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Category Archives: maps
Metageography of the Internet
An article of mine, entitled “The Metageography of the Internet: Mapping from Web 1.0 to 2.0″ was just published in Mediengeographie: Theorie – Analyse – Diskussion. It’s an amazing collection, with articles from Bruno Latour, Paul Virilio, Lev Manovich, Saskia … Continue reading
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Urban Informatics
A special issue of Information, Communication and Society just hit the stands and it’s worth a mention here. Yeah, yeah, I have an article in it, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic collection of work on the topic of “Urban … Continue reading
Networked Place
This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture. They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), … Continue reading
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Flickr adds Geotagging option
This new feature from flickr just continues the trend towards emplacing data. Geotagging is just another form of organizing data – using the world as file cabinet. It takes the abstraction of maps, or what I’ve called metageography, and replaced … Continue reading
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Digital camera GPS = Flickr mapping heaven!
There is nothing that can’t be tagged. Don’t you forget it. Link: O’Reilly Radar > Digital camera GPS = Flickr mapping heaven!.
Wired News: Aerial Imaging Swoops Low Down
Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites gather, a small company called Pictometry International has developed an oblique-imaging, geo-spatial system to snap vast swaths of America’s varied landscape at a 40-degree angle from a few thousand feet in … Continue reading
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Television and Google Maps
HBO is getting into the Google Mash-up game. As a promotional tool for the new season of The Sopranos, you can view scences from the upcoming season plotted onto a map. How is this fictional mapping different from the story … Continue reading
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