Christopher Schmidt wrote: > http://www.walkscore.com/rankings/Boston is an analysis performed solely > with Google Local search results and PostGIS -- something which would > have been impossible before the creation of 'neogeography'. I'm not sure, if I got your point here right. But you are talking about the technology or tools (e.g. PostGIS or Google Local Search) used and not the methods used. The method is described here: http://www.walkscore.com/how-it-works.shtml. And it is exactly that bit of brain investment to formulate this walk score, what makes the value of the information delivered by this mapping application.
> To me, this is what neogeography is about: Not, specifically, making the > masses GIS analysts who build the data, but having a larger set of > people using somewhat newer tools to expand the usage of GIS-style > analyses to the rest of teh world who can use them without getting a > college degree in the topic. > > This above mentioned example is to me a valuable GIS anlysis. Nobody says that only people with a university degree in geography or related sciences can do that. And the creator did in my eyes nothing else than just geography by putting this walk score algorithm together. regards, Christian _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
