LOC DNS information now available

highearthorbit.com now supports the LOC information in its DNS record as discussed in the LJ Article and discussed here. To query the information, go to a command line on a suitable *nix machine, or with cygwin, and type:

host -t LOC highearthorbit.com

You can try out a LOC mapping service provided by Christopher Davis.

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Andrew Turner is an advocate of open standards and open data. He is actively involved in many organizations developing and supporting open standards, including OpenStreetMap, Open Geospatial Consortium, Open Web Foundation, OSGeo, and the World Wide Web Consortium. He co-founded CrisisCommons, a community of volunteers that, in coordination with government agencies and disaster response groups, build technology tools to help people in need during and after a crisis such as an earthquake, tsunami, tornado, hurricane, flood, or wildfire.

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