Empowering Environmental Communities with Google Maps API
Wansoo Im, Vertices, LLC |
The initial Interactive Mapping Rivers project was initiated with the funding from World Wildlife Fund to do a pilot project for various watershed organizations. Current developments of various publicly usable open Map APIs can empower environmental communities to map various environmental data to fulfill their mission statements. This information can include land use, pollution sources, clean up and restoration activities to water quality, flows, natural history or recreational access. This case study will show several environmental organizations currently involved in IMRivers program.
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Open Source Tools for Authoring KML
John Bailey, Alaska Volcano Observatory |
| There are many who have remarked that the development of KML for adding content to geo-mapping applications, in the GeoWeb equivalent of HTML. However, unlike HTML there are currently few applications available that offer authoring of KML through a user-friendly framework. There is particular interest for such tools in the scientific community, which works with large geospatially-located datasets. To meet this need, University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have begun to develop open-source, web-based KML-generating applications. |
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The Power of Future Location for Social Networking
Peter Batty, Spatial Networking |
| This presentation will discuss a new and innovative approach to combining the power of location with existing social networking platforms such as Facebook. Applications in this area have largely focused on a person’s current location, but this presentation looks at how knowing a person’s future location can open up new possibilities and potentially gain a much greater critical mass of users. |
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