Application of web 2.0 in cartographic education. Is it time for cartography 2.0?

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

Mapping standard for sprint orienteering: standardized competition maps for urban, park and forest areas

Orienteering maps are one of the map products where the symbol set is standardized, no national deviations are allowed. Orienteering has developed a new form of competition which was originally held in parks or urban areas. This competition form is a very short and fast event where good media coverage is possible. The use of parks and urban areas has a significant advantage: it brings the sport into the midst of people and offers opportunities for increasing public and media awareness of orienteering. The international specification for traditional orienteering maps contains symbols for man-made features. However, the symbol set needed revision and extension in order to provide a clear and unambiguous interpretation of urban terrain required for fair competition in sprint orienteering. There are a number of reasons why the mapping of urban areas needs a modified approach compared to that used for the depiction of the 'classic' forested terrain

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Комп'ютерне картографування у вивченні політичних процесів.

Польовий М.А.Комп'ютерне картографування у вивченні політичних процесів. / М.А.Польовий// Актуальні проблеми політики : зб. наук. пр. / редкол. : С. В. Ківалов (голов. ред.), Л. І. Кормич (заст. голов. ред.), Ю. П. Аленін [та ін.] ; МОНмолодьспорт України, НУ ОЮА. – Одеса : Фенікс, 2011. – Вип. 42. – С.43-55The article is devoted to analysis of possibilities and problems of ap- plication of modern computer cartography methods – GIS-technologies – in research of political processes. Some perspective ways and limitations of GIS- technologies application in political science are determined

Standardising basic spatial units : problems and prospects

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Expert systems in computer cartography

The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of expert system concepts to cartographic problems. Expert systems, a subfield of artificial intelligence, are computer programs based on knowledge and symbolic reasoning. The basic principles of expert systems will be explained. Areas of cartography that are most suitable for this new approach of computer-assisted cartography will be identified. Examples of cartographic expert systems will be discussed, problems identified, and future research efforts in the area of cartographic expert systems suggested

New technologies in making orienteering maps

Orienteering maps are special type of maps, which are mostly made by non-professionals. The technology of making these maps (fieldwork, drawing) has considerably changed in the last 20 years. Base maps can be made by digital photogrammetry or airborne laser scanning technology, but the methods of creating state topographic maps (which are used as base maps of orienteering maps) have also changed in the past few years. The accuracy of these maps has also increased to help the users. In the fieldworking, we can use GPS devices (sometimes with real-time differential corrections) for measuring points and lines. GPS devices are available for more than 20 years, but only in the last few years they became used in fieldworking as regular techniques. For faster, but not very accurate distance measurements, we can use ordinary laser distance finders. The orienteering maps are drawn by computer software. In some countries, these were the first types of maps which were created only by computer methods. Orienteering maps are good indicators of how the new cartographic techniques are easily applicable for non-professionals or how widely they are used as everyday techniques. This paper summarizes the milestones of the development of these techniques to understand how we can make these methods and devices more user-friendly and simpler