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title: Just Back! + Glossary fill-in time
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description: "Tonight was the first night at Maptime after a 2-week break, following some Burning Man adventures (which involved no mapmaking, unless you count marking friends’ camps on a pre-made maps). We planned for it to be a chill one, which it delightfully was."
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!["Glossary fill-in"](/img/glossary-fill-in.jpg "Glossary fill-in")
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Tonight was the first night at Maptime after a 2-week break, following some Burning Man adventures (which involved no mapmaking, unless you count marking friends’ camps on a pre-made maps). We planned for it to be a chill one, which it delightfully was. Five new visitors showed up, and we all worked on Github entering new words and definitions for the ABCs of Cartography project.
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We also learned some fun new facts, including but not limited to:
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- There are all kinds of chemicals that are named for places:
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- http://chemistry.about.com/od/periodictableelements/f/bltoponyms.htm
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- Polonium! From Poland! Who knew?
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- There is a whole community of people who go and visit integer confluences, a.k.a. places where both the Lat and Long of a place are integers:
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- http://confluence.org/
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- Last but not least, the term wayfinding was coined by an urban planner and theorist named [Kevin Lynch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_A._Lynch) in 1960:
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Next week!
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- OSM 101! More cartographic term defining!
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- **IMPORTANT! We’re moving to Wednesdays!** …so that we can all go to more Geo meetups and any of the other things happening on Thursdays.
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**Want to help us define cartographic terms? [Fill some out on Github](https://github.com/maptime/abcs-of-cartography/wiki/glossary/), and don’t forget to save your work!**

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