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Finder! organizing geographic data, extending GIS to the GeoWeb

Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:51pm CEST

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more cool technology from Where2.0 (ya I was there in row 1) was announced from Sean Gorman of Geocommons. Sean informed us about a new featuer currently being rolled out in Beta - Finder! Finder!...

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More Rumsy Maps via Google Earth

Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:58pm CEST

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A natural fit, David Rumsey and Google have partnered to make even more of the awesome historical map collection available via a Google Earth layer... from LAt/Long blog... there are now 120 maps in...

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Google Maps Directions Gets help with addition of Street Views

Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

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Are you a Google Maps directions fan? I know I couldn't get to and from our ball tournaments every week-end without them! Well now, users of this service will notice that Street View is integrated...

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Gebäude in OpenStreetMaps

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:26am CEST by Administrator

Tags: Earth & maps

Einen ersten Ansatz zur [systematischen] Integration von Gebäuden in die “freie Weltkarte” OpenStreet zeigt dieser Kartenausschnitt.
Alternativ dazu gibt es den Ansatz (das sogenannte Karlsruher Modell), nur Hausnummern bzw. Hausnummernbereiche zu integrieren.

Slashgeo

Flood Map of Great Britain Released

Posted: April 24th, 2008, 8:30pm CEST by Sunburned Surveyor

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Infoterra Ltd, a leader in the provision of geospatial products and services, has launched the first comprehensive flood risk model of Great Britain to incorporate all the major causes of flooding, significantly assisting in the assessment of risk at a property level. The full story can be read here, at GISCafe.com.
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Datenexport von OpenStreetMap

Posted: April 20th, 2008, 8:33pm CEST by Administrator

Tags: Earth & maps

Auf [www.openstreetmap.org] gibt es jetzt ein “Export”-Tab. Damit
kann man einen mit der Maus gewaehlten Ausschnitt direkt als PNG, PDF oder im OpenStreetMap-XML-Format herrunterladen, und zwar auch in hoher Auflöung.
Damit wurde ein Ansatz realisiert, der auch im Rahmen von Google Summer of Code angedacht war.

Slashgeo

Patterns in the streets?

Posted: April 16th, 2008, 3:34am CEST by lxnyce

Tags: maps

The swordpress blog has an interesting look at the San Francisco map. Please head on over to their site to see the pictures which speak for themselves. From their summary : "A fellow San Francisco mapper sent me these images to post. Definitely great things going on here, and very much in line with my data/art theme. Taking geographic data (the streets of San Francisco), what do you see in the negative space between the streets? If you’re anything like our guest cartographer, you should find a “tuxedo fish, chicken rider, the drunk cat, alien guy, and the juggler.”"
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Digital Map Overview Developer Guide

Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:08pm CEST by Satri

Tags: maps

Adam Grabowski writes "The NAVTEQ Digital Map Overview Developer Guide provides the reader with an introduction to the concepts and methodologies of the digital map. This guide also presents high-level information on the process behind digital map making to stress the importance of quality, richness, and accuracy. Download the file here — [developer.navteq.com] 329. Note, requires a NN4D login." Editor's note: we're working on giving direct access to these documents to Slashgeo registered members without the need of a separate NN4D account. This feature may however not be available until late next fall.
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OpenStreetMap now in Travel Guidebooks

Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:57pm CEST by Satri

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Jani Patokallio writes "Another step down the road of merging together open content: OpenStreetMap maps and Wikitravel travel guides have now been combined together into Wikitravel Paris , a 185-page guidebook to the City of Light. Like all Wikitravel Press books, the entire tome is updated monthly and printed on demand when you order. Expect to see many more OSM/WT books like this in the future!" I copied below some related stories, but a search will reveal how often we cover OpenStreetMap, including it's other commercial applications.
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New USGS Map For Tracking Floods

Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:34pm CEST by Sunburned Surveyor

Tags: maps

An online, user-friendly map that tracks flood conditions has been developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). As expected rains drive flood waters higher along the Mississippi River Valley, USGS crews are in the field collecting data needed to update the flood maps, prepare forecasts, manage the flood and warn communities. This new system is part of the USGS WaterWatch suite of web-based streamflow products and can be accessed at the Map of flood and high flow conditions Web site. Read the entire story at www.geocomm.com.
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AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

Map your assets with Google Maps mashup - Cemetery gMap and Office gMap

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 9:33pm CEST

Tags: google maps

Leave it to another Canuck, Mark Laudon, to come up with a couple of more interesting ways that people can mashup their assets via Google Maps. Mark has put together a couple of clever demos to give...

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GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems

Glossies via Google Maps

Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:39am CEST by Caitlin

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It’s always interesting to come across a non-geographic use for geographic technology. Zkimmer, which uses the tagline “the visual web”, is promoting reading magazines using Google Maps. The technology is experimental and several sample magazine issues from 2007 are available for browsing using the standard pan and zoom tools typically used for navigating [...]

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

London Profiler themes maps with freeware GMap (Google map) Creator

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 6:42pm CET

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This interesting story comes out of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London courtesy of the BBC. Using a freeware app know as the Google Map Creator, a team of clever...

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MapIconFactory 1.0

Posted: March 27th, 2008, 5:38pm CET by Caitlin

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Now available in the open source utility library, MapIconFactory v1.0 enables you to more easily create variably sized and colored markers for your Google Maps mashup. This post over at the Official Google Maps API blog has more information including their Google Maps Election demo.

AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

ArcGIS Server Code Challenge Winner combines ArcGIS Server 9.2 technology with Google's Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:27pm CET

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Just heard from Alex over at GCS Research in Montana... Alex tells me that his crew picked up a prize in the 2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. The company was recognized innovation in combining the...

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Slashgeo

Physical Map of the World and Flex Projector

Posted: March 19th, 2008, 4:20pm CET by Satri

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The Map Room made me aware of a beautiful large and free physical map of the world and Flex Projector: "Flex Projector is a freeware, cross-platform application for creating custom world map projections. The intuitive interface allows users to easily modify dozens of popular world map projections—the possibilities range from slight adjustments to making completely new projections." From the Physical map of the world: "This site offers a free map of the world with detailed 3D topography, natural environment colors, and thousands of place name labels. You can view the map interactively online or download it to disk for printing as a wall map. [...] CMYK JPEG (quality level 10), 17,010 x 9,720 pixels, 270 DPI" We discussed the U.S. free map from the same site 1.5 year ago. See also related stories below for other similar tools.
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OpenStreetMap Grants - Money for Free Maps

Posted: March 18th, 2008, 6:54pm CET by Satri

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Nick writes "CloudMade announced details of their OpenStreetMap Grants scheme yesterday. The idea is simple — anyone can apply for grants of £100 — £1000+ to support useful, interesting or innovative work around OpenStreetMap. This could be anything from squashing OSM’s 10 most annoying bugs to mapping an entire city to building an OSM community from scratch to writing a new mapping client. The grants scheme is open to anyone regardless of location — all ideas are considered and the chosen entries will be announced on CloudMade's blog." Recent OSM related stories copied below, but a lot more with a search.
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AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

Fluid Eearth, custom pinstripe topo Bowl - and a tip on the FME UC summary

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 12:43am CET

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Thanks (again) to Peter Batty for a very cool tip (actually he has many of them!) This one is a little odd and fun as Peter provided a pointer on his blog to a company that produced a decorative...

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A great local (New York) search Google mashup from OutAlot

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 5:24pm CET

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Heads up, another cool, local search utility has hit the web - enter OutAlot. This clever Google map mashup is currently only providing information in New York (hopefully more places will be added...

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Slashgeo

Online Historical Atlas of Canada

Posted: March 5th, 2008, 10:37pm CET by Satri

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The Map Room links to the Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project. From the site: "Now, the Online Learning Project makes many of the maps and much of the research data created for the Atlas available online. Interactive mapping lets one actively explore the data and themes presented. Map Tours help users navigate a number of these themes easily and effectively."
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FAO Country Profiles Maps

Posted: February 28th, 2008, 10:54pm CET by Satri

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The EOPortal website mentions the value for African countries of the FAO Country Profiles maps. To access the maps, select a country and then choose "More maps..." in the right-side column. From EOPortal: "The website profiles fantastic maps for African countries on topics such as: administrative boundaries, sustainable development (ie population, temperature and rainfall), economic situation, agriculture sector (ie relief, livestock, arable land, land cover), forestry sector, fishery sector and technical cooperation. The system offers decision-makers around the world a fast and reliable way to access country-specific information without the need to search individual databases and systems. It gives added-value to FAO's vast store of information by providing an easy-to-use interface with particular emphasis on interactive maps and graphics."
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Maps as Political agent

Posted: February 27th, 2008, 9:06pm CET by gignacnic

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From the PPGIS.net Blog : an Atlas of Radical Cartography published by The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, makes an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism. It pairs writers with artists, architects, designers and collectives to address the role of the map as political agent (rather than neutral document). Ten mapping projects dealing with social and political issues such as migration, incarceration, globalization, housing rights, garbage and energy issues, are complemented by 10 critical essays and dialogues responding to each map.
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Google 'Static' Maps API

Posted: February 21st, 2008, 11:25pm CET

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Google 'Static' Maps API

"The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your webpage without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading."

Pro's:
1. No Javascript
2. Works on standard webpages
3. Designed for mobile/cell device developers
4. Normal and Mobile Map Types
Con's
1. Limited to only 1000 unique image requests per user per day.
2. Limited function, non interactive
3. GIF-format only
4. Very long urls
Source:
[googlemapsapi.blogspot.com] Mapperz News Blog

Slashgeo

National Geographic Map of the Day

Posted: February 21st, 2008, 6:55am CET by Satri

Tags: maps

The Map Room informs us National Geographic now publishes a map from their collection, with explanations, everyday. From the MyWonderfulWorld blog: "“Map of the Day” highlights a pivotal historical event for each day of the year, along with an interactive map. The maps are adapted from an array of sources including the Society’s own annals, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. An engaging quiz question adds an additional layer of fun—and mental stimulation—to each map and written description."
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Live-Demo für Windows Live

Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:13pm CET by Administrator

Tags: Earth & maps

Eine interssante Live-Demo für Windows Live stellt GeoPortals des Tourismusverband Ostbayern statt. Ein Beta-System finden Sie unter [maps.ostbayern-tourismus.de] .
Zum Technischen Hintergrund: Die hier verwendete eContent.M@ps ist ein auf Microsoft Windows Live sowie offenen Standards wie GeoRSS und WMS-Services basierendes XML-GeoPortal Framework zum Aufbau moderner Mashup’s.
Die Ausführung in einer aktuellen Version von Internet Explorer wird empfohlen.

Slashgeo

Apple Bringing Maps to iPods?

Posted: February 18th, 2008, 10:12am CET by Satri

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mcknut writes "Apple have recently filed a patent application that suggests that they may be intending to bring map downloads to their iPod line using a technology they've called 'podmaps'. I actually knocked up a ruby script to do this a few years ago and I've put together a blog post with a bit of explanation, some examples, and a link to download the script. Get 'podmaps' on your iPod now." A few related stories copied below.
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Can a Robot Draw a Map?

Posted: February 13th, 2008, 7:49pm CET by gignacnic

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Can a Robot Draw a Map? This is a simple question scientists have tried to resolve recently... See this article on "GIS Lounge" named "Robots in Cartography".
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Nokia's Maps 2.0 now in Beta

Posted: February 11th, 2008, 5:32pm CET by gywright

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BBC News writes about Nokia's Maps 2.0 beta release. Some exerpts from the article: * "Nokia is taking navigation services out of the car so it can always be with you," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, president and CEO of the firm. * "Nokia's announcement underlines its belief that GPS chips will become as ubiquitous in mobile phones as cameras. It has already made a $6bn (£3bn) investment in mapping company NavTeq to show that it is putting its money where its mouth is." * Mr Kallasvuo said: "Navigation is one of the foundations of the context-aware mobile phone. We believe it will be as important as voice capability was 20 years ago."
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AnyGeo - Anything Geospatial

TN Tornado Damage Google map

Posted: February 8th, 2008, 4:32pm CET

Tags: google maps

Theron from GeoJobe pointed out to me that so far he's only managed to come up with this one map showing effects and recovery from this week's tornados in the south. Seems the elusive "Jared" has...

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Google Mashup Mishmash

Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:15pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

The Google Maps Mania Blog has a list of “100 Things to do with Google Maps.” The list is an interesting study on how many different types of uses people have come up with to map out. On the list are some very practical mashups including the Satellite Dish Pointer which helps you properly align your [...]

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OpenStreetMap Licence and News Wrap-Up

Posted: February 5th, 2008, 6:43pm CET by Satri

Tags: maps

Here's a wrap-up of last month's geonews regarding OpenStreetMap. First is a long discussion on the licence attributed to data contributed to the OpenStreetMap project, an exert: "Many of the problems arise because Creative Commons (the “CC” of our licence), as the name suggests, is largely concerned with “creative works” - music, literature, art, and so on. OpenStreetMap, on the other hand, produces data: a factual, uncontroversial recording of the world around us. [...] In the [Science Commons initiative] protocol, Creative Commons restates the problem that copyright simply does not apply universally to factual information." Then there's an update on Nestoria, the first commercial application now using exclusively OSM data. We also have Google's Ed Parsons discussing the differences between data in Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. Other OSM entries include a short discussion on the community surrounding OSM vs "old timers", a mention of OSM during the KDE 4 keynote, a visual comparison of Google data vs OSM + OpenAerialMap data over China, a short account of using JOSM, the advanced OpenStreetMap editor, and finally, the announcement of this year's State of the Map 2008 conference will be held in Ireland. See also the numerous related stories below (more if you search the Slashgeo archives). On a personal note, I used to say about OSM that data is particularly useful in Europe, but not in North America yet... after a quick peak today at the status of OSM completion in NA, I admit I'm impressed, data has been added very rapidly and this is obviously great news for public domain data.
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Census Atlas of the United States

Posted: February 4th, 2008, 6:03pm CET by Satri

Tags: maps

The Map Room introduces the Census Atlas of the United States, fully available free as a PDF. From the press release: "The atlas, with more than 700 full-color maps, is the first general population and housing statistical atlas published by the Census Bureau since 1925. Featuring more than 300 pages and weighing about 7 pounds, the atlas presents data from 1790 through 2000. It is arranged by topic and grouped into three general themes — who we are, where we come from and what we do. Most maps feature county-level detail for the United States and Puerto Rico."
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World Map of Undersea Internet Connections

Posted: February 4th, 2008, 4:22pm CET by Satri

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Slashdot discussed the how one clumsy ship caused a major Internet outage with this summary: "Here is an interesting world map of various [undersea] Internet connections, showing how it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions." A day later, the same site discussed the effects of the fibre outage throughout the Mediterranean. Vector One also covers the story and links to another undersea Internet connections map. I copied below some previous maps of the Internet.
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WSJ on the Tele Atlas & NAVTEQ Duopoly

Posted: January 31st, 2008, 7:56pm CET by Satri

Tags: maps

The Map Room links to a Wall Street Journal article on the digital roads duopoly between NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. From the article: "Neither bid could be justified by the financial performance of the companies -- Navteq is modestly profitable while Tele Atlas is losing money -- but analysts say the buyers were willing to pay a "strategic premium" because of the value of mapping data to all players in the GPS industry. Now investors and regulators are raising questions about the implications of the two deals." See also related stories below.
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Why Are so Many Paper Map Products Still Produced?

Posted: January 30th, 2008, 11:28pm CET by Satri

Tags: maps

Early this month Vector One and Spatial Sustain discussed why are so many paper map products still produced. From V1: "The primary reason that this is the case is due to the fact that paper maps are associated with user needs. [...] In this sense, maps are not just data, but they are derived products from technologies and systems capable of creating and processing spatial information, all of which become useful and interesting output for a wide variety of users. [...] We have not placed enough effort into understanding why hard copy maps are of value, particularly from a cultural and historical perspective, and how we can go about shifting that value into a fully digital framework - not just technically. This is a major impediment toward moving into an all-digital map environment." From SS: "When information is compressed to bits and bytes it can travel vast distances and can pass through many hands without degradation. It can be copied and amended and can spawn countless personalized interpretations without harm to the original. Digital data unlocks the power of the information rather than locking in the knowledge within one static view." Related and more recently, All Points Blog mentions the closing of paper maps producers and the use of camera phone images of paper maps as LBS interface. This topic has been discussed previously, see related stories below.
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GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems

Displaying Google Calendar Events on a Map

Posted: January 30th, 2008, 9:20pm CET by Caitlin

Tags: google maps

If you maintain a Google calendar with events in different locations, Tony Hirst points out a simple way to display your events in Google Map through the use of Yahoo Pipes in order to geocode the Google calendar feed. The resulting pipe displayed can be extracted from Yahoo map as a KML feed URL which [...]

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Posted: May 17th, 2008, 3:51pm CEST

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Posted: May 12th, 2008, 8:58pm CEST

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Posted: May 1st, 2008, 5:56pm CEST

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Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:26am CEST by Administrator

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Posted: April 24th, 2008, 8:30pm CEST by Sunburned Surveyor

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Posted: April 20th, 2008, 8:33pm CEST by Administrator

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Posted: April 16th, 2008, 3:34am CEST by lxnyce

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Posted: April 15th, 2008, 10:08pm CEST by Satri

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Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:57pm CEST by Satri

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Posted: April 7th, 2008, 8:34pm CEST by Sunburned Surveyor

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Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 9:33pm CEST

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Posted: April 2nd, 2008, 5:39am CEST by Caitlin

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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 6:42pm CET

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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 5:38pm CET by Caitlin

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Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:27pm CET

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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 4:20pm CET by Satri

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Posted: March 18th, 2008, 6:54pm CET by Satri

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Posted: March 12th, 2008, 12:43am CET

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Posted: March 11th, 2008, 5:24pm CET

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Posted: March 5th, 2008, 10:37pm CET by Satri

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Posted: February 28th, 2008, 10:54pm CET by Satri

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Posted: February 27th, 2008, 9:06pm CET by gignacnic

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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 11:25pm CET

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Posted: February 21st, 2008, 6:55am CET by Satri

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Posted: February 20th, 2008, 8:13pm CET by Administrator

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Posted: February 18th, 2008, 10:12am CET by Satri

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Posted: February 13th, 2008, 7:49pm CET by gignacnic

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Posted: February 11th, 2008, 5:32pm CET by gywright

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Posted: February 8th, 2008, 4:32pm CET

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Posted: February 6th, 2008, 10:15pm CET by Caitlin

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Posted: February 5th, 2008, 6:43pm CET by Satri

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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 6:03pm CET by Satri

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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 4:22pm CET by Satri

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Posted: January 31st, 2008, 7:56pm CET by Satri

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Posted: January 30th, 2008, 11:28pm CET by Satri

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Posted: January 30th, 2008, 9:20pm CET by Caitlin

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