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Wilderness 2: A practical approach to wilderness analysis using FME

Psalter World Map ca 1265

Psalter World Map ca 1265

In a former posting I discussed how wilderness is not only about politics, religion, philosophy and legal instruments. Unless we force it into a practical context, the term “wilderness” remains an intangible size. Geographers have a long history for making representations of the intangible – be it disease (John Snow), social justice and injustice, demography and more. To my knowledge one of the first impressions of wilderness or “the wild” is what we can find in some older maps. “Hic sunt dracones” (here be dragons) is an expression which can be found on the “Hunt-Lenox Globe” (c. 1503–07). Other maps bear similar indications of uncharted or remote areas. We, the geographers, have moved on. Today we paint our dragons in more sophisticated ways.

The use of technology to “find” or delimit wilderness has a long history in Norway and other countries. I will continue this tradition and do an analysis which in many ways is similar to those done in Norway. The encroachment types will be slightly different. So will the technology used to do the analysis.

In this posting I will look at how FME can be used to establish a wilderness areas data set. The results will be presented in a separate posting.

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Mindlandskartet i versjon 2.0

mindland_2_0_illustrasjonMindlandskartet gir en god topografisk fremstilling av Mindland og en uovertruffen oversikt over stedsnavn på øya. De mange stedsnavnene ville ikke vært på kartet uten velvillig hjelp fra store og små på Mindland. Kartet er laget ved bruk av kartprogrammene ArcMap fra ESRI og QGIS. Uten kartdata fra OpenStreetMap og gratis kartdata fra Kartverket ville det blitt et stusslig kart.  Med dette er Mindlandskartet gjort fritt tilgjengelig. Kartet kan skrives ut og formidles videre av den som måtte ønske det. Gratis!

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