[GSDI Legal Econ] New York Times Looks at Citizen Web-Mapping

[Kate Lance]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/technology/27maps.html
New York Times Looks at Citizen Web-Mapping (posted online July 27, 2007) 
(a mainstream promo piece... )
"With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos. 
In the process, they are reshaping the world of mapmaking and collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely to be both richer and messier than any other.
They are also turning the Web into a medium where maps will play a more central role in how information is organized and found." 
 
[also of interest, from a separate presentation by Ed Parson at the State of the Map conference in the UK (14-15 July 2007), a map detailing from where the most user-generated content has been posted on Google's geodatabase, http://www.slideshare.net/eparsons/the-cathedral-and-the-gps/17].
 
So... will 'traditional' government map makers begin to take advantage of citizen-created content to improve the accuracy and timeliness geospatial base layers?


       
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