because of prohibitive licensing costs for commercial
mapping tools.
These tools now are essentially free, and darned useful. Anyone
looking to build a quick list of locations only needs an api key
(free) and a nice xml file of data on the web, and you have an instant
map.
These are powerful
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:03:40 -0500, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just went to look up some stats from the most recent NTIA/Department
> of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was surprised to see
> that it's vanished:
>
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/ano
3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-7604935-7983908?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>
My feeling on url shortening services is that they're a great way to
*lose* information on the web. What guarantee do you have that the site in
question is going to be up for longer than, say, Amazon.
Those are my
o analyze and
explore that data in new ways? In addition to testing the Semantic Web
concept, if all goes well, I'll have a nicely organized map of the U.S.
government, structured using publicly available ontologies, available in a
single, reliable format (RDF), which anyone can incorporate into
. They should learn to be critical
thinkers about all the information that comes their way.
But hey, I'm just some guy on the internet. Decide for yourself based on
your own research. I'm confident in my opinions, because I have done my
own research.
Joe
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it be before our news reports come direct from local
sources with their own video production facilities, in real time, over the
Net? "
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