irevolution has a good post examining the recent Google Map Maker and World Bank collaboration that is stated as “empowering citizen cartographers”. The devil, of course, is in the details. Read on for a great examination of exploitative crowdsourcing.
After the recent Lightsquared debacle beginning to draw to a close (Spoiler: GPS won), the ever-interesting Spatial Sustain has a great piece that asks the question: ‘How fragile are the networks that we depend upon for today’s GIS?’
The Map Room shows off a great animated map that shows global rising temperatures over the last 100 years or so.
GotGeoint has a post talking of a new US Army UAV that, with its 65 steerable windows, can capture 80 years worth of video footage in a single day. For a better explanation, including a short video, check out the source link.
GIS Lounge have a post talking about Harvard’s open source mapping application, WorldMap, designed to make it easier for users to upload large GIS datasets (up to a maximum of 100MB vector, 200MB raster) and create online maps from them.
In more anti-Google news, Slashgeo points us to a conversation on Slashdot about how deliberate vandalism of OpenStreetMap data has been linked to Google-owned IP addresses in Kenya and India, and asks the question “has Google become too big to effecitively police its ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto?”
And, finally, Directions Magazine has an interview with the emapsite.com CEO concerning ‘geospatial data content licensing and marketing in the era of data as a service’.
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