see especially the Gowanus Canal (!!!!): http://g.co/maps/ds8bs - and check out the credit line!
These were all public domain maps, not CC-BY, which many Public Lab contributors' maps are. But it's still great to see uptake by big players. One wonders if they'd accept CC-BY maps. Maybe we can put a big banner with "CC-BY" on it in each map... :-) Also i have to mention, this being the OSM community -- these are raster maps -- aerial images, not vector data. i.e. not a competitor! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stewart Long <stew...@publiclaboratory.org> Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM Subject: [PLOTS] Google connects with Public Laboratory Map Archive To: publiclaborat...@googlegroups.com, grassrootsmapp...@googlegroups.com We have some exciting news to share – Google Earth is now using 45 of the maps the Public Laboratory community produced! The Public Laboratory Archive includes many public domain-released maps - so that they can be redistributed without "friction". Such is the case with today's announcement -- Google is now publishing finished maps from our archive that have the public domain designation. We are excited that Google has connected with our open data archive, and hope that other organizations will choose to do the same. The Google Geo "Lat Long Blog" has a nice post on the new maps in Google. We hope to continue distributing our maps to Google several times a year. This first wave of maps includes 45 total maps and 9 that are showing up in Google Maps as well as Google Earth. Google Lat Long Blog: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/balloon-and-kite-imagery-in-google.html KML feed. Download this feed and see the maps in Google Earth (they're already in there, this is just a list of places/times): *http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/google/PublicLaboratoryImagery_nl.kml* We’re preparing a news release now, which we'll hopefully send out later today, but in the meantime, it would be great if people could help spread the word about this exciting initiative. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks once again to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation -- whose generous Knight News Challenge grant helped make this possible. Thanks, Stewart -- Stewart Long director of geography and data publiclaboratory.org +1-760-888-5287 -- Post to this group at publiclaborat...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, email publiclaboratory+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Options at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/publiclaboratory?hl=en
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