Map bump!

Where's the Topo map?

Some more links I was going to put in a "Moon Phases, Maps & Minutia" post ... all will open in a new window, btw:

• http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi
  MOON PHASES

• http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html
  TIDES & CURRENTS

• http://fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetteer/
  Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server
  (Five Stars!)

• http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e
  Okay, it's an astrology site but EXCELLENT for pulling up lat/long and the time of day. (Information for a determinist world ... =)

• http://www.weatherimages.org/index.html#top
  LIVE Weather Images

• http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
  Thesaurus of Geographical Names

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_collection_guide.html
  Univ. of Texas MAP COLLECTION -- comprehensive

• http://www.topozone.com/
  Interactive US maps (requires Java ... )

• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
  Library of Congress -- COUNTRY STUDIES
  emphasis on those nations the site of possible deployment

Geek lagniappe: A cool article on Mems Devices entitled:

EPIC BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM WILL BE AIDED BY UNSEEN MACHINES

THANKS MR. C !!
from Just Another Ghost in the Machine

Some cool links (and best regards).

Thanks

Thanks Askel5. Good links. Time for bed for me.

No Problem RedwM.

Excellent!

Thanks for the links.

I'm honored. A real honest to goodness Askel5 flag. Thanks.

Check out the University of Texas' Perry-Castenada map library...it's online, I just can't remember the URL. Seach for "maps" and "Perry-Castenada" and you'll find it.

Casteneda and topo are at #5.

Actually, #4. Thanks for the link, tho. PCL is one of my main resources when I go kit-bashing a wargame together.

Hey thanks.

"Kit-bashing" ... I like it.

Alas ...

(like Economist_MA's of last night):

reasonably close to a random walk ...
volatility scales roughly with the square root of time.

... I'm not sure I understand what you mean     =)

Phases of the Moon and Percent of the Moon Illuminated.

Full moon is Oct. 2.

"Kit-bashing" originally comes from movie production, where various science-fiction shows would use pieces from several commercial model kits to make new spaceships and the like. I use the term to indicate where I take an established boardgame system, any convenient order of battle I can find, and a hastily-drawn map (or, in this case, a game map that consists of hexagons superimposed over a digital image of the terrain). Presto! Instant wargame. It may not be playable, but that's what development work is for.

From movie production? No joke?

And here I had WWI British or my friend Paddy in mind!

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Thanks for the link, Romulus!