Ken Snyder

Even though I knew this data existed, seeing it spatially displayed so I could easily get the scoop on all my neighbors made me uneasy. Straight from DirectionsMag.com: <br /> <br /> <ul><br /> <a href="http://newsletter.directionsmag.com/users/link.php?LinkID=26199&UserID=71070&Newsletter=401&List=1&LinkType=Send ">Mathew Kane, a doctoral student in the Indiana University School of <br /> Informatics</a>, has generated an interesting Google <a href="http://newsletter.directionsmag.com/users/link.php?LinkID=26198&UserID=71070&Newsletter=401&List=1&LinkType=Send">mashup</a>.

What will be the next public participation technology? Here's one possibility… wireless laptops with electronic ink capability (and built in hand generators to boot!). All packaged to cost less than today's keypad polling devices. Way cool! <br /> <br /> 1. <a href="http://laptop.media.mit.edu/">http://laptop.media.mit.edu/</a><br /> 2. <a href="http://news.com.com/2300-1044_3-5884639-3.html">http://news.com.com/2300-1044_3-5884639-3.html</a><br /> <br /> Too bad they're not for sale, but I'm sure others will follow.

…here comes Joomla. There was a lot of uncertainty about the future of the Content Management System Mambo over the past months. Finally the Developers now left Mambo and started Joomla.<br /> <br /> As <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1851367,00.asp">this article in eWeek</a> points out, "the original owners [Miro], wanted to regain control of the project. The developers, realizing that they were being cut out of executive management, decided to take the code and run…”<br /> <br /> The outcomes might describe the state of open source today.

<p>Yes, we are all riding on the hype that Google Maps started, and the endless possibilities it provides. But looking at it from a planners/geographers perspective, are these possibilities really endless?</p><br /> <p>In the Directions magazine, Adena Schutzenberger points out:</p><br /> <p><a href="http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=906">http://www.directionsmag.com/editorials.php?article_id=906</a></p><br /> <ul><br /> &nbsp;<i>...</i><i> these services (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSN Earth&#x2026;.) give programmers all the tools they need to make maps. Indeed. It may be time again to explore that age old question: what&rsquo;s the difference between map making and GIS? The former is about presentation (&ldquo;a map is a representation of structure, and a structure is a set of elements and the relationships between them&rdquo;). While paper maps are not interactive, electronic maps may be, but that does not make them components of a GIS. GIS, its proponents argue, is more than just mapping; it&rsquo;s analysis; it&rsquo;s exploring what if; it&rsquo;s using models; it&rsquo;s developing more intricate visualizations</i>

<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br /> <tr><br /> <td><br /> <p>My colleague, Chris Haller, has done some great research on online mapping tools/techniques that can be used for community planning and community building.&nbsp; Here's some stuff he discovered on GeoTagging.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Since Google started its mapping service, based on xml and an API open to everyone, a lot of non-affiliated web applications have been emerging that bring GIS and online mapping closer to &ldquo;Joe Internetuser&rdquo;.</p>