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Online Collaboration Creates 'Map-Making For the Masses'
The Science Daily site has up a piece on the effect user-generated content can have on map-making. Scientists are appreciative of the data enthusiastic mappers can provide, updating maps on changes in local geographic information. "Goodchild's paper looks at volunteered geographic information as a special case of the more general Web phenomenon of user-generated content. It covers what motivates large numbers of individuals (often with little formal qualifications) to take part, what technology allows them to do so, how accurate the results are and what volunteered geographic information can add to more conventional sources of such information."
Why, when seeing this story, did I immediately think of the search for the "Time Masheen?"
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Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.
If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity
For starters I've placed one on http://ww.com/ , feel free to come and help.
This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.
Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.
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In TFA, they are refering to OpenStreetMap, a wiki-style project to create free street maps. (though this is not mentioned in the summary)
or so. not so far-fetched if you cipher reality into yOUR map-making
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in.
for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it?
we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
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dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.
meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'.
the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way.
the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available. 'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet, & by your behaviors. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable. some of US should consider ourselves somewhat fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate. it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
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Sounds very similar to claims made about wikipedia.
If http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html is anything to go by I suspect web 2.0 maps will have just as many (few?) errors as the dead tree counterparts.
Invaders must die
But what happens when the best of intentions goes wrong?
They have come a long way:
Birmingham
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There aren't that many people maping (1000?), and you can really make a great differance by just adding all pathways you use for your daily strolls..
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Fucking self-aggrandising self-appointed internet police
what a dipshit
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This was presented at the Volunteer Geographic Information conference in Dec 2007, see http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/.
The paper that TFA references can be found at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/position/Goodchild_VGI2007.pdf
Another presentation on Openstreetmap from the same conference is at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/present/Coast_openstreetmap-opendata.pdf
"often with little formal qualifications"
I'm really beginning to dislike the western prejudice that if you have no formal education you are somehow a piece of crap and stop learning and are somehow universally and globally more incompetent then someone with credentials. Anyone can read a street sign and update a map, there are many things people can do just as well and better then experts despite their lack of training, a credential says you worked hard for a particular institution for a period of time and had no extenuating negative circumstances enough to take you off that course.
Their is this religious priestlyness to education that underlies Oswald Spenglers point about the religious conception of societies knowledge.
same spam as ever, but this time it`s time to crash and burn.
fcuk them idiots. they gonna burn in hell.
I've put together a little bookmarklet that lets you use OSM maps on Google maps and Multimap API implementations (and in fact multimap.com). In fact I updated it today and have a new blog post about it here.
It can be really useful when you find a site that has useful data but you want to see that data overlaid on OSM maps. On Multimap's site you can also see routes and lots of other POIs overlaid on the OSM maps too.
Of course not everyone can, uh... update maps. I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps. Like you said, formal education is uh... irrelevant, like South Africa and uh, such as the Iraq. We need to help our education over here in the U.S. and the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for updating the maps.
I like some of the map making efforts that the Brits are engaged in.
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The USGS uses volunteers with GPS to keep the National Map up-to-date.
TomTom's "MapShare" technology lets users correct maps and generate their own content. You can actually correct the problems on the TomTom device when you encounter them, so they're applied to your map immediately, and they're uploaded and shared with other users when you hot-sync your TomTom with your PC. Of course you can also download other user's corrections. You can choose to only use corrections you made yourself, or download corrections verified by TomTom, corrections to POIs you subscribe to, corrections from trusted sources, corrections reported by many people, or corrections reported by some people. Of course (as demonstrated in the following video), sometimes a goof-ball gets ahold of the cheat code, and messes everything up for everybody, so you may not want to download any change that haven't been reported by many people! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2iQX4vJ10 -Don
Take a look and feel free: http://www.PieMenu.com
OpenStreetMap can be loaded on the iPhone and here's the State of the Map Conference wrap up, the OpenStreetMap conference.
And collaborative mapping is big deal. Google recently launched Google Our Maps, which is basically Google My Maps but with collaboration capabilities.
From my previous comment: There's NAVTEQ's MapReporter tool to submit updates to NAVTEQ's data by the casual user, [and also] Tele Atlas' Map Insight and TomTom's MapShare.
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Two sites that are fine examples of collaborative creation of maps and adding info to maps are:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
A from scratch volunteer effort to map the world using GPS, as people visit places.
http://wikimapia.org/
An overlay on Google Maps where people can mark their landmarks and comment on others.
Really really nice efforts.
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Well, first just buy the Time Travel Theory and then build your time machine.
BSD has always operating systems but suufice it Themselves to be a bureaucratic and
The Confluence Project http://confluence.org/ is an international effort to perform a systematic sampling of the Earth's surface, i.e. all those locations where both longitude and latitude has integer values.
So far more than 10,000 visitors have documented more than 5,000 of these points.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL027768.shtml is a link to a paper by a Japanese researcher (Koki Iwao) and his associates: They have used the DCP information to check/verify the quality of the various land cover databases:
Which parts of the Earth is mountains/lakes/forests/rice fields/grassland/etc.?
What they found is that the best of these databases have a hit ratio of just 60% or less.
Terje
(Scandinavian DCP coordinator)
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
http://www.digitalurban.blogspot.com/
The above links to a blog that covers some of the aspects of Google Earth.
Your GPS probably lacks WAAS "is WAAS available in the EU?" And or DGPS.
Both of those will get you down to around 1-2 Meter resolution.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
The european equivalent of WAAS appears to be called 'EGNOS'. Yeah, my GPS doesn't have it. I bought it very shortly after the US switched off the SA thing and I whooped when I realised I'd get 10m resolution!
Well that is your answer. Now some GPS systems with dedicated base stations are now getting down to like 1cm.But they tend to be very expensive.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.