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17th October 2008 - Link Blog

FOWA London - Beyond GoogleMaps. Andrew Turner’s talk at FOWA was the most information dense presentation I’ve ever seen, and discussed a huge number of cool geo projects that I’d never previously heard of. Andrew links to the full slides and video, well worth a watch.

Posted 17th October 2008 at 2:01 pm

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