Beyond Google Maps by Andrew Turner
7 June 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments
Andrew Turner's "Beyond Google Maps" presentation at the 2008 Future of Web Apps Expo in London.
Source: Future of Web Apps Expo
This is an impressive presentation! More than just Google Maps (Andrew didn't choose the title), it should be called "Evolved Maps, deconstructed."
Andrew begins with a brief history of mapping, including African story mapping and Polynesian navigation maps. Along the way he touches on the intersection of geography and meaning (psychogeography), slippy maps & spinny globes. Turner's Introduction to Neogeography (O'Reilly) is worth checking out if you haven't already.
So where next? How to do real rich geographic applications?
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
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