Sam Kome wrote:
> trouble: U.S. industrial parks can have zip codes, even post
> offices, with
> location attributes aliased to another post office that could
> be miles
> away. So they geocode like a P.O. box at another branch. I
> bet there's a
> good name for this phenomenon; I call it by any one of several
> four letter,
> unrepeatable words.
With the rise of the electronic networks and things like new
phone numbers no longer necessarily being tied to geography and
"addresses" in cyberspace that can be anywhere in meatspace (and
judging by some people's email headers, in Time as well), we are
going have to come to grips with a very interesting conflation
problem. But just how necessary is a real-world map to people
who's businesses are conducted more and more in a different space
altogether? Are we ready to apply GIS to these worlds? Is our
software? What do you bet we'll have a growing need for mapping
tools and techniques that can negotiate information terrains and
network "roads" of the Internet?
NPR did a story today on how different mapmaking is these days
compared to the those of the 15th century, and though their
comments on computer mapping and remote sensing were accurate,
they don't see what's coming!
- Bill Thoen
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