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 the ... read more March 21, 2010 What Happened to Neogeography?Issues in GISWith the premise that “online references to neogeography are on the decline” Sean Connin discusses whether this “trend may reflect our growing acceptance of the new mapping democracy and it’s place in popular culture.” Connin looks at the popularity of search terms neogeography, GIS, Google Earth, and Google Maps over time as a way of ... 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 they ... 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 |
