Slashgeo: State Of The Map 2011: How To Map The World And Have Fun Doing It!

While the first day of the State of the Map 2011 in Denver was a bang on Business day and Mapping Party, the second part of the Conference has been schedule as the Weekend – Community. During these three beautiful sunny days in the Colorado Capital City, technical development, ethics, grassroots mobilizing effect, quality control, humanitarian mission, symbology enhancement were some of the subject presented and discussed.

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Slashgeo: State of the Map 2011: How to map the world and have fun doing it!

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The State Of The Web Right Now (Humor)

From the launch of Google + to the release of Apple's new operating system, the last few months have been jam-packed with major tech and Internet developments.

Matthew Inman aka "The Oatmeal," does a good job of capturing the roller-coaster ride of changes this summer in this humorous illustration below. Check out the full graphic at The Oatmeal.

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The State Of The Web Right Now (Humor)

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Comment on Made in America: The state of US-based music services by Tom

If so, what's the point of labeling the list with "Made in America" slogan and excluding services that are not US based, yet are targeted to the same US audiences?

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Geospatial Revolution Episode Three from Penn State

Another fine video from Penn State (see http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/)… The third episode explores geospatial technology in the world of security: how new technologies help to broker peace, wage war, and fight crime but can also compromise personal privacy.

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Geospatial Revolution Episode Three from Penn State

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More Thoughts on Location-Based Social Networks and the World Beyond the Nation State

I think creating online user-generated encyclopedias of cities is something that a location-based social network somewhere should be interested in, as it will enable them to enable greater understanding of its users, which I believe is always an obje

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More Thoughts on Location-Based Social Networks and the World Beyond the Nation State

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FOSS4G/Open data Geonews: State of the Map 2011 in Denver too, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, OpenHeatMap, QGIS with ECW, and more

Here's a few recent open source geospatial software and open data news.

On the open data front:

• MapQuest continues to dive into OpenStreetMap
• Here's an interesting graph on OpenStreetMap data accuracy per contributors density
• Denver will host the 2011 State of the Map Conference, at the same place and same month than the OSGeo's FOSS4G 2011 Conference.
• Here's an entry named Wikipedia makes OpenStreetMap more prominent
• There's a few entries a critique of OpenStreetMap, another specifically on city labels in OSM
• The Wall Street Journal estimates Open Source Mapping Poses Threat For TomTom, Nokia
• Here's OpenHeatMap, an online tool for creating heat maps and choropleth maps

On the open source software front:

• Shapely 1.2.6 has been released
• OpenGeo won a contract with UK's Odnance Survey
• Here's an entry on using QGIS on Windows with ECW
• And an entry about kml 2.2 in gvSIG

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Slashgeo: FOSS4G/Open data Geonews: State of the Map 2011 in Denver too, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, OpenHeatMap, QGIS with ECW, and more

Here's a few recent open source geospatial software and open data news.

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Post originale: http://slashgeo.org/2010/10/22/FOSS4GOpen-data-Geonews-State-Map-2011-Denver-too-Wikipedia-and-OpenStreetMap-OpenHeatMap