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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Briefing paper on geodata and Web 2.0

Stuart Macdonald, Data Visualisation Tools: Part 2 – Spatial Data in a Web 2.0 Environment and Beyond, DataShare briefing paper, September 2008; apparently posted online October 28, 2008.
... [The paper] aims to discuss and highlight some of the many examples of spatial (or geographic) data mashups using Web 2.0 technologies and geo-browsers and how they are or can be utilised in an institutional or collaborative research realm. It will also touch on neo-geography and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in addition to other open geo-processing tools and organisations which publish and support the use of spatial data in open ways. ...
See also our past posts on the DataShare project.