Comment on Wikipedia Is Using BitTorrent P2P for HTML5 Video by Dud3r

sounds like a rip-off of http(p2p)?

Comment on Wikipedia Is Using BitTorrent P2P for HTML5 Video by Dud3r

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Neogeography Is Dead (According To Wikipedia At Least)

Ahh … paleogeography and neogeography; will the battle never end? The latter is a term used to refer to the combining of online mapping with data, incorporating classic cartography and GIS and exposed via Web 2.0 style mashups. The former is a term with dual meanings; one referring to the study of past and ancient geography and one being a pejorative to refer to the opposite and inverse of neogeography.

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

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

WikiBhasha Beta for Multilingual Content Creation Tool for Wikipedia

Microsoft Research launched WikiBhasha beta, a multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia, that enables contributors to Wikipedia to find content from other Wikipedia articles, translate the content into other languages, and then either compose new articles or enhance existing articles in multilingual Wikipedias.