Remember our SynerGIS meeting is today, Wednesday, June 13 at 12:00.
This will be a really interesting meeting on developing customized
interactive maps on your own web pages using Google Maps’ API ( Not
“using Google Maps”–you’ve got to figure that out on your own!)
The meeting will be held in room 703 Olin Library. Coffee, drinks
and
snack courtesy of Cornell University Library, but feel free to bring
your lunch.
Agenda:
12:00–12:15 Business and Networking
12:15-12:30 Susan Hoskins will help put Google Maps in perspective,
reporting on her trip to ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing). The kick-off speakers there were Michael Jones,
Chief Technologist at Google Earth, Maps and Local Search, and John
Curlander, General Manager, Microsoft Boulder.
These online mapping services are not a toy–they’re an important
element of the new interactive Web and offer a way to provide
interactive maps simply and easily–and for free. And these maps are
presented in a well-known, easily navigable interface.
Check these out:
http://www.tastypop sicle.com/ maps/cta. asp ;
http://www.housingm aps.com/
12:15–1:00 Jan Wink from CISER will demonstrate his work there:
Mapping Group Quarters in preparation of Census 2010
Google Maps is used to publish the geographic information contained
in our Group Quarters database. The goal of publicizing this
information and the GIS application is to generate feedback and
corrections to this database. The presentation will give some
background on the Group Quarters data we collect, but mainly focus
on
a demonstration of the Google Maps application.
1:00-1:15 Bob Kibbee will demonstrate and attempt to explain an
experimental interface to the Cornell Map Collection using Google
Maps.
If any one else has attempted a Google Map application and would
like to share it with the group, please plan to do so.
Thanks, hope to see you in 703