Triangulations: March 20

An article about GPS and geocaching in South Africa points out the extreme markup for GPS devices in that country: they cost twice as much as they do in the U.S..
The proposed INSPIRE directive, which would ostensibly standardize the sharing of geographical data among European countries, is raising concerns that it would restrict public access to that data. More at and via Boing Boing.
Of interest to Movable Type users: the MTGoogleMaps plugin is now at version 3.0. Via Movable Type News. See previous entry.

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