Free Maps & Geodata
Geodaten in öffentlicher und privater Hand werden als wertvoller Asset betrachtet, besonders im Hinblick auf das erwartete Geschäft mit location-based Services. In den USA sind dagegen öffentlich generierte Informationen frei zugänglich (z.B. http://maps.google.com). Eine Alternative sind per GPS-Mapping kooperativ und frei erstellte Landkarten und Stadtplänen (z.B. http://www.bbbike.de).
Problem des Kartenmaterials: z.B. Xpedia-Karten sind für private Zwecke relativ bezahlbar zu lizenzieren, aber nicht fürs Web oder für kommerzielle Anwendungen Alle wittern das Geschäft mit location-based Services, XML.
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- GPS-Mapping a la SETI@home => BBBike (Cornelius Keller) machen das
- Bureau d‘Etudes, Paris
- Gate5 haben Berlin 3D vektorisiert
- TREBOR SCHOLZ | Germany/ U.S.A., Collaborative Cartographies, Situated Mapping
- Jo Walsh: Mapping Hacks. Tips & Tools for Electronic Cartography. By Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh, O‘Reilly, First Edition June 2005 (http://mappinghacks.com/ Blog).
- Freemap. UK countryside, under CC. Maps in US freely accessible, not in UK. While your walking you can annotate the map, „there's barbed wire blocking my path" etc. Download data from GPS, edit it, and upload again to Freemap. This project is aimed at collecting GPS-logs from from people involved and giving the database away to everyone who is interested for free.
- Steve Coast, Zambia: OpenStreetmap Open GIS. Prop. GIS servers are 50-100,000 $. open source editor: U-dig, easy to create overlays. Web-based infrastructure. Problem: there are some maps on the Internet but hidden in portals, different data formats. But: User-contributed data will explode. Google maps will overtake gov. created data.
- http://www.freemap.net/ Korean
- Depameter: Bebauungspläne, Kiezatlas, von Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung mit Vermessungshubschrauber.
- http://www.xmlcityberlin.de/ mit Landesinitiative "Projekt Zukunft", darin u.a. die AG Geodaten und Geoinformation
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Bundesregierung arbeitet an Geodaten-Infrastruktur Geo-Portale im Internet geplant Freitag, 15.07.2005 http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2036963
Google Earth gets attention TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2005 http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/15/business/image.php NEW YORK When Google introduced Google Earth, free software that marries satellite and aerial images with mapping abilities, the company emphasized its usefulness as a teaching and navigation tool, while advertising the pure entertainment value of flying over high- resolution images of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and the Pyramids. But since its debut in June, Google Earth has received attention of an unexpected sort. Officials of several nations have expressed alarm over its detailed display of government buildings, military installations and other sensitive sites within their borders. India, whose laws sharply restrict satellite and aerial photography, has been particularly outspoken. "It could severely compromise a country's security," V.S. Ramamurthy, secretary of the Indian Department of Science and Technology
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