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See people for scale.https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-23-13.03.37.jpg2019-06-23 13.03.37View from a Crusaders' Fortress.https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-24-13.14.45.jpg2019-06-24 13.14.45Traditional inn.https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-26-15.14.46-1.jpg2019-06-26 15.14.46-1https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-26-21.45.17-1.jpg2019-06-26 21.45.17-1Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut.https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-06-22-12.07.26.jpg2019-06-22 12.07.26In the 1960s, Beirut was the fashion capital of the Middle East.2019-08-24T13:37:14+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/07/03/assessing-the-usability-of-participatory-gis/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-ballatore_et_al-participatory_gis_usability_scale_pdf__page_8_of_24_.png2019-Ballatore_et_al-participatory_GIS_usability_scale_pdf__page_8_of_24_2019-07-03T18:05:39+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/04/03/a-context-frame-for-interactive-maps/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/frame_cities_avigliana.pngframe_cities_aviglianaA Context Frame for Interactive Maps: Demohttps://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/relative_positioning-v2.pngrelative_positioning-v2https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/context-frame-diagram.pngContext Frame DiagramA schematic example of the context frame2019-06-20T07:04:09+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/05/13/tracing-search-geographies-with-google-trends-6-lessons-learnt/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-ballatore_scheider_spierings-google_trends_tourism_pdf__page_13_of_19_.png2019-Ballatore_Scheider_Spierings-google_trends_tourism_pdf__page_13_of_19_https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-ballatore_scheider_spierings-google_trends_tourism_pdf__page_12_of_19_.png2019-Ballatore_Scheider_Spierings-google_trends_tourism_pdf__page_12_of_19_2019-05-13T09:15:29+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/01/02/phd-studentship-at-lshtm-birkbeck-on-food-geography/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LSHTM.pngLSHTM2019-04-05T15:10:56+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/03/18/an-arts-scholar-learns-about-administrative-geography-and-datasets/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/uk-geographies.pnguk geographiesUK administrative geographies (Office for National Statistics)2019-03-18T15:29:34+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2019/02/18/10-tips-for-interdisciplinary-research-careers/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/icons8-omnichannel-96.pngicons8-omnichannel-96https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/interdisciplinarity-e1550088406855.pnginterdisciplinarityTypologies of interdisciplinarity (Frodeman et al, 2017, p. 17)2019-02-18T07:24:36+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2018/12/12/giscience-phd-scholarship-at-uni-leicester-on-data-census/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/phd_sabbata_tate.pngphd_sabbata_tate2019-01-17T14:11:06+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2018/02/15/spatial-approaches-to-information-search/2018-12-20T18:00:57+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2018/07/02/studying-online-trends-in-gis/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-ballatore_-_consumption_gis_web_pdf__page_11_of_19_.png2018-Ballatore_-_Consumption_GIS_Web_pdf__page_11_of_19_https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-ballatore_-_consumption_gis_web_pdf__page_9_of_19_.png2018-Ballatore_-_Consumption_GIS_Web_pdf__page_9_of_19_2018-12-20T18:00:17+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2018/10/22/sonifying-data-uncertainty-with-sound-dimensions/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-ballatore_gordon_boone_-_sonifying_uncertainty-j_pdf__page_11_of_17_.png2018-Ballatore_Gordon_Boone_-_Sonifying_uncertainty-j_pdf__page_11_of_17_2018-12-20T17:44:54+00:00monthlyhttps://aballatore.space/2018/10/24/wikimapia-an-overlooked-source-of-volunteered-geographic-information/https://aballatore.space/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-ballatore_jokar_arsanjani_-_placing_wikimapia_pdf__page_14_of_19_.png2018-Ballatore_Jokar_Arsanjani_-_Placing_Wikimapia_pdf__page_14_of_19_Search index for Wikimapia (purple) or OpenStreetMap (green), based on Google Trends from 2004 to 2017, as eight equidistant bins (accessed on 15 April 2017). 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