lørdag den 10. januar 2009

Cartocacoethes


Som GIS nørd er man vel mere eller mindre ramt af denne 'frygtelige' sygdom ...
/Sik

 
As a GIS nerd you might just as well suffer from this illness too ...
/Sik


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“Cartocacoethes” is, apparently, the uncontrollable urge to see maps everywhere, in everything. It’s a flavour of apophenia, which is the experience of seeing patterns in meaningless or random data (e.g., canals on Mars). A well-known version of aophenia is pareidolia, which is when people see significant things in random patterns (e.g., apparitions of the Virgin Mary). [...]

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