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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Online Maps That Steer You Wrong |
| Date: |
06/30/2005 11:40:01 AM |
| From: |
Sonny Parafina |
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In addition to Julia's links, the idea of user editable maps has been a
hot topic at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference. For example, Microsoft
will be providing user annotable satellite images. Both google and
yahoo made similar announcements. BTW, the office Google Maps API was
released yesterday. Its way cool.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
sonny
Julia Harrell wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Most of the public participation web GIS projects
> I've heard of usually involve planning & zoning.
>
> I did hear about these projects at the Open Source GIS
> conference in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago.
>
> OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
> London Free Map: http://uo.space.frot.org/?node=LondonFreeMap
> Mumbai Free Map: http://freemap.crit.org.in/
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> There's also this Participatory GIS forum.
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> http://ppgis.iapad.org/
>
> All of this is pretty intriguing, but I really
> haven't had the time to do more than take a quick
> look at these websites and bookmark them.
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> HTH,
>
> Julia
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>>>>>Bill Thoen <bthoen@gisnet.com> 6/30/2005 8:55:23 AM >>>
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> >
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>>So why not create a mapping service that allows two-way
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> > flow of mapping information? Why not
>
>>let the public add corrections and additions to a map service?
>>Why not build a WikiMap?
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>>
>>Does anyone know if something like this exists yet?
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>>- Bill Thoen
>> GISnet - www.gisnet.com
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