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All the World is a Map

wired.com — A conferenace for "neogeographers," -- a generation of coders whose work is inspired by easily obtained map data, as well as the mashups made possible by Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth.

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  • l0ne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"All the world is a map."
    Well, duh. As long as we have "map" meaning a representation of the world, and we accept that the world is a possible representation of itself (also the most accurate)... :)
  • brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8A conferenace, eh?
  • Ottergoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The faster GIS software and applications are developed, the better. ArcGIS, which is currently the standard set of tools for doing GIS work is ridiculously overpriced. GRASS is an alternative, but I've heard bad things about its usability. Good tools are coming out for the mapping end of things, but we need good analysis tools as well.

    /B.S. Geography Major
  • Crimsoneer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty interesting though...the possibilites for google maps are kind of endless really. As for the community which has been developping around gEarth, its also been pretty impressive.
  • Ottergoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cartography is just making maps, which these guys are doing, but they're also doing a lot with data acquisition and GIS. Neogeographer is an appropriate term.
  • hexdoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps neocartographer would be a better term.
  • DwightSchrute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Earth is ArcGIS for the masses. The average user doesn't care about joins, unions, merges, and ArcToolbox. Google actually competed with ESRI a while back on a project (I don't remember the project) and beat them out. It didn't work out for them, and the company went back with ESRI. ArcGIS should strive to become more like AutoCAD in price. AutoCAD is every bit as functional as ArcGIS at what it does, and it will only run you $4000. ArcEditor and ArcInfo licenses will cost you as much as a small car.

    /GIS Specialist.
  • x0980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OSGeo now warns:

    All your world are a map to us. You have no chance to survive make your time.
  • bkumar12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Microsoft's visual earth program is nothing compared to google earth. Dont all agree?(!)
  • crschmidt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amusingly enough, Neogeographer has always been a slightly derisive slang term that Schuyler has used to describe me, which I accept rather than embrace ;) However, it is an accurate term in Lewis Mumford's scheme: he defined, in _Technics and Civilization_, the 'eotechnics', 'paleotechnics', 'neotechnics', from which the paleo/neo geographer word creation is pulled.

    I will agree that neocartographer is definitely *not* the correct term. Although I have performed some cartography (specifically, for the Boston Freemap), geographer is more descriptive and accurate of what I tend to spend most of my time doing.
  • nickm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5what the ***** is this?
  • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5!! This is a subliminal ad for the Neo-Geo!
  • stellla, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0You are having the interesting topic which we have to know about our geography.

    regards:) lisa

    Quality mobile phones

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