Subject: ‘neogeography’
April 16, 2011 Profile of Michael GoodchildCommunityThe Chronicle of Higher Education has a profile on University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) professor Michael Goodchild called “Inventing the Science of Geographic Information Puts a Professor on the Map“. Mr. Goodchild cemented his place in geography in 1992, when he wrote a paper proposing the creation of geographic information science, the study of ... read more March 30, 2010 Geospatial Redux: CairnBUILDER, ArcGIS 10, OpenAddresses.org Beta, GIS WikiGIS News, Web MappingCairnBUILDER: Mapping Recreational Routes CairnBUILDER is a trail mapping tool that helps people plan and map hiking/backpacking/mountain biking routes and trips and then share these maps through an online community. CairnBuilder relies on the ESRI ArcGIS Online JavaScript API to mashup user generated features such as trail routes and cairns (or markers) over a topographic map ... read more November 9, 2009Mapping via Cell Phone in BrazilDataA Brazilian non-profit by the name of Rede Jovem (meaning roughly “Youth Net”) is helping to map the slums or favelas with the use of GPS-enabled phones and a small team of 17-25 year old high school students: The reporters use GPS-equipped Nokia N95s and a mobile application developed by Rede Jovem that uses Google maps. As ... read more January 7, 2007NeogeographyFeaturesAndrew Turner came out with a new publication from O’Reilly Press last month called “Introduction to Neogeography.” What exactly is this relatively new term and what has the acceptance of the terminology been in the Geographic Information Systems community? The advent of “do-it-yourself” mapping applications such as Google Maps API has brought some of the ... read more |
