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Mapping: the Next “Big Web Thing”
Tuesday June 10th 2008Filed Under Data Collection, Internet Mapping, Trends in GIS
The Financial Times published an analysis piece that looks at the investment by companies such as Nokia, Google, and Microsoft to amass huge amounts of data mapping out the world:
“Our goal is to make a kind of mirror world, a replica world,” declares John Hanke, head of its Google Earth unit.
Way to go? Mapping looks to be the web’s next big thing – Financial Times
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