2024年4月2日 星期二

Georeferencing, lower the boom on. The U.S.-China showdown is just beginning and it promises to be a rough ride.



Each map has been georeferenced, so it is possible to navigate the globe and see the old maps overlapped and adjusted to the satellite images.







The U.S.-China showdown is just beginning and it promises to be a rough ride.


lower the boom on. Scold harshly or punish severely; also, put a stop to something. For example, If you're caught smoking in school, the principal is bound to lower the boom on you , or The new radar equipment enabled the police to lower the boomon speeding .



In other words, Georeferencing means to associate something with locations in physical space. The term is commonly used in the geographic information systems field to describe the process of associating a physical map or raster image of a map with spatial locations.
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showdown
/ˈʃəʊdaʊn/
noun
  1. 1.
    a final test or confrontation intended to settle a dispute.
    "he and his government were lurching towards an angry showdown with their critics"
    Similar:
    confrontation
    deciding event
    clash
    face-off
    moment of truth
    crisis
  2. 2.
    (in poker or brag) the requirement at the end of a round that the players who remain in should show their cards to determine which is the strongest hand.

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