#1021: telcos, bad location, climate, real-time, holes, tiles
, last check: Wed, 22 Apr 2026. Post history
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telcos
USA telecommunication companies are selling location data to anyone willing to pay
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile -
bad location
IP location is not exact, as an innocent couple in South Africa found out
https://gizmodo.com/how-cartographers-for-the-u-s-military-inadvertently-c-1830758394? -
climate
How climate zones are shifting on the planet, and how much it will affect humankind survival
https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-worlds-climate-zones-are-shifting -
real-time
Cartography future is on living maps from real-time data (video, lidar, radar)
https://geoawesome.com/the-future-of-mapping-is-living-maps/ -
holes
15% of England and Wales territory is not registered, around 2.1 million hectares
https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-englands-unregistered-land/ -
tiles
Optimizing raster tiles size using OptiPNG in parallel
https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2018/12/optimizing-pngs/
Raf