 When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments. |
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 Today the discussion surrounding maps and cartography is growing. The Internet is allowing more people in different places to experience map use digitally through a wide variety of devices. This use is creating questions about maps, mapping and cartography. Editors Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins have gathered togather a collection of contributors, each writing about the changing nature of maps, cartography and their use. The book 'Rethinking Maps - New frontiers in cartographic theory' is not only about mapping today, it describes where mapping might be in the future and provides insightful considerations for thinking about the many changes happening in the pursuit of cartography. |
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 The HP - Press Event 2009 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event included a tour of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Iaac) in the center of the city accompanied by formal presentations from members of the HP Research Print facilities in nearby San Cugat together with a tour and presentations at those facilities. The event highlighted HP's move from being a print company to become a design communication company.
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 The non-profit California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) sued the county of Santa Clara, California in 2006 over the fees they charge for their GIS parcel basemap data. The long battle ended a few months ago, with the court ruling that the county has to end their high fees for data, and pay attorney fees of $500K. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Bruce Joffe, of GIS Consultants in Oakland, Calif., a key advisor to the Coalition.
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Hydro9, Nov 10-12, Cape Town, South Africa
Agritechnica 09, Nov 10-14, Hanover, Germany
2009 ESRI Middle East and North Africa User Conference, Nov. 10-12, Manama, Bahrain
4th International Conference - Climate and Natural Resources, Nov. 10-11, Ismailia, Egypt
Farm Forum Event , Nov. 17-18, Saskatoon, Canada
National GIS in Transit Conference, Nov. 16-18, St. Petersburg, Florida
National GIS Conference in Denmark, Nov. 18-20, Kortdage, Denmark
Geospatial Data Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services, Nov. 25 -27, Hyderabad, India
Autodesk University, Dec. 1-3, Las Vegas
Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (2009)
By Katharine Harmon
This book collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art.
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Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth (2003)
By Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson
This collection of photographs gives those of us stuck on Earth a glimpse of what our home planet looks like from the window of a space craft... and the big blue marble has never looked more beautiful.
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By Gary Sherman
This book will give you an understanding of the Open Source GIS landscape, along with a detailed look at the major desktop applications, including GRASS, Quantum GIS, uDig, spatial databases, GMT, and other command line tools.
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