Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Two Tour de France quite different

From Saturday 4 to Sunday, July 26, 2009 will be held on the 96th Tour de France 2009 , which includes 21 steps for a distance of approximately 3500 kilometers.
How can you resist the urge to show the animation map of the route to be followed this year by riders and caravan

On the official website of the "Great Loop," the Tour 2009 is reproduced on a relief map in colors yellow color of the jersey requires the winner.

(Copyright ASO)
map Tour has even been reproduced on a T-shirt "ESSENTIAL!" (20 € Map ... still is money).

(Copyright ASO)
plots of each step gives rise to map illustrations that rely on mapping Geoatlas example below for the first step Monaco -> Monaco:

(Copyright ASO)
The profiles are also available:

(Copyright ASO) You will find here
file. kml that tracks the Tour in Google Earth, step by step. Of course, the course has also been reproduced on Google Maps as a whole ...

... and step by step:

There is also a Flash version here:

Personally, for several years, my preference is for another Tour de France: "Tour de France with two children" , a reader of Augustine Fouillee school, called G. Bruno, published for the first time in 1877 and I have a copy from me that read and reread "staged".

This book was a huge best-seller (8.6 million copies sold), especially because he was "adopted and recommended for school libraries and on the list of books donated by the City of Paris to its municipal schools. .
Can be found here on the site of an article by Valerie Clionautes Fossar, a sort of critical summary of the book, which I borrow the opening lines:
"Through reading the adventures of two young orphans Lorraine, whose ages foster an identification process for students to cycle 3 (Julian is 7 years old) and college (Andrew 14), the book discusses the history of France from its "big characters" yet studied school today (Vercingetorix, Joan of Arc, ...) but also provides information on the nineteenth-century France, between industrialization (...) More traditional crafts and highlighted by the story (...). It depicts a society committed to values constantly reminded of sub-chapter headings (...)".
can also find here an article by J. and M. Ozouf "The Tower France by two children, The Little Red Book of the Republic " ( in places of memory, Book I: The Republic, under the direction of Pierre Nora, Paris, Gallimard, 1984).
can be found here , free full text and illustrations for several publications including the 1877 and 1923. When comparing the two editions, it is interesting to note the deletion of any reference to God, religion, its manifestations, its monuments, which occurred from the 1906 edition, after the promulgation of the 1905 Act on the separation of church and State .
The book contains twenty maps of regions of France covered by the two children, listed in an index card. A gazetteer of place names mentioned in the text is also available.

(Source here )
From this map of a Tour de France, certainly from another era, but was released for free child and that of the next Tour de France which costs 20 € for the version printed on t-shirt, my preference is definitely the first ...

Monday, June 29, 2009

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The news: a vision of the world for 60 years

In June 1949, the first newscast (JT) appeared on the screens of some TV stations that existed in homes. These days, presenters current JT celebrate this anniversary in their own way by inviting their colleagues the best known, "institutions" in the art. For its part, the INA provides on its site Audiovisual Archives ("makeover" for some time) many sequences JT for 60 years.

The JT is now a prominent place in the "cosmogony" collective societies, at least in countries where access to television is largely assured. The images broadcast on JT do not just round the world: they "make" the world. The "truth" out now from the mouths of presenters, reporters and cameras of reporters. "But they have said the information!" : Is not that a common currency is meant, thrust as an incontrovertible truth, claiming itself to guarantee the sincerity and credibility of everything that is said and shown at JT?
images of the world now spend on our screens in a loop and now on our computer stations via Internet. And as to drive the nail, specialty channels of information have emerged since the last few years, passing loop every 15 minutes, may cause us to swim in a sort of "saturation informational" dubbed a "tyranny of instant information, "a broadcast anywhere, any time, images of the world live. The information then becomes totalizing and purely emotional, she abandons the field of explanation, back and took time to understand and yield to the temptation of "image manipulation" which explains nothing because it only seeks to move. The "risk totalitarian" never gets very far. This reign of the immediacy of modern times is particularly denounced by Paul Virilio in "The rate of release" where he talks about the world as "Télécité interconnected" introducing new pollution called dromosphérique "(Greek dromos which means race).
As for the supposed "objectivity and impartiality" of journalists, those of JT and the other a long time ago that this illusion has been unmasked and denied, in particular by Serge Halimi "The new watchdogs .
To return to JT, I discovered with amusement that the first images sent back to the first JT, were taken from a camera mounted on a balloon that eventually ... in a tree and partially burned.
can discover the first images on the site of the INA, but here's a preview aired yesterday JT France 3. This is an aerial image of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris:

(Copyright France3 INA)
See the world from the sky is a perspective chosen from the beginning by JT. It is not surprising then to use excessive and sometimes aerial and satellite images in the JT today such as the aerial image simulated perspective recently used to highlight the schools of the 15th arrondissement of Paris who have been affected by the epidemic of influenza A. I always wonder what journalists have tried to explain this using aerial imagery rather than a conventional plan ... Satellite and aerial imagery would it becoming a sort of locator reference for journalists, willing victims of the "googlomapisation" of the world?

(Copyright France2)
What I have also been arrested in the brief history released yesterday was the use and staging, early on, an animated globe in the generic and JT a large globe in the background of submitting JT:

(Copyright France3 INA)
Today we find the use of globes and maps in the animation studios and scenery many JT.
I take this note to indicate that the site of the INA provides here georeferencing of some of its audiovisual archives:

(Copyright INA)
geolocation This archive is based on Google Maps . For now, very few archives have been so géoréférencéees but we imagine that the card will fill up gradually.
access to cartographic archive INA is also available in some cases the site of the INA (in addition to access through a timeline), for example, in the case "Milestones Mediterranean" :

(Copyright INA)
Some contents of the INA are already available on the IGN Geoportal :

(Copyright IGN. Click here to access )
"In the 2D visualization interface Geoportal, choose Expert profile, open the theme Utilities and click on the layer Videos INA.
From 1:500 000 scale, the INA pictograms are displayed. Click on a pictogram. An information sheet gives you access to a dozen video clips related to the city your choice. The program is diverse and varied news.
A link also provides access to the site of the INA for those who want to know more on selected excerpts. And eventually, all towns in France have their "video memories".

Unfortunately, for now, all records are unavailable and a superb "Error 404: Page Not Found" appears inexorably .. . "Looking for something on Ina.fr? The page you tried to reach was not found. You may have used a link too old or you have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. " This is also the risk with instant information: that his life is never very long and that the links between information, principle of using the Internet, quickly becoming too old ...

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noise maps

2002/49/EC European Directive on the assessment and management of environmental noise (transposed into French law by ordinance ratified by the Act of 26 October 2005 implementing decree No. 2006 - 361, OJ of 26 March 2006 and now included in the Code of Environment) aims, through strategic noise maps to assess in a harmonized way the exposure to noise in the 25 member states. The strategic noise mapping allows a representation of noise levels, to count the population exposed to quantify nuisances and to develop action plans (preservation of quiet areas). The noise maps are developed for large infrastructure and major cities.
For example, here are strategic noise maps of the town of Chalifert , Seine et Marne, developed in partnership with the General Council:

(Source Wikipedia )
Data global (multi-map displays) show that the common Chalifert is primarily exposed to rail noise. The road noise is present in a diffuse and moderate in the territory of the commune. In contrast, the population is not exposed to industrial noise and air, at least according to the criteria of mapping considered in the context of the implementation of European Directive.
Other municipalities have produced maps of noise as the Saint-Etienne example that has given these studies to the company Acouphen Environment:

"The goal is to preserve and improve health and quality of life of people and to include consideration of noise in urban policies in a context of sustainable development. "
bad this interactive mapping online tool does not zoom.

Meanwhile, the BBC has a sound card in the world that has nothing to do with the previous noise maps. This is an open project to users where anyone can submit a sound recording of a few seconds or minutes from anywhere in the world. The objective is to obtain a global map of geo-referenced sounds. This project called "Save Our Sounds" based on the online mapping service from Microsoft, Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth):

For now, for France, contributions are limited and focus mainly on Paris:


For lovers of sound cards from a totally different kind, the film Map of the Sounds of Tokyo directed by Isabel Coixet with Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi López, Min Tanaka, who was presented in official competition at Cannes, is soon out on movie screens in France.

(© 2009. MEDIAPRODUCCIÓN SL, Versatile CINEMA SL)
Until its release, you can always discover the first images and extracts from the soundtrack to the film site . One can think here of films like "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola or some of the films of Wong Kar Wai, where the soundtrack plays a particular role.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

List Two Allusions To Romeo And Juliet

Two ancient geography journals for the general public: Geographia Atlas

The "accident" made me find today on one of the fastest known second-hand books of Paris, the numbers of the former journal Geographia, published in the 50 and 60. This review, which I can not tell what was the publisher no longer exists. It has nothing to do with the current review Geography of the Geographical Society which I have already mentioned several recent issues and "facelift" for 18 months or with predecessors of this review.

In the issue I bought (No. 81 of June 1958), we find a fascinating article by Andre Libault (the 5th article of a series on the History of Cartography ) for on the projection and the line to the clipboard; This article is in fact the occasion of a synthetic history and teaching of Western cartography where mention is made of portolans Portuguese, school mapping Dutch maps Elizabethan Neptune françois or globes of Coronelli.
can find back issues of this magazine to purchase online on specialized sites like this one . Other
journal found by "chance": " Atlas" with the subtitle "Discovering world." This is a monthly journal published by Editions Atlas and prestigious committee of reference "(Scientific Committee): Andre de Cayeux, Yves Coppens, Roger Frisian-Roche, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Jean Rostand, Haroun Tazieff, Paul-Emile Victor, etc..
I managed to get the number 1, dated January 1977:

Contents of this Number 1, an article entitled "The land of men from a plane" , text and Eugene Turri Photo by Georg Gerster sort of ode to the earth and its extraordinary shapes and colors from the sky, long before the recent publications by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
addition to superb aerial photographs of various backgrounds and comments that accomapgnent, this article offers some "Tips for a better look" that provide the information necessary for a passenger on an airliner to choose the best location: "With a little trial, it is possible to find" bonn displaces. "That is to say that even before boarding you have to pick one from which it will be possible in the best conditions to see what interests you. It goes without saying that the first condition is to find a place near a window. Everyone can, to some extent, by observing a map and taking into account the route will follow the device, "project" his flight. "
I do not resist the urge to quote the last lines of the article:
"From up there, we do not distinguish the sign of Man, the materialization of the relationship between man and nature, not feelings and ideas, for this report, are connected and linked together. Feelings and ideas that we can not exclude that an interim basis, our "Geoscope" can not be reduced to entomology, as if the signs left by human activity were only traces of insects. Basically, air travel is a bit like a break, a dream, a respite, after which we feel better still clinging to our city, our neighborhood, in our earthly reality. "
Unless I am mistaken, I think these two magazines have disappeared. They have been replaced by magazines such as GEO , National Geographic French version Geography , "Great News" , "Wild Earth" , "Detours in France" .
to believe the studies on the distribution of national newspapers and magazines in particular, it would cross over several years an unprecedented crisis. Thus, the category of "Press Travel, Gastronomy, Tourism and Transport where you can store most of the magazines mentioned above, shows a net decline since 2002 and continuing.

(Source OJD)
The only glimmer of hope in this bleak horizon: the "Second Life" magazines, the sale after their publication ("Release Delayed") has the effect of Internet sales of back issues no longer on the newsstands as shown in the diagram from the study of 18th Observatoire de la Presse, a trend confirmed by the 19th Press Observatory (Observatoire de la Presse is the annual event of the French press that gives an overview of the press From the analysis of scattering data of over 1000 titles of OJD , Association for the control of media distribution).
What is surprising is that despite all this mess in the economy of the magazine, some new titles appear as such Traveller. A mind elsewhere " I recently discovered.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

What Creates Cold Air

counters and islands in Indonesia

Yesterday evening Friday, June 26, 2009, upon issuance of George Pernoud "Thalassa" on the channel France 3, he was released a report entitled "Indonesia: Islands counters" Marie David and Najib Dhoum (production Mano a Mano ). This report was devoted to cartographers, geographers Staff Republic of Indonesia, in charge of the official maps of the country. Recall that the Republic of Indonesia has about 237 million inhabitants, which are divided into numerous separate groups ethnically, linguistically and religiously. The geography of Indonesia highlighted several archipelagos usually grouped as follows:
- the Sunda Islands to the west, themselves divided between the major islands of the probe while in the West (Sumatra, Java, Borneo , Sulawesi) and the small islands of the Sunda chain of islands lying south of the country from Bali to Timor
- the Moluccas in the East, whose main islands are North Halmahera, Seram in the center and the Aru Islands and islands in the South Tanimbar,
- New Guinea to the east.
The country is organized into a succession of four levels of territorial government units which are, from largest to smallest unit:
- 1st level: Provinsi (Provincial),
- Level 2: the kabupaten (department) and kota (city),
- Level 3: the kecamatan (district)
- 4th level, by region or province: kelurahan (shared), the desa (village), the Gampong (village Aceh), the Nagare (village in Minangkabau country East Sumatra), the kampung (village in Papua).
Nothing to envy the French administrative division ...

(Source Wikipedia ) Here's the synopsis
reportage de France 3 on the counters of islands:
"Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. This huge state has never known exactly how many of its islands, and thus ignores the precise limits of its territorial waters. In 2002, Indonesia and the Philippines, one of his many neighboring countries, competed for the affiliation of two islands, Sipadan and Ligitan. The conflict was resolved before the court in The Hague, which granted the islands in the Philippines. This dispossession has raised awareness in Indonesia of the importance of its territorial boundaries. Since 2005, Indonesia embarked on a great census of the islands and they are numerous. Early estimates indicate 17 000 islands (precisely 17 508 islands of which about 6,000 inhabited). The work begins with a compilation of existing maps, and teams of geographers go "on area" to verify the existence, position and shape of each island listed ... The adventure leads geographers to meet populations often isolated islands ... The great census is far from a story ... still plagued by religious conflicts and nationalist claims, the count of islands is essential to the cohesion of country ".
Until the Republic of Indonesia has completed the identification of its" island heritage, "and if you want to discover this country and its chain of islands, more or less well known, you can visit the site of Badan dan Survei Koordinasi Pemetaan Nasional (National Coordinating Agency for Surveys Mapping years) offering to download geographic data to 1 / 1000000 Arc-Info format, readable with software from ESRI, or transformed into other formats.
Moreover, the official website of the Indonesian Government Bakosurtanal.go.id you find a map of Indonesia with photos georeferenced maps:

By clicking on the pictures numbered, you can find extracts satellite images of certain islands or in other cases of pictures taken from the sea:

Finally, the Indonesia-tourism.com site, oriented towards tourism as its name implies, you can discover section devoted to maps across the Indonesian archipelago, and which are freely downloadable in mid and high resolution, as well as satellite images taken from Google Maps contact:

(Islands North Sulawesi - North Sulawesi)

Somehow, this story and the story he tells, from Paul Valery give wrong when he wrote in "Eyes on the world today" in 1945 "The Time finite world begins ". In Indonesia, it seems, more than 60 years after the time of the finite world, that is to say who is known, bounded, which is more to explore, believed to have mapped every angle, the time of this world is not yet started ...

Friday, June 26, 2009

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"Land of Cities: A remarkable collection of history and geography of some large cities

Collection CD-Roms "Land of Cities" published by Belin (Director of Collection: Jean-François Coulais) in the early 2000s, was a remarkable collection, produced in partnership with the BNF IAURIF IGN and Spot Image and with the participation of the National Center of Cinematography and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. Unfortunately this collection disappeared after 5 titles: "Paris and Ile de France" , "San Francisco" , "Rome 2700 years of history" , "Hong Kong" , "Naples Vesuvius and Pompeii" .
Among these titles, one dedicated to "Paris and the Ile-de-France" I have, is of very high quality so not its design and multimedia development (society Hyptique ) by the ongoing educational interests that prevailed in the choice of iconography, writing comments and especially the mapping and prospects (in all senses of the word) the history and geography the city and its suburbs.

(Copyright Belin)
This CD-Rom is a doubled book written by Jean-François Coulais Gentelle Pierre, François and Pierre Pinon Dugény.
To help educational uses of these products, Belin published a "Curriculum Guide" inviting various educational uses of the collection of titles from the 6th to the terminal. This guide includes 32 photocopiable activity sheets (downloadable for free from Belin ... but I have not found) with the educational objectives in the introduction, the course work to do in the classroom or at home, the type of material to be exploited.
The CD-ROM on "Paris and Ile de France" has four main chapters which is added an index to provide additional information:
- Landscapes
- The Land and Men
- Reconstructions
- Form Urban

(Copyright Belin)
On the first form, the user interface, very easy to use, is based on a sleek black background and a strip of temporal sequence of chapters on content which, at any time, you can pause. If necessary, it is possible by clicking on the slide, or go directly to return on a particular point or stage in the relevant chapter.
Each of these chapters deals with the history of the city and urban forms, some of which are still visible and others have disappeared. The reconstructions in 2D or 3D location of historic sites in the city of Lutetia and development of the medieval town and finally the contemporary city of Paris and the Paris region are particularly clear and telling.

(Copyright Belin)
Similarly, the linking between map illustrations, 3D reconstructions, comments, and iconography old is quite relevant.

(Copyright Belin)
analysis and demonstrations of urban development is at different scales in images and maps in a way that could draw many books and websites.

(Copyright Belin)
Finally the 3D reconstruction of buildings and entire neighborhoods can support the demonstration of the evolution of urban forms is observed not only across the city but also that of buildings, streets, neighborhoods.

(Copyright Belin)
Even if I do not know the other titles in this series, I imagine they are the same level of quality and educational value than that "Paris and the Ile de France" . If so, it is therefore the entire collection is to put all hands of those who want to understand the history and geography of the few major cities that make up this remarkable collection.
only regret that the collection was not pursued.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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doors of the penitentiary ... If you

On June 22, during his speech before Parliament in joint session at Versailles, the President of the Republic discussed the situation of French prisons. One can find the video of this speech here and document the text of the speech here .
The President stated:
"Detention is a hard test. It should not be degrading. What hope reintegrate into society those that have for years deprived of all dignity? The state of our prisons we all know, is a disgrace to our republic. "
In pronouncing these words, the Head of State took into account the criticisms in the first annual report last April by the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty, Jean-Marie Delarue, which critics corroborate the findings and conclusions overwhelmingly numerous reports appeared in nearly a decade in particular those of the International Observatory of Prisons (OIP).
This is an opportunity to look at the map French prisons proposed site of the Ministry of Justice upon which the prison authorities:

By clicking on each of the major regions of this map can access the details of the location of prisons with different symbols by type of institution as here the case of the Ile de France:

At 1 January 2009, France has:
- 194 prisons (111 jails, 77 institutions for punishment, 6 establishments juvenile detention - EPM)
- 62 000 prisoners for whom 83.5% spend a year or less in custody
- 160 000 people followed in open
- 7 new major facilities and 2 neighborhood short sentences (QCP) in 2009 or 5130 additional places
- 103 Prison Service and probation (SPIP)
- 33 000 24 300 agents whose personal monitoring
- 6000 players every day in detention, 2,200 health workers
- 11.8% of those convicted receive an adjustment of penalty
- 2.4 billion annual budget overall
Behind these official figures and to say nothing of the state prisons and the situation of detainees, the President's speech sounds of the Republic as both a confession and a fresh start in French prison policy at least as regards the conditions lives of inmates. Hopefully ...
Meanwhile, as inmates often see the world a piece of sky, we observe from the sky, French prisons and their geometric characteristics so often.



How not to rethink here Michel Foucault who in 1667 spoke in his "History of Madness in the Classical Age" the large enclosure about the construction of General Hospital and of the Edict of confinement of the poor: this should be a hospital where they treat patients, it became a prison where the patients were considered criminals. "Michel Foucault notes the great similarity in patterns of abuse or treatment accorded to large groups of individuals who constitute the boundaries of the social group: the lunatics, convicts, some groups of foreigners, soldiers and children. He believes that ultimately, they have in common to be regarded with suspicion and excluded by a rule in confinement in closed structures, skilled, organized and built on similar models (asylums, prisons, barracks, schools) inspired model monastic what he called "disciplinary institution" .
At the same time, Vauban built the citadel of St. Martin de Ré became between 1873 and 1938 for a step condemned to prison, especially to New Caledonia and then to Guyana. Today the citadel, as penitentiary, is still in business: it's a house plant that receives more than 400 prisoners:

It falls to me to mind the song by Léo Ferré "Shit Vauban"
"Convict, convict to Vauban
in IL 'Ré
J'mang' black bread and white walls in IL
'Ré
to the city' awaits me darling '
But in twenty years
For ell 'I n'serai nobody' Shit
Vauban "

Bagnard, I am, chain and ball
All this for nothing, they shook my
in it's Ré
is for my good
We see the clouds pass
Who will die
Me j'vois s'faner the prime
Shit to Vauvan

Bagnard
ladies here in IL, Ré
S'approch'nt trim our wings to see
in IL 'Ré
Ah! That never comes that I love so

For her I missed the beautiful
Shit Vauban

Bagnard beautiful it is up there in the gray sky

Ell 'goes behind bars

I'm Up Paris with her in solitary
While dreaming
In my love is the best of
Shit Vauban

Bagnard, time lengthens as
in IL 'Ré
With Lice time gnawing at you
in IL' Ré
Where are his eyes where his mouth
With the wind
It sometimes seems as
touch 'em Hell

Vauban is a little black hearse all
Narrow and old
Who m'sortira by a And this evening
s'ra
better I will be seeing the white road
feet before
But I chant'rai to ssous of my boards to Vauban's
Shit "


(Text by Pierre Seghers , Music Léo Ferré)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Prayer Of The Faithful For Weddings 2010

going to spend your holiday in North Korea ...

If you spend your holidays in North Korea, you may find it valuable to know exactly where to go to the land of morning calm (mistranslation of 朝鲜 (Joseon) which means more "morning fresh").
For Google, North Korea is one of those "no-man's land" or "white areas" cards that no one knows what to do.

(Copyright Google)
For Microsoft and Bing Maps, North Korea seems a bit busier.

(Copyright Microsoft) For
OpenStreetMap, the North Korea is almost a desert, punctuated by a few cities.

But when one zooms in on the capital Pyongyang, one is surprised that it OpenStreetmap who comes out best with a density of information and map detail much greater than its competitors Google and Microsoft. Fortunately for Google
the "desert" map mode plane is compensated by the wealth of satellite imagery where the agglomeration of Pyongyang appears very clearly:

(Copyright Google)
For Microsoft, again satellite imagery so complete essential that the map is particularly poor:

(Copyright Microsoft)
But for OpenStreetMap, Pyongyang appears more precisely described by the plots and descriptive information incorporated from GPS readings by contributors:

site Geocart I recently discovered the site North Korea Economy Watch that tracks the progress of a mapping project of the most secret including North Korea, using Google Earth. In addition to locating a large number of infrastructure of these "secrets of the country" more or less visible on satellite imagery of Google, tooltips provide access to additional information through links to Internet resources. This project, initially led by American students in 2007, is regularly enriched by the Internet. Since its launch in April 2007, the project has to date been downloaded over 123,000 times.

In his post "Mapping North Korea" site The Map Room also indicates the site-North Korea-Uncovered. But he also mentions another resource mapping, relaying information Site Free Geography Tools : these topographic maps at 1 / 200 000 Soviet Army, made in 1977 and updated between 1983 and 1984 on all of North Korea which the following specifications :
- Projection: Gauss Kruger
- Datum: Pulkovo 1942
- Ellipsoid: Krassovsky
1940 - Spacing of contours: 40 m in the plains, deserts, hills and low mountains
- Extension of each card: 60x40 minutes
- Language: Russian
All cards were scanned in color and are available here . gif format. Georeferencing files available here were produced by Leszek Pawlowicz of Freegeographytools.com format. Gfw (corresponding to the format. Gif image files). It can display maps in a GIS "classic" in the correct coordinate system and map projection:

Warning, some files contain errors in the values of X and Y point of géoréfencement geographical origin of the files, so we must identify and change the values in files. gfw correspondent.

(Map on the Pyongyang Metro)
Happy holidays ... ! The Group