Neocartography: Opportunities, Issues and Prospects

The general re-thinking about how to create and distribute information in a Web 2.0 communications world has changed how the general community thinks about information discovery, access and provision. They can now use consumer electronic devices to record, photograph, locate and map  information without the need to consult a professional surveyor, geospatial analyst or cartographer. The traditional model of formal - mainly  governmental - collection, storage and publishing of information is now complemented by a less formal and more personal data collection and publishing model. This includes geospatial information. This type of mapping has been called the ‘GeoWeb’, ‘Volunteered Geographic  Information’ (VGI) and ‘crowdsourcing’. From a cartographic perspective this type of mapping can be termed ‘neocartography’. Neocartography  facilitates data capture, processing and publishing using social software, available via Web 2.0. It empowers individuals – everyday citizens – to map their community, contribute to national and international mapping activities and to build and make freely available geospatial databases and publish their maps in a collaborative manner. This paper addresses how neocartography, and the use of social software on everyday consumer  electronic devices might be integrated with mainstream surveying and  mapping practices to provide products that might be otherwise impossible to deliver due to economic and logistic situations. Neocartography is not about further developing or improving existing approaches, but about looking altogether differently at how data is collected, assembled, analysed and presented. It first provides an overview about how those involved in neocartography collect, store and generate cartographic products that  supplement or complement their more conventional counterparts. It then addresses the opportunities, issues and challenges for the cartography and giscience community that neocartrography poses

The excitation of O2 in auroras

Newly measured electron impact cross sections for excitation of the a 1 Delta g and b 1 Sigma g+ electronic states of O2 were employed to predict the absolute volume emission rates from these states under auroral conditions. A secondary electron electron flux typical of an IBC II nighttime aurora was used and the most important quenching processes were included in the calculations. The new excitation cross sections for the a 1 Delta g and b 1 Sigma g+ states are more than an order of magnitude larger than previous estimates, and lead to correspondingly greater intensities in the atmospheric and IR-atmospheric band systems. The calculated intensity ratios of the volume emission rates of 7621 A and 1.27 microns to that for 3914 A are smaller than obtained from aircraft observations and recent rocket experiments

Alien Registration- Cartwright, Bessie W. (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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The use of family conferences at the psychiatric clinic of the Children's Medical Center

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston UniversityThis is a study of 1) the ways in which family conferences are used in the Psychiatric Clinic of the Children's Medical Center; 2) the social worker's feelings and attitudes about these conferences; 3) team relationships in these conferences; and 4) implications of the family conference for the casework relationship. In order to describe the conferences and explore the social worker's feelings and attitudes, information was sought in six general areas: 1) how the conferences were used by the clinic and therapists; 2) social worker's general knowledge and experience with family conferences; 3) factors in team relationships; 4) the client's reactions to the family conference; 5) implications of the family conferences for the casework relationship, and 6) the social worker's evaluation of family conferences in general

The Washington State Tax Structure as Viewed by the Consumer

In evaluating the Washington tax structure from the view point of the consumer it is necessary to determine what is meant by the consumer. For purposes of this discussion, the term consumer describes a member of the general public performing in his role as a householder rather than in his role as an employee, employer, or self-employed individual. In his role as a consumer, the individual has a certain set of criteria with which he can render a judgment in respect to his satisfaction with a tax structure. Cast in another role, this same individual may well have another set of criteria with which to judge a tax structure

ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE BEEF CATTLE GENOTYPE AND MANAGEMENT/MARKETING SYSTEMS

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Texas Citrus Mealy Bug and Whiteflies.

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Texas Citrus Mites: Description and Biology.

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Texas Citrus Scales.

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Texas Citrus Scales.

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