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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 ...

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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.

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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)

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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 ... !

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