The Chronicle of Higher Education has a profile on University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) professor Michael Goodchild called “Inventing the Science of Geographic Information Puts a Professor on the Map“. Mr. Goodchild cemented his place in geography in 1992, when he wrote a paper proposing the creation of geographic […]
neogeography
GIS Industry
What Happened to Neogeography?
With the premise that “online references to neogeography are on the decline” Sean Connin discusses whether this “trend may reflect our growing acceptance of the new mapping democracy and it’s place in popular culture.” Connin looks at the popularity of search terms neogeography, GIS, Google Earth, and Google Maps over […]
GIS Data
Mapping via Cell Phone in Brazil
A Brazilian non-profit by the name of Rede Jovem (meaning roughly “Youth Net”) is helping to map the slums or favelas with the use of GPS-enabled phones and a small team of 17-25 year old high school students: The reporters use GPS-equipped Nokia N95s and a mobile application developed by Rede Jovem […]
GIS Learning
Neogeography
Neogeography means “new geography” and consists of a set of techniques and tools that fall outside the realm of traditional GIS, Geographic Information Systems.