I have been thinking about sticking all my photos in Dropbox, but if I do, it will be inside a large trucrypt volume, so that only I can view them. This will be a very large initial upload, but then as I add more photos to the volume, only the new photos will be uploaded (as a few hundred meg difference in the TC volume).
Crappy Dropbox info is here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/28
Err.. It's Tasmania, and yes, we grow opium poppies. I have a small patch in my backyard, the processing isn't so hard but packing it into the little plastic capsules takes ages and your hands go numb.
link: http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/agsci/alkalo/popindus.htm
This means that the only people made happy by it's ability to block terrible shit on the interned will be those ignorant folk with kids most vulnerable!
I intend on filtering my home internet when my kids are a bit older, although I haven't looked into it, either that or ensuring the kids only access to the interned is in the family areas of the house.
Hi there, I am a spatial guy so thought my 0.02 may be worth something. I am not too sure about digitising them, maybe a print shop or as suggested in other posts you could talk to your local university geography department or a government mapping agency
Once they are digital though you need to georeference them. As mentioned in the title of my post, it is easiest to use GIS to do this and you can use QGIS with relative ease. Install it using osgeo4w on windows or the ubuntu ppa for qgis. Alternatively if you have a license then use ArcGIS. If you have a map of the underlying roads for the maps you are digitising then what you do is find points on the roads and match them to points on the scanned images, this provides data for a transformation and will shift the map onto your coordinates.
You rarely need to worry about broken dependencies: they happen, but...
I don't want to hear no buts. I tried installing a nice piece of GIS software (QGIS) which is super easy to install on Ubuntu (apt) and windows (osgeo4w, which uses a cygwin style interface) but on OSX it is a paiin in the arse to get the full program with GRASS (kind of a dependency).
I wish OSX had bloody apt working, not port where you need to wait days for anything to bloody compile, but true package management. I use VLC, Thunderbird, FIrefox, GIMP and all the other FOSS software but it is all independently maneged. OSX is great and stable (compared to Ubuntu) and beautiful but the package management should be fixed.
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