Schuyler on mapping the wireless revolution
zool: cf maps.nocat.net - passed that on to landmap
zool: i have yet to figure out what we will actually do during this week
hex: note that the postcode <-> coordinate converter is out of action though!
hex: the terrain tool is rather nice, shows you a graph of the land level between any two given coordinates or postcodes
zool: this looks great; i must ping the geezer
zool:
hex: if only it could show you the buildings that get in the way, too! still, v nice
Kake: Doesn't seem to actually do anything other than validate, store and return data, though.
Kake: There are some empty modules so I guess he just hasn't written the good bits yet.
jerakeen: oops.
hex: scary Ted Nelson hypertext algorithm thingy that goes right over my head
hex: enfilades, loafs, crums, disps and wids
Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names
hex: The TGN is not currently linked to maps. Nevertheless, the latitude and longitude given in most records and each record's precise hierarchical placement, provide a "virtual map" for every place in the thesaurus.
Intelligent Mediation of Cultural Information Sources
hex: Cultural artifacts such as paintings, statues, buildings can be classified differently.... To capture the different semantics of cultural information, we are interested in sophisticated classification schemes such as ontologies (ICOM/CIDOC Reference Model) and thesauri (the Getty's Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Thesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN), the United List of Artist Names (ULAN)).
hex: the new smartcard system for the Tube is coming, and it's going to be called... Oyster.
hex: did they hire a dotcom branding agency for that one? Jesus Christ.
hex: public environmental GIS data for the San Francisco region developed at REGIS
hex: see also GRASSLinks in Osaka and GRASSLinks in Australia
hex: utilising the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
hex: GRASS GIS is an open source, free software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality
abstract of a PhD paper about geospatial markup
hex: I wonder if how you can get a copy of this.
hex: apparently presented as part of this conference
zool: relates to the opengis specification and their GML markup language
hex: sadly, original paper is in Chinese, as opposed to abstract