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10th September 2009 - Link Blog

OpenStreetMap: QuadTiles. Fascinating explanation of a proposal for replacing lat, lon pairs in the OpenStreetMap database with a QuadTile-based addressing system.

Posted 10th September 2009 at 3:54 pm

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