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  1. The 18th-century navigational chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden had a practical purpose, not a representational one, for sailors in modern-day Gujarat in India #navigation

    news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h

  2. Ollie (Block Theme): Untermenüs per Hover statt Klick aktivieren

    Wer das WordPress-Blocktheme Ollie verwendet, wird schnell bemerken: Bei Untermenüs im Navigationsblock muss man zunächst auf den übergeordneten Menüpunkt klicken, bevor sich das Untermenü öffnet. Das unterscheidet sich von vielen anderen Themes (z. B. Twenty Twenty-Five), bei denen ein einfaches Hovern mit der Maus ausreicht. In diesem Beitrag zeige ich, wie man dieses Verhalten direkt im Code-Editor des Block-Editors ändert.

    haurand.com/ollie-theme-unterm #BlockThemes #Navigation #Theme #WordPress
  3. What would be the business justification for making Africa larger than Greenland?

    It's not like the US cared...

    Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

    #Navigation #Apps #Mercator #Maps #UN #Tech

  4. What would be the business justification for making Africa larger than Greenland?

    It's not like the US cared...

    Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

    #Navigation #Apps #Mercator #Maps #UN #Tech

  5. What would be the business justification for making Africa larger than Greenland?

    It's not like the US cared...

    Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

    #Navigation #Apps #Mercator #Maps #UN #Tech

  6. What would be the business justification for making Africa larger than Greenland?

    It's not like the US cared...

    Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

    #Navigation #Apps #Mercator #Maps #UN #Tech

  7. What would be the business justification for making Africa larger than Greenland?

    It's not like the US cared...

    Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

    #Navigation #Apps #Mercator #Maps #UN #Tech

  8. 👍 " Histoires d’épaves " : les découvertes d’une soixantaine d’épaves datant de l’époque de la Nouvelle-France sont relatées par l’historien Dave Noël
    cltr.blogspot.com/2026/09/hist
    #histoire #épave #navire #bateau #NouvelleFrance #archéologie #fleuve #découverte #navigation
    ▶️ Attention ! Observez le voilier échoué sur les rochers du cap Brûlé :
    (Source : gallica.bnr.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France)

  9. 👍 " Histoires d’épaves " : les découvertes d’une soixantaine d’épaves datant de l’époque de la Nouvelle-France sont relatées par l’historien Dave Noël
    cltr.blogspot.com/2026/09/hist
    #histoire #épave #navire #bateau #NouvelleFrance #archéologie #fleuve #découverte #navigation #carte #cartographie #maps #cartography
    #catastrophes #victimes
    ▶️ Attention ! Observez le voilier échoué sur les rochers du cap Brûlé :
    (Source : gallica.bnr.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France)

  10. 👍 " Histoires d’épaves " : les découvertes d’une soixantaine d’épaves datant de l’époque de la Nouvelle-France sont relatées par l’historien Dave Noël
    cltr.blogspot.com/2026/09/hist
    #histoire #épave #navire #bateau #NouvelleFrance #archéologie #fleuve #découverte #navigation
    ▶️ Attention ! Observez le voilier échoué sur les rochers du cap Brûlé :
    (Source : gallica.bnr.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France)

  11. 🚀🔍 Oh no, the sky is falling! Or maybe it's just your #GPS fumbling around like a drunkard 33 feet off course. Scientists are utterly baffled—because, clearly, no one ever expected #technology to glitch, right? 🙄🔧
    sciencealert.com/gps-glitched- #glitches #problems #science #news #navigation #issues #HackerNews #ngated

  12. Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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    theconversation.com/taxi-drive <-- shared technical article
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    doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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    doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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    doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-003 <-- shared paper
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    tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and- <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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    youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcy <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
    --
    H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
    “Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
    Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
    This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
    Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
    In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
    #spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job

  13. …During pursuit, sweeps narrow and track a moving target; after sudden target changes, they reorient before the animal turns; during backward locomotion, they reverse; and even during #REM sleep, sweep structure is modulated.

    A fascinating view of #ThetaSweeps as an attention-like mechanism for querying #CognitiveMaps in real time.

    #Neuroscience #Hippocampus #GridCells #PlaceCells #Navigation

  14. Finally out, and this sounds like a beautiful one from the Moser lab: New #Science paper (unfortunately behind a paywall💰) on #ThetaSweeps in the #entorhinal-#hippocampal #navigation circuit. In #rats 🧭🐀, these #theta-locked sweeps are not fixed scanning patterns, but can be rapidly redirected toward #behaviorally relevant locations. …

    📄 science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #Neuroscience #Hippocampus #GridCells #PlaceCells

  15. Je viens d'arriver sur une ville avec ZFE et je n'ai pas anticipé que je ne peux donc pas circuler partout. J'ai beau cherché je ne vois pas d'option dans organic maps ou osmand, quelqu'un a une idée ?

    #maps #cartes #navigation #zfe #lez

  16. Sur le site de la revue "L'Histoire", un article de 2019 republié en accès libre :
    "Pour le grand helléniste Victor Bérard, le voyage de retour à Ithaque s'inscrivait dans une géographie bien réelle. Une interprétation aujourd'hui abandonnée. Ce qui n'empêche pas les admirateurs d'Ulysse de continuer à s'embarquer pour reconstituer son périple."
    lhistoire.fr/dans-le-sillage-d
    #Ulysse #Odyssée #MythologieGrecque #Antiquité #GrèceAntique #histoire #géographie #navigation #marine

  17. Das modulare Navigations-System von Orca Electronics ist erwachsen geworden. In Teil 1 des Praxistests geht’s um Installation und Kalibrierung auf der Segelyacht.
    #MFD #Navigation #OrcaElectronics #Praxistest

    floatmagazin.de/dinge/orca-die

  18. Das modulare Navigations-System von Orca Electronics ist erwachsen geworden. In Teil 1 des Praxistests geht’s um Installation und Kalibrierung auf der Segelyacht.
    #MFD #Navigation #OrcaElectronics #Praxistest

    floatmagazin.de/dinge/orca-die

  19. Das modulare Navigations-System von Orca Electronics ist erwachsen geworden. In Teil 1 des Praxistests geht’s um Installation und Kalibrierung auf der Segelyacht.
    #MFD #Navigation #OrcaElectronics #Praxistest

    floatmagazin.de/dinge/orca-die

  20. #Fahrradnavigation - suche apps für grapheneOS, OsmAnd läuft flüssig 😄 macht was ich brauche 👍

    Besonders gefällt, daß ich über Routenparameter (Wege neben) Haupstraßen vermeiden kann. Bei den letzten 3 Routen ist genau die Strecke rausgekommen, wie ich sie mir wünsche: Ruhig, wenig Autos, viel Natur, trotzdem relativ kurz, gradlinig und ohne Umwege.

    Tipps für andere #FOSS apps sind willkommen.

    #fahrradbubble #navigation #fahrradrouten #maps #komoot #osmand #gps #navi #fahrradtour #diday

  21. The Huxe podcast generating app is nice, during my commute, asking a question and listening to a podcast about it. In this case about the question how Ukrainian drones find their targets without GPS.
    huxe.com/episode/23e0e166-61d6
    #drones #gps #navigation #ukraine #ins #ai #huxe #podcast

  22. 🇵🇸 ⛵️En direct des bateaux #1000Madleens achetés grâce à vos dons !
    L'équipe navigation est au travail pour aménager les bateaux, et tout ça c'est grâce à vous, un grand MERCI !

    ✊ On continue : rejoignez-nous, partagez la cagnotte, organisez des évènements de soutien ...
    Faites tourner dans vos reseaux :o)
    Cap sur la #Palestine libre 🫡🏴‍☠️🍉

    #gaza #freepalestine #sailing #marin #marins #voile #voilier #mer #navigation #sailtogaza #flotille #flotilla #mecanique #breakthesiege #blocus #evenement

  23. After about 5 years we finally did it, the next version of is released now!

    github.com/navit-gps/navit/rel

    It brings loads of bug fixes and also some new features :)

    For everyone reading who doesn't know what Navit is, it's a fully offline based software for many different systems. With it also works well on . But we also have an app for .
    The docs can be found here:
    navit.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.7/

  24. "Before postal codes and Google Maps, Singaporeans found their way around the island using actual physical milestones. Senior Librarian Makeswary Periasamy shares more about a “Milestones Map” in the National Library’s Rare Materials Collection."

    medium.com/the-national-librar

    #History #Maps #Singapore #Milestones #Navigation

  25. ☕️ Oh, look, Iran's gotten super skilled at flipping the #internet switch to "off" with surgical precision 🎯. Meanwhile, The Guardian is still figuring out basic #navigation on their own cluttered site 🤦‍♂️.
    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan #Iran #Control #TheGuardian #Issues #OnlineCensorship #HackerNews #ngated

  26. Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils

    LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.

    11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag

    PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look. 

    11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company

    Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.

    #Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac

  27. Japan opened its first osmotic power plant, a groundbreaking achievement that promises to be as thrilling as watching paint dry 🌊🔋. Meanwhile, readers are left drowning in an ocean of "Skip to navigation" instructions, desperately searching for the actual article amidst The Guardian's endless menu #chaos. 🗺️🙄
    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug #osmoticpower #Japan #innovation #TheGuardian #navigation #energytechnology #HackerNews #ngated

  28. 📢 Le mercredi 19 février se tiendra le séminaire "Rencontre autour des luttes locales en Ile-de-France", avec l'Écopolien, @La_CGT, #ScientifiquesEnRébellion et @lessoulevements

    On y parlera de l'aménagement des fleuves et la logistique (#GreenDock, canal Seine-Nord-Europe, Bassée).

    Ce sera à Jussieu, amphi 45A, de 18h et 20h.

    #fleuves #logistique #navigation #greenwashing

  29. #Fahrradnavigation ist naturgemäß wesentlich komplexer als Autonavigation (und die beteiligten Player haben auch weniger Ressourcen). Wer mal einen Überblick haben will, kann diesen Artikel lesen. Ich habe keinen Einfluß darauf, wie oft er gratis aufgerufen werden kann. #Fahrrad #Navigation #Routenplanung #Radtour #Radurlaub

    heise.de/tests/Sieben-Apps-fue

  30. If a #NeuroRat running in a maze hears one of his #PlaceCells activating (from the computer) as he enters a specific location… does the sound become a cue??? 🤯

    #Hippocampus #Navigation #Neuroscience

  31. NASA’s first successful recovery of asteroid samples may reveal information about the origins of the universe

    #Asteroids #Astronauts #Canada #EuropeanSpaceAgency #Japan #JapanAerospaceExplorationAgency #JAXA #Lunar #Mars #Materials #Moon #NASA #Navigation #PlanetaryScience #Research #SatelliteTechnology #Science #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration #Spacecraft #Technology #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #SpaceEconomy

    https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/02/05/nasas-first-successful-recovery-of-asteroid-samples-may-reveal-information-about-the-origins-of-the-universe/