With October the Interfaculty Department of
Geoinformatics – Z_GIS re-launch its GIScience Colloquia series.
Ed Parsons, initially primary cartographer at Google,
now Geospatial Technologist of Google, opened the series with his interesting
talk, entitled: Mapping the world: From pizzas to portals
Ed
Parsons provided insights about how to utilise the benefits of Google's
geographical resources, as well as the future implications of geospatial
technology.
"In
the future, the map won't be a map”, is one provocative statements of his talk.
Adding a map to your website is now
a relatively trivial exercise, but the real value of geography comes when we
deeply embed location as an organising principle for all of
our information. A users location becomes a key contextual clue
in delivering services which are relevant, timely and useful to
individuals.
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