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  • View Article  Getting at private company activity

    Tamara Thompson provides yet another good pointer:

    ~ researching private companies ~

    By Tamara Thompson Investigations

    Finding documentation on a private business may take a little more digging than uncovering background on a publicly traded company. One of the resources you may have overlooked is the Small Business Administration database of companies to which they've made loans. The returns can include the gross receipts of the business, number of employees and owners.

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) produces a monthly report of its litigation with companies . The online site doesn't have a database but you can quickly create one using Google, giving you an on-the-spot search by keyword of all the posted monthly reports. At the Google search box enter the name of the company, followed by the site to be searched. If the business name is "Amycel", your search would be formulated like this:

    amycel site:http://www.eeoc.gov/litigation/settlements/

    The Google result will return all pages in the litigation monthly reports that mention Amycel. Unfortunately, the online reports only cover those issued since December 2002.


    View Article  And for lovers of maps and historians of cartography
    Bird's eye view maps have long been an interesting perspective for mapmakers and users of maps.  (They have also been a splendid tool for hyping real estate and city development on America's spread to the west, but that's a story for another day.)  Comes today this interesting resource at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/birds-eye-views.html

    Bird's Eye Views

    Tom Patterson of the U. S. National Park Service has published a 32 page paper on the creation of bird's eye views. The paper, published in NACIS’ fall issue of Cartographic Perspectives, is available on his Shaded Relief website and is in pdf format. Also available are numerous examples. From the abstract: “A brief historical review looks at the antecedents of current NPS products dating back to the Renaissance. The practical second half of the paper focuses on how the NPS now designs these bird’s-eye views with 3D software, with an eye toward cost savings. Topics include viewing parameters in a 3D scene, preparing DEMs, modeling buildings, designing trees, and creating environmental special effects.” Patterson points out in his paper that “If the output from 3D software has a visual fault it is the tendency for it to look hyper-realistic—too smooth, shiny, and simulated.” The paper contains numerous tips for the creation of a realistic bird’s eye illustration."

    Thanks again to the http://ccablog.blogspot.com/


    View Article  Still thinking about Christmas gifts? How 'bout a wonderful map projection?
    From "Cartography," the Canadian Cartography Association's most
    excellent blog at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/

    "The self-declared goal of the Map Projections web page 'is to present on-line, as complete a collection as possible, historical published map projections.' Currently there are over 300 such examples, all as black line drawings in pdf format, classed into 7 categories. The map projections were produced using personally developed computer programs, some of which is available for download or by way of email request (see About - in pdf format)."
    For the Map Projection page, see
    http://www.ilstu.edu/microcam/map_projections/


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