links for 2006-09-09
- Boing Boing: Science museum exhibit buying CC-licensed ideas “A new touring exhibit called “Spymaker: The Science of Spying” has issued a novel call for participation: they’re looking for ideas for speculative, near-future surveillance and counter-surv[…] The quirk is that all submissions have to be licensed unde (tags: science musuem competition cc-by)
- The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large “Mass-Observation develops out of anthropology, psychology, and the sciences which study man,” the letter read, “but it plans to work with a mass of observers.” (tags: anthrolopogy surveillance collaboration article)
- Osmarender – OpenStreetMap Osmarender is a rule based rendering tool for generating SVG images of OSM data. (tags: openstreetmap svg visualisation)
- JOSM – OpenStreetMap JOSM is the “Java Open Street Map Editor” developed by Imi. (tags: openstreetmap editor geodata java application)
- Editing Standards and Conventions – OpenStreetMap The following are some Standards and Conventions for editing the maps. (tags: openstreetmap map editing guidelines standards)
- Tagging – OpenStreetMap Having created your nodes, segments and ways you’ll want to tag them with additional information, for example the road name, the road number and type (whether it’s an A road, B road, footpath, railway, and so on). (tags: openstreetmap map tagging)
- Portal:Users – OpenStreetMap This page aims to provide an introduction to OpenStreetMap, from the point of view of those new to the project and wishing to join-in. (tags: openstreetmap howto introduction instructions)
- Real freedom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Real Freedom is a term coined by the political philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs. It is a concept of freedom that expands upon notions of negative freedom by incorporating not simply institutional or other constraints on a person’s choices, b (tags: philosophy freedom)
- Negative liberty – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The philosophical concept of negative liberty refers to an individual’s liberty from being subjected to the authority of others. In this negative sense, one is considered free to the extent to which no person interferes with his or her activity.” (tags: freedom philosophy)
- Positive liberty – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Positive liberty is an idea that was first expressed and analyzed as a separate conception of liberty by John Stuart Mill but most notably described by Isaiah Berlin. It refers to the opportunity and ability to act to fulfill one’s own potential, as oppo (tags: freedom philosophy)