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Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb

, 2013
This article presents an overview and initial results of a geoweb analysis designed to provide the foundation for a continued discussion of the potential impacts of ‘big data’ for the practice of critical human geography.
J. Crampton, Mark Graham, A. Poorthuis, Taylor Shelton, Monica Stephens, Matthew W. Wilson, Matthew Zook   +6 more
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Relocating a Sense of Place Using the Participatory Geoweb: The Historical Document Database of the Métis Nation of British Columbia

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 2015
The interactive capability and ease of use of Geoweb technologies suggest great potential for Aboriginal communities to store, manage, and communicate place-related knowledge.
Jon M. Corbett, M. Evans, Gabrielle Legault, Z. Romano   +3 more
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Harnessing the Chaotic: Using the Participatory Geoweb to Make Sense of Forest Fires

, 2016
Communities in the Okanagan Valley, Canada are increasingly under threat from forest fires due to climate change and expanding urban development into fire interface zones. The effects of forest fires are not always quantifiable ‘hard' impacts.
Jon M. Corbett, Samantha Brennan, Aidan Whitely   +2 more
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Learning from critiques of GIS for assessing the geoweb and indigenous knowledges

GeoJournal, 2020
Geneviève Reid, R. Sieber
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Climate Similarity Search - GeoWeb Tool for Exploring Climate Variability

, 2017
Climate and climate change are among the scientific topics most widely recognized by the public. Thus, climatologists seek out effective ways of communicating results of their research to various constituencies—a task made difficult by the complexity of ...
P. Netzel, T. Stepinski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Einsatz von Geoweb-Technologien im Tourismus

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2010
Wie in kaum einer anderen Branche werden technologische Entwicklungen des Geoweb im Tourismus bereits heute intensiv genutzt. Interaktive Karten und Google Earth haben sich als wichtige Informationsquellen etabliert und sind heute ebenso gefragt wie traditionelle Reisefuhrer. Geoweb-Technologien finden sich in Buchungsplattformen, Routenplanern, Online-
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Privacy, reconsidered: New representations, data practices, and the geoweb

Geoforum, 2011
Abstract Blogging, social networking, and other Web 2.0 practices have sparked widespread debate about the status and future of privacy. This paper examines an explicitly geographical aspect of Web 2.0 with respect to these debates: the geospatial web, or ‘geoweb’.
Sarah Elwood, Agnieszka Leszczynski
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Sozialwissenschaftliche Kartographie-, GIS- und Geoweb-Forschung

KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information, 2014
Unter dem Schlagwort der „Kritischen Kartographie“ hat sich seit den 1980er-Jahren eine sozialwissenschaftliche Kartographieforschung entwickelt, welche die gesellschaftliche Einbettung von Kartographie und Karten sowie die Bedeutung der Kartographie fur die (Re-)Produktion gerade bestimmter Weltbilder untersucht. In jungerer Zeit rucken dabei vermehrt
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From CAD to GIS to the Geoweb: A Natural Evolution

2010 8th International Pipeline Conference, Volume 3, 2010
Computer hardware and software have played a significant role in supporting the design and maintenance of pipeline systems. CAD systems allowed designers and drafters to compile drawings and make edits at a pace unmatched by manual pen drawings. Although CAD continues to provide the environment for a lot of pipeline design, Geographic Information ...
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Geoweb verbindet WWW und physische Welt

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2010
Das Geoweb hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten Trends im WWW entwickelt. Viele Webtechnologien — wie Datenbanken, Middleware und Prasentationssoftware — wurden kontinuierlich fur die Verarbeitung georeferenzierter Daten adaptiert. Die Frage nach dem »Wo« lasst sich bereits fur zahlreiche digitale Inhalte beantworten, die Verknupfung
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