http://www.metafilter.com/tags/geolocation Posts tagged with 'geolocation' at MetaFilter. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:04 -0800 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75527/Geowanking <em>"We can have all the applications and Internet connectivity [...] but that still won't get at issues of lack of electricity and cartographic literacy and suppression of geospatial information by the state and their complicit corporations"</em> reads a recent post on <a href="http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking">Geowanking</a>, a mailing list for GIS nerds. <small><small>[SLMLP]</small></small> As there isn't a description on the list's website, the article "<a href="http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/42839/">Geowankers Anonymous</a>" from 2006 is probably the best place to go to get an idea of what it's all about. Or, just peruse <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geowanking">their archives</a>. The quote is from <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geowanking/3579/focus=3582">this message</a> by <a href="http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/">Dr R E Sieber</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75527 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:04 -0800 discussion geography geolocation geowankers geowanking gis gps mailinglist maps finite http://www.metafilter.com/29350/points%2Dof%2Dlink <a href="http://keaner.net/journal/03-10-08.html">Photographs of New York City</a> overlayed and linked from a <a href="http://www.nycsubway.org/">subway</a> <a href="http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm">map</a>, with the <a href="http://hereisnewyork.org/">photo links</a> specific to the position of the points clicked. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29350 Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:28:13 -0800 geolocation map nyc photos subwaymap the fire you left me