Popular GIS: a webliography

Slide 1: Popular GIS: a webliography – Chris Hammond-Thrasher, USP Library Popular GIS: a webliography Chris Hammond-Thrasher USP Library Citations are provided roughly in the order in which they appear in the presentation. Geonames http://www.geonames.org/ Community maintained database of place names. In some ways, this is the Wikipedia of place names. Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Free digital photograph storage and hosting site. Includes support for geotagging of photographs. Alberta Vegetation Inventory http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/land/g_data-catalogue_avi.html A forestry-centred inventory of vegetation in the Province of Alberta, Canada. Google Earth http://earth.google.com/ An easy to use interactive GIS application based on satellite imagery covering the entire globe to varying degrees of resolution. Includes elevation in 3D rendering of satellite imagery. Requires the installation of the Google Earth client. Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ A web based GIS application that includes searching by street addresses, roadmap directions and many other features. Frappr http://www.frappr.com/ A social mapping application. Communities can create maps collaboratively to share spatial information or locate objects or individuals. Dragon Go Server http://www.dragongoserver.net/ A “turn based” game server for the game of go/weiqi/baduk. MSN Mapd and Directions http://www.mapblast.com/ Microsoft’s answer to Google Maps. Also a very good resource. 1

Slide 2: Popular GIS: a webliography – Chris Hammond-Thrasher, USP Library Yahoo Local http://maps.yahoo.com/ Yahoo’s answer to Google Maps. Also a very good resource. Geocaching.com http://www.geocaching.com/ The geocaching site that started it all. SketchUp http://www.sketchup.com/ A 3D modeling tool for use with Google Earth. Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/ The largest community maintained encyclopedia on the web. Hi5 http://www.hi5.com/ An social networking site that is very popular in the English speaking southern hemisphere. LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/ A blog-centred online communitysite. WordPress http://www.wordpress.com/ A popular blog site and blog software package. Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ A popular social networking site with a focus on security and privacy. Look for me here. Myspace http://www.myspace.com/ The most popular social networking site on the web. Myspace has become the focus of a great deal of online marketing investment in recent years. Blogger http://www.blogger.com/ Google's blogging software package; the software that runs the blogspot.com domain that has been so notable in recent Fijian news. Look for my blog at http://dfiji.blogspot.com/ . 2

Slide 3: Popular GIS: a webliography – Chris Hammond-Thrasher, USP Library TypePad http://www.typepad.com/ Another blog site and software package. del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ The most popular social bookmarking site on the web. You can see my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/thrashor/ . Open Street Map http://www.openstreetmap.org/ A map of the world that can be edited and annotated by anyone. The Wikipedia of GIS. They are currently asking users to submit data traces from their personal GPS units in order to build their path data layer. Howfarisitometer http://maps.simonbuckle.com/ Estimates the real world lengths of paths drawn on Google maps. Buzztracker http://www.buzztracker.org/ Buzztracker extracts place names from news stories, looks them up in geonames, and maps the location density of the daily news. Tagzania http://tagzania.com/ Tagzania, somewhat like del.icio.us, is a social bookmarking site, except that the shared bookmarks are virtual pins in virtual maps. Maplib http://www.maplib.net/ Tagzana with a twist. This time you are not tagging spatial data based on the planet Earth, you are tagging locations on two dimensional images that you provide. This image could be a map of an imaginary world, your house, your cat, or anything else. Nicholas Schiller http://nikolasschiller.com/blog/ The web site of an American artist that uses digital maps in his work. Mcluhan, M. The Gutenburg Galaxy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. (A dusty old book.) 3

Slide 4: Popular GIS: a webliography – Chris Hammond-Thrasher, USP Library Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/ All of the creative images used in this presentation are available under a Creative Commons license and used with attribution. My gratitude goes out to all of the artists who's work I have included. 4