VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 11 October 02, 2005 Main Topic: Global warming Click for the detailed shownotes
Putting Shapefiles into Virtual Earth
We received an email from a Redmond employee who created a Virtual Earth shapefile loader. This has been pointed to by several sites including James at Spatially Adjusted. If I hadn’t been a slacker for the last week I would have already blogged it… Direct Link Spatially Adjusted: Putting Shapefies into Virtual Earth
OpenStreetMap – open source web mapping project
This is an ongoing open source project based in the UK that I read about on Mappinghacks.com, whose main goal is to provide free geographic data to anyone. openstreetmap was basically started because geographic data is not free in many countries, unlike sources like the National Map here in the US. If you are interested
Online navigating changing our lives
Wired has an interesting article/commentary about how online maps are changing the way we interface our entire lives. I think the next to the last sentance sums up the concerns nicely… “That’s the SimCity trap, emphasizing spatial relationships over more intimate, human considerations.”
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