what happened to the word cartography? Is this not really about different forms, media and ways to do cartography?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Donald Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks, Catherine, for looping us back to the original purpose of this > thread. > > I would like to apply for one of the "Paleo" slots on the Where panel. I > submit as credentials 41 years experience with mapping on computers, going > back to the first "DIME" files in New Haven. I'm 67 years old which puts me > squarely in "paleo" territory. I have been to most of the Where 2.0 > meetings and have puzzled over the neogeography phenomenon for a while. I > may have been one of the first users of the term "paleogeographer", at > dinner with the founders of ETAK during the June 2006 Where 2.0 meeting. > (Me: "what does 'neogeographer' mean, anyway". Marv White: "well, 'neo' > means 'new' so it's 'new geographer'. Me: "oh, so that makes me a > 'paleogeographer', right?") > > I give a lot of keynote talks at state GIS conferences, and my stump speech > for the past year has been about "Neogeography and the Google Earth > Revolution". (I know it's not just Google, but the "Microsoft Live Local > Beta Virtual Earth Revolution" is too much of a mouthful.) > > My intent in these talks is to present two observations: > > 1) The "Google Earth Revolution" -- or Neogeography -- is as revolutionary > as was GIS: the means to migrate spatial knowledge from atoms to bits. > > 2) Neogeography is *FUN* and we Paleo-GIS-nerds need to lighten up, untuck > our shirts, and enjoy the revolution! > > I don't see Neo/Paleo as divisive. There has been a second cartographic > revolution and it's great for all of us. I would be honored to serve on > your panel, Renee. > > BTW, I'll also be at AAG and am on Andy Smith's panel: "Concepts, Tools > and Applications: The Rise of Neogeography". My presentation is #90035824, > "Neogeography and Crowdsourcing: the View from a Walled Garden" I think > I'm also a discussant for Mike Goodchild's plenary on crowdsourcing. > > I sure hope they don't make any of those AAG sessions concurrent. > > ****** Don Cooke, Chief Scientist, Tele Atlas **************** > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > -- Tracey P. Lauriault 613-234-2805 https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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