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Links List 5.30.08

On May 30, 2008 By Sean Gorman

Are paper maps no more? GIS Lounge reports that the cartography division of the California State Automobile Association is slowly being phased out. The cause for the demise is the widespread availability of online map directions and in-car navigation units which cut demand for the paper maps by 13% in 2007.

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Power Law Distributions of Google Indexed KML: Is the Long Tail the Wrong Tail for the GeoWeb

On April 29, 2008 By Sean Gorman

We made the cross country hop out to Santa Clara to attend Location Intelligence today. The weather is awesome and we just finished the morning workshops. I sat in on Lior Ron and David Minogue’s talk on “Searching the GeoWeb“.

The talk produced many interesting insights on Google’s approach to searching geodata, but one [...]

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Hierarchy or Folksonomy? Is there a Hybrid between Order and Chaos

On April 15, 2008 By Sean Gorman

When we started the very first iteration of GeoCommons in 2005 folksonomies were all the rage and we jumped on board using tags to organize the geospatial data that was pushed into the new platform. During the time we had the prototype deployed we ran into many of the same issues other applications have found [...]

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GeoWeb Metadata Follow Up

On April 2, 2008 By Sean Gorman

First off want to thanks the folk that commented on the last post. Lots of useful feedback and it also highlighted a bit of confusion I created with the first post. The purpose of the first post was not a proposal to create a new metadata standard. Instead it was simply a proposal of how [...]

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A Proposal for a GeoWeb Metadata Implementation

On April 1, 2008 By Sean Gorman

One of the criticisms we received when we launched GeoCommons was the lack of metadata for the content we had collected. Since then we’ve been looking into what would be a reasonable approach to implement metadata for the GeoWeb.

When it comes to GIS data the existing standard is the FGDC’s Content Standard for [...]

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Semantics, Semantics, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

On March 20, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It seems like it is a daily dose of semantic web on the tech blogs of late. Today it was Textwise’s Million Dollar Semantic Hacker Challenge and a few days ago it was Yahoo opening their search platform to support a wide variety of semantic web standards. This has lead to a [...]

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Are Push Pins Inescapable?

On March 12, 2008 By Sean Gorman

It is only fitting that the day after I posted “Moving Push Pins Off the Map” I saw the post on Ogle Earth about a new geotagging icon….which is?

A GIANT PUSH PIN!

With my interest peaked we did a [...]

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