GeoBriefs: Platial No More, Brief History of Ordnance Survey

Posted by Caitlin Dempsey on 3/05/10 • Categorized as GIS News


Platial announced its demise.  The site went offline March 2nd and GeoCommons will be hosting all “geo-data (maps and places) from Platial’s 5 years of neogeography.”  (Via James Fee)  The Platial blog and Twitter account platialmaps live on.

Learn about the Ordnance Survey with their quick “A brief history of Ordnance Survey” page.

Get printable congressional district maps from Govtrack.us.  Find out how they were made on Joshua Tauberer’s Blog.

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2 Comments

  1. John
    March 6, 2010 • 1:10 pm

    The site is not offline yet. (It’s Mar 6.) The blog posts say it’ll shut down when the ISP shuts it down; they don’t know when.

    “The service may go offline as soon as March 2nd (when it happens, it will be due to a disconnection from our internet service providers)”
    http://platial.typepad.com/news/2010/02/geographic-euthanasia-the-end-of-platial-as-we-know-it.html

  2. Caitlin Dempsey
    March 6, 2010 • 1:15 pm

    Good to know. I tried to visit it yesterday and got a white screen so I had assumed it had already gone offline.

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