Map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "map-making is cartography; see that page for further discussion of the history of maps and map-making.
Map-making dates back to the Stone Age and appears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps is painted on a wall of the Catal Huyuk settlement in south-central Anatolia (now Turkey); it dates from about 6200 BC. [1] One who makes maps professionally or privately is called a cartographer."
Monday, April 16, 2007
Geocoding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geocoding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude-longitude) to map features and other data records, such as street addresses. You can also geocode media, for example where a picture was taken, IP Addresses, and anything that has a geographic component. With geographic coordinates, the features can then be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems.
A geocoder"
A geocoder"
Geocode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geocode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A Geocode (Geospatial Entity Object Code) is code that represents a geospatial coordinate measurement of an exact geographic location and time at, below, or above the surface of the earth.
A Geocode representation is derived from the following geospatial attributes: 1. Latitude 2. Longitude 3. Altitude 4. Date 5. Local Time 6. Global Time 7. Other geospatial attributes such as:
* how the area is coded (number, letter, mixture of both, other)
* which part of the earth is covered (whole earth, land, water, a continent, a country)
* what kind of area or location is coded (country, county, airport, railstation, city)
* whether an area or a point is coded
A Geocode is a all-natural number representation"
A Geocode representation is derived from the following geospatial attributes: 1. Latitude 2. Longitude 3. Altitude 4. Date 5. Local Time 6. Global Time 7. Other geospatial attributes such as:
* how the area is coded (number, letter, mixture of both, other)
* which part of the earth is covered (whole earth, land, water, a continent, a country)
* what kind of area or location is coded (country, county, airport, railstation, city)
* whether an area or a point is coded
A Geocode is a all-natural number representation"
John Harrison - chronometer inventor
John Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "John Harrison (March 24, 1693–March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail by inventing a long-sought and critically-needed key piece in the problem of accurately establishing the East-West position, or longitude, of a ship at sea."
John Harrison - chronometer inventor
John Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "John Harrison (March 24, 1693–March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail by inventing a long-sought and critically-needed key piece in the problem of accurately establishing the East-West position, or longitude, of a ship at sea."
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Blogging my way to a presentation
I have to make a presentation next Friday at SRI, so this morning I began using the Web to gather the images I needed for my slide set. I'll leave an Ant Trail of my journey to "places" on the web where googleimages leads me. AT will stand for Ant Trail stops on the journey.( I found out that blogger will not accept the little AT circle-a sign so I had to use AT)
As we take this journey together, we will meet some interesting "pals" in the blogosphere and I will acknowledge their help with sidebar posts from their blogs where my "nuggets" of images are found.
AT 1. Here is a clip from my Firefox/google search history(the trail is in inverted order).
The first page of search results; where I found the image I needed.
Voila! here's Big Al.
I found this image on David Seaton's News Links: Al Gore: "We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done." along with this cogent summary from David:
I left a thankyou comment for David and linked him hereThoughts Illustrated: Are Crowds Intelligent Life Forms? where my "pal" from the blogosphere The Head Lemur( i don't even know the guy) had this to say on his blog:
As we take this journey together, we will meet some interesting "pals" in the blogosphere and I will acknowledge their help with sidebar posts from their blogs where my "nuggets" of images are found.
AT 1. Here is a clip from my Firefox/google search history(the trail is in inverted order).
The first page of search results; where I found the image I needed.Voila! here's Big Al.
I found this image on David Seaton's News Links: Al Gore: "We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done." along with this cogent summary from David:
"In global warming Gore has found an issue of universal concern and has carved himself a universally recognized position as an authority on it. He did this quietly, patiently and methodically. Even if adopting global warming were only a strategy to recreate his political career, it is such a long headed strategy and so subtly executed that it would prove a capacity of analysis, judgment, self control and execution that have long been (longer than six years) missing from the White House. One thing for sure, Al Gore shouldn't have to beg for the presidency. We cannot turn back the clock or undo the harm undone, but there can be second acts in American life."
I left a thankyou comment for David and linked him hereThoughts Illustrated: Are Crowds Intelligent Life Forms? where my "pal" from the blogosphere The Head Lemur( i don't even know the guy) had this to say on his blog:
" One of the most remarkable things about the Internet is the awesome amount of information that is out here. You can find something on just about anything here. But this place is like a huge library where the shelves are empty and the books are piled on the floor. The pile is getting bigger as another truckload has just been delivered in the backdoor. It is all here, but it has little structure or form."Sound familiar?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Crowd-sourcing - AssignmentZero
Thanks to KoAnn, CEO of Sustainable Life Media, for this important link about Pro-Am journalism. AssignmentZero is co-sponsored by Wired and is an innovative approach to orchestrating conversations between professonal editors and amateur journalists. I believe this editoral approach can have useful application in online interaction between authors and readers of networked books.
Get Involved | AssignmentZero
" To get the project started, Assignment Zero editors have identified some relevant topics and broken them down into assignments - like an interview, research, or writing a piece. Each of the assignments is marked with either a crowd or individual symbol. The crowd symbol means that this assignment is open to everyone -- it's non-exclusive and ongoing. You can add information at any time".
I will be exploring how AssignmentZero manages their Pro-Am integration.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
iinnovate - an interview with Eric Schmidt CEO of Google.
A major driving force for innovation in the Silicon Valley springs from the entrepreneurial environment of the Stanford campus - here 2 bright Stanford entrepreneurs-to-be interview Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google - worth a listen. As Schmidt says " I come to Stanford to teach because I always learn a lot from my students questions'" There are some great student's questions in this interview with the CEO of one of the most successful entrepreneurships in Silicon Valley history.
iinnovate: a podcast about innovation and entrepreneurship: Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
GTD -Because getting organized should be fun.
GTDrawings
From the designer Joan M Mas in the Balearic Islands, Spain - Joan has designed a portfolio of typographic designs and dingbats that could be very useful in visualizing networked book elements. Iwill be contacting her to see how we might work together.
The link to Joan is courtesy of Karen Storer Picture It Solved - a visual approach to thinking
YouTube - Hilary 1984 Spoof Video
You have probably already seen this YouTube video takeoff on the Apple Macintosh 1984 Superbowl ad - My departed friend Fred Hoar, then the PR chief at Apple,felt it was his signature moment in the world of branding - It is clear 23 years later that this commercial "has legs" enought to provide a NewMedia disruption in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes.
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