http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/taxonomy/term/76/0 en http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/83 <p class="MsoNormal"> Endless buzz about the impending release of Geode by Firefox can not be ignored. Geode (looks a lot like GEOIDE) is currently a plug in for Firefox but will be included in the Firefox package soon. Geode will allow websites or web services to read your geographical position and this information could be integrated into specific services. “<b><span>Loki</span></b>” is a technology by <b><span>Skyhook</span></b>, which tries to identify the position of a computer using a wireless networks. Do you think of a way the <a class="glossary-term" href="/geoide/taxonomy/term/157"><acronym title="“Integrative, discoverable collection of geographically related web services and data that spans multiple jurisdictions and geographic regions” (Lake et al. 2007) "The Geoweb provides the means for interconnecting individual GIS databases. Desktop GIS can access and ingest data that’s found on the Geoweb as well as publish data to it. We can consume services that reside on the web, and can integrate different perspectives through the common network that is the web. The Geoweb framework provides the means of integrating our collective knowledge. While there are means of consuming and representing our data in globes and maps, the entirety of the Geoweb is not yet a GIS. The barrier at present is largely data access and discovery, particularly when looking at the popular geographic exploration systems. There’s no access to data at the database level to unlock metadata and the multiple attributes that have been collected about our world. There’s also a lack of analysis functionality." (Ball 2008)">geoweb</acronym></a> can benefit from plug ins such as Geode? </p> http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide/node/83#comments browsers cyberinfrastructure Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:24:07 +0000 ricker 83 at http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/geoide