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I’m proud to tell you that the project I worked on last year with Topomancy for the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library has just been released to the Internet. It’s an o…
With the advent of smartphones and tablets - devices users often carry with them everywhere they go - collected location data became a valuable source of
This is the third part of a series of articles that shows how to use several really nice tools to play with open data. In the first article we saw how to take our comma-separated list of google con…
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We have stuff. We use standards to talk about it, and you can too. Here's how. (Context: "augmented reality")
"Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone." "Well, it's my …
From Wired UK: In May 2013, Google's vice president took to stage and announced that Google was aiming to build "a perfect map of the world." An honorable notion with almost utopian connotations -- and why shouldn't it? After all, Google has been at the forefront of leading the biggest change to mapping since the 15th century, when maps went from manuscript to print. Now they're online and taking advantage of satellite imagery, maps are more detailed, accurate and multi-dimensional than they've ever been, but could such a thing as the perfect map ever exist?
This page describes an editor for formal metadata, that is, structured documentation conforming to the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata developed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).
D-Lib Magazine
How do you cite GIS materials such as map, GIS data, and GIS software? Listed here are examples on how to cite GIS work.
Includes some map-viz tools.
Where gazetteers meet GIS software. TEI knows about this problem, but can't solve it all by itself.
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps