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Conclusions on Geolocation

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One of presentations given in "Where's the University?": building an institutional geolocation service: Janet McKnight and Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University Computing Services- parallel session given ...

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Conclusions on Geolocation Presentation Transcript

Conclusions Sebastian Rahtz and Janet McKnight July 2009

Physical mapping Google and Microsoft and all the mapping companies are getting better all the time, but we think physical location collection will be needed for a few years yet.

Time and politics The time and political dimensions of geolocation must always rely on specialist local knowledge

Joining up the dots Integration with local data sources depends on knowledge of institutional data identifiers

Thank you • mailto:erewhon@oucs.ox.ac.uk • http://erewhon.oucs.ox.ac.uk • http://oxforderewhon.wordpress.com