December 2006
Beginner
54 pages
1h 30m
English
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Where To Next?
Welcome to neogeography. I hope your introduction was a good one. By now, your brain is probably filled with ideas on all the cool projects you can start. The point of neogeography is to have fun with mapping, and possibly do something useful in the meantime. The tools and community really strive to make the tools easy and fun to use.
There are a lot of great resources out there for more information. The code and software examples from this book are available online at http://mapsomething.com. This includes a complete listing of the links to sites and resources included in this Short Cut for easy bookmarking. Also, feel free to contact me directly at andrew@highearthorbit.com.
Community
Neogeography is more than just the data and applications that let you do fun things. It is also a large community of users and developers that are continuously coming up with new ideas, trying to promote new standards and tools, and havinge a great time mapping.
You are encouraged to get involved in any of the various geo groups. Here are a couple of starting points that you may find helpful:
- OSGeo (http://osgeo.org)
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation fosters and supports geospatial technologies and data. Users and developers are encouraged to join and participate.
- Open Geospatial Consortium (http://opengeospatial.org
The OGC is an organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location-based services. Membership is limited.
- Geowanking Mailing list (http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking ...