March 25, 2011 Mapping – what, how, where

Issues

  • Geocoding partial addresses or more importantly, non-existing or destroyed buildings/addresses.
  • Choosing a mapping approach: scientifically accurate or obviously vague
  • Choosing a display style: point data or area based (area based emplies manually drawing/plotting the points)
  • Understanding the content you have and the needs of the users

Tools

Best tool to plot data and especially other peoples data: www.geocommons.org

Free geocoding service (uni): webgis.usc.edu/

Wikipedia project:
(Work in Progress): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

www.geonames.org/

toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?params=40_8_33_N_76_43_10_W

webgis.usc.edu/Default.aspx

developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/

www.ehow.com/how_5798916_add-data-google-maps.html

(Draw regions and export to XML using scribblemaps)
www.scribblemaps.com/

Factual (t.co/9IQE5XY) offers datasets accessible through an API or can be downloaded. Any data relevant to humanities?

StreetMuseum project (very interesting youtube demo of an iphone app)

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  1. Spring of DH – THATCamp Florence | Wilko von Hardenberg says:
    August 1, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    […] that no coordinator was found for the foreseen GIS BootCamp session, but luckily my proposal for a GIS atelier got enough votes to get organised. I had thus the exciting opportunity to discuss with other […]

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