pavia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an historical map of my city, Pavia, Italy, scanned from out copyright source. The file is large enough to be printed on a 50 by 75 sheet of paper.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an historical map of my city, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavia">Pavia</a>, Italy, scanned from out copyright source. The file is large enough to be printed on a 50 by 75 sheet of paper.<br />
<a title="Historical map of Pavia by simone.cortesi, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonecortesi/4229016791/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4229016791_9d26fb048e.jpg" alt="Historical map of Pavia" width="500" height="416" /></a></p>
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		<title>cubed art</title>
		<link>http://cortesi.com/2009/12/cubed-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my non-artistic eyes this smart artist creates folding cubes that you need to donwload &#8211;&#62; print &#8211;&#62; cut &#8211;&#62; fold with no need for glue. An amazing piece of art.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href=" http://cubeecraft.com/cubee/italian-spiderman"><img class="size-full wp-image-59 alignnone" title="119a" src="http://cortesi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/119a.png" alt="Italian Spiderman from cubeecraft.com" width="107" height="149" /></a></p>
<p>To my non-artistic eyes <a href="http://cubeecraft.com/">this smart artist</a> creates folding cubes that you need to donwload &#8211;&gt; print &#8211;&gt; cut &#8211;&gt; fold with no need for glue. An amazing piece of art.</p>
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