Application of web 2.0 in cartographic education. Is it time for cartography 2.0?
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Application of web 2.0 in cartographic education. Is it time for cartography 2.0?
Létrehozó:
Zentai, László
Dátum:
2007
Téma:
GA Mathematical geography. Cartography / földméréstan, geodézia, térképészet
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
Tartalmi leírás:
The term web 2.0 was first used in 2004 at a conference where the organizers
focused on the new generation web services. Although web is not software and it has no
versions everybody understood this term and also understood the real meaning behind it.
In the last 30 years, cartography considerable changed and we may think of using a
similar term for our science: cartography 2.0.
Although web 2.0 is not a clear and easily definable term, we can list new features
of the web which has formed this new term. Wiki, blog, RSS, mashup applications, social
networking are the key features (and other less notorious ones are still under development)
which are not concrete applications, but rather philosophies.
Wiki is a type of website that allows the users to easily edit/change some available
content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. Can we effectively use this new
technique in cartography?
Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, as personal online
diaries; they can be part of a wider network of social media. There are some cartographic
blogs available (operated mostly by younger cartographers) which can give new chances
for collaborative work, so they may help the cartographic education.
One of the most prominent mashup applications is the websites which are
connected to GoogleEarth to use their basemaps/satellite images to add their own
geographically located contents. These applications are also used by non-cartographers to
help them to ?make maps?.
Are these new features enough to introduce the new term: cartography 2.0?
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Conference or Workshop Item
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Azonosító:
Zentai, László (2007) Application of web 2.0 in cartographic education. Is it time for cartography 2.0? In: XXIII International cartographic conference, 2007.08.04-2007.08.10., Moscow, Oroszország.
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