Comments on: Rome for Rome. Rome for OpenStreetMap. http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273 Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Brain Off » How do *we* determine the names for things? :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273/comment-page-1#comment-59590 Brain Off » How do *we* determine the names for things? :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:14:10 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273#comment-59590 [...] Preceeding this difference, I think I can detect something of the frustration I’ve experienced in attempting to free data from the United Nations as Google has. “We considered attempting to extricate Google entirely from the problem of deciding placenames by simply deferring to the determinations of an existing, authoritative, multilateral or multistakeholder institution.” But the UN keeps a strict policy that their maps are not official political representations, and takes no authoritative stance on boundaries or names. Frustrating, since essentially the UN is hamstrung by the traditional, single reality view of cartography. [...] [...] Preceeding this difference, I think I can detect something of the frustration I’ve experienced in attempting to free data from the United Nations as Google has. “We considered attempting to extricate Google entirely from the problem of deciding placenames by simply deferring to the determinations of an existing, authoritative, multilateral or multistakeholder institution.” But the UN keeps a strict policy that their maps are not official political representations, and takes no authoritative stance on boundaries or names. Frustrating, since essentially the UN is hamstrung by the traditional, single reality view of cartography. [...]

]]> By: Slashgeo http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273/comment-page-1#comment-45440 Slashgeo Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:00:39 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273#comment-45440 <strong>The United Nations: GeoNetwork, OpenStreetMap and More...</strong> The Brain Off blog offers a nice entry on discussing links between a United Nations's FAO workshop, the OSGeo's GeoNetwork open source software and OpenStreetMap. Overall, an informative read. From the entry: "And in its way, an OSGeo conference at ... The United Nations: GeoNetwork, OpenStreetMap and More…

The Brain Off blog offers a nice entry on discussing links between a United Nations’s FAO workshop, the OSGeo’s GeoNetwork open source software and OpenStreetMap. Overall, an informative read. From the entry: “And in its way, an OSGeo conference at …

]]> By: Laurence Penney http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273/comment-page-1#comment-43590 Laurence Penney Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:36:11 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273#comment-43590 Makes me want to return soon! I thought I'd mention a couple of other things mappers should take note of when in Rome: * The <a href="http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/" rel="nofollow">Severan Marble Plan</a>, a huge map of Rome at the scale of 1:240, inscribed AD 203-211. About 10% survives, which has been digitially reconstituted by a team from Stanford. I don't think any is on public view. * The 1:250 scale model of Rome by Italo Gismondi, on public view at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Roman_Civilization" rel="nofollow">Museum of Roman Civilization</a> Makes me want to return soon! I thought I’d mention a couple of other things mappers should take note of when in Rome:

* The Severan Marble Plan, a huge map of Rome at the scale of 1:240, inscribed AD 203-211. About 10% survives, which has been digitially reconstituted by a team from Stanford. I don’t think any is on public view.

* The 1:250 scale model of Rome by Italo Gismondi, on public view at the Museum of Roman Civilization

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