Idaho Environmental Summit 2008 » Book http://idahosummit.org cultivating a sense of place Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:45:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 The Geospatial Web – How Geobrowsers, Social Software, and Web 2.0 are shaping the Network Society http://idahosummit.org/09/27/the-geospatial-web-how-geobrowsers-social-software-and-web-20-are-shaping-the-network-society/ http://idahosummit.org/09/27/the-geospatial-web-how-geobrowsers-social-software-and-web-20-are-shaping-the-network-society/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:04:00 +0000 Gary Grimm http://idahosummit.org/?p=384 An important book full of articles by experts worldwide, titled “The Geospatial Web – How Geobrowsers, Social Software, and Web 2.0 are shaping the Network Society” was written by Arno Scharl and Klaus Tochterman (Eds.) in 2007. In the Preface they state that “The 25 chapters contained in this edited volume summarize the latest research on the Geospatial Web’s technical foundations, describe information services and collaborative tools built on top of geobrowsers and investigate the environmental, social and economic impacts of knowledge-intensive applications.  Supplemental material including author biographies and bibliographic resources is available from the book’s official Web site at  www.geospatialweb.com ”

This is a screen shot from the Google Earth Geobrowser.

North America in Google Earth Geobrowser.

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