Weary Mappers

we are what we do ...

if a weary destination is part of your near-term temporal visualization...
consider:
Weary Traveler Inc
1201 Williamson St, Madison, WI
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=yp.YN945x16187475
{if you've got the new beta virtual earth installed, you should give it a spin at above URL..
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/11/07/152247.shtml }

about 5:30ish , post-working, post-voting, ex post facto either way -- in order of priority...
Action
1) please vote. need a map ? http://www.cityofmadison.com/clerk/voterWhere.cfm
(talk about a mashup opportunity...!?)

Abstraction
- I was struck by a recent forwarded link to map discussion blog
at the fate of Wisconsinites in an envisioned reversal of fortune...
- for our compassion, we become not part of the anti-war mountain
camp; but the UNICEF refuge..
(likely better than being the jewel of the English colony ; )
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/15-divided-states-of-america/

as for satisfaction _ please do and don't be
In recent discussions of the democratization of, future of, technology of,
and art of cartography...
i was pleased to hear a remark regarding seeing cartography as process
not product...  which has overlap with my own belief that cartography is
(in part) what cartography does... libraries are middleware switchboards.

which leads me to a remark by a co-worker questioning ... when will be
done evolving the process and just focus on content; to which i must
humbly answer - probably never...
Masser too sees part of the evolution of spatial data infrastructure as
moving from piece and part to interconnectivity and process...

So we too must accept then that we are part of a process, and evolutionary
process... the evolution of cartography - and the last thing one can do under
that circumstance is assume that we have, can do or know all that we will
need in order to continue to participate - do not be oversatisfied or compacent...
lest it become less democratic and not more ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6108578.stm

sounds a bit like governance and motivation to vote, eh ?
how many thoughtful, intelligent mappers does it take to change the world ?
with ethics of course... note those to society (as updated as of 11/1/06)
http://www.gisci.org/Ethics_and_Conduct/rules_of_conduct.aspx

post-modern links w/ no explanation, or
oh, the places you'll go...

Map24/Mapsolute OGC/GeoRSS demo...  earthquakes work well.
http://devnet.map24.com/ogc/georss

James Bond _ on location _ in google earth...
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/10/james_bond_dvd_promo.html

on Platial and whether everyday people with a webserver can do this...
http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/2060-.html

NY Times notes photo geotagging...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02basics.html?8cir=&_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&emc=cir&adxnnlx=1162930607-dputmtuZJELrhGPnhv+8EA
and smugmug shows you how to hack/mashup your content in their framework
including temporal timeline integration with geotagged photos....
http://www.smugmug.com/hack/maps-overview

on pseudo-public-sector mashup services ...  OpenWisconsin anyone ?
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39163696,00.htm

Wisconsin hate groups in 2005:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/index.jsp?S=WI&m=4

and one technologist's  top 10 non-google web consumer things...
http://lifehacker.com/software/maps/technophilia-top-ten-nongoogle-map-innovations-211149.php

finally, if you're a veteran of Scarpace's Orthomapper era, i invite you to download
Microsoft's Mapcruncher, compare something like a .pdf floodplain map from online to virtual earth,
register points, do an affine transformation and build pyramid tiles for webdelivery in mashup form...
... results reminiscent of some of Rumsey's projected georeferenced historical scanned maps...
demo forthcoming.

are you weary ?

the mappers

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