In the beginning, geowanking was populated mostly by semantic web
hackers and headmap-locative media types learning about mapping.
Arguably, you could say that open street map, geoRSS, and FOSS4G started
here. Later on serious map pros started joining geowanking initially
from OGC WFS, WMS and map server communities and later from mainstream
GIS shops.
At the very first Where2.0 conference geowankers were officially
outcasts, At later Where2.0 and other conferences, geowankers took more
of a leading role, and are often featured keynoters, and session leaders.
The real turning point was the publication of the Mapping Hacks book by
Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh and a cast of ~hundreds`.
Shortly thereafter google launched gmaps and gearth, and the rest is
history,
On 11/8/10 9:33 AM, Ian White wrote:
reality <sigh>
i'd prefer we create a myth as it could be a much sexier
story--something akin to "your chocolate in my peanut butter" anybody
else have good ideas?
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On 8 Nov 2010, at 09:30, Mike Liebhold wrote:
Joshua Schacter started the geowanking list in 2003 on his own
domain [ [email protected]] - about the same time he started
experimenting with GeoURL. one of the first efforts to geocode web
objects.
Abouyt two years ago, Joshua handed of admin to Brady Forrest,
O'Reilly media who set up the new domain geowanking.org
<http://geowanking.org>.
Mike Liebhold
On 11/8/10 7:51 AM, Catherine Burton wrote:
Hi!
I'm drawing a blank - who started or how did geowanking start?
Thanks,
Catherine
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