In the 1960s, our view of the world changed when we first saw a photo of it as a lonely blue marble taken from one of the early space voyagers. Now new technology is again redefining our view of our earth. Click on the link below to read the full Wired Magazine article.
| In the past two years, map providers like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have created tools that let anyone with an Internet connection layer their own geographic obsessions on top of ever-more-detailed road maps and satellite images. A host of collaborative annotation projects have appeared — not to mention tens of thousands of personal map mashups — that plot text, links, data, and even sounds onto every available blank space on the digital globe. It’s become a sprawling, networked atlas — a “geoweb” that’s expanding so quickly its outer edges are impossible to pin down. |
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- Posted on
Thu, September 6th, 2007
- Author
Yang-May Ooi
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