New Ada Lovelace & The Neo-Geographers

"Geography amuses me really much.
- from the childhood periodical of Ada Lovelace

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which provides us amongst the perfect chance to recognize in addition to celebrate the contributions of women to the public of online interactive cartography.

From the really early on pioneering operate of Pamela Fox amongst the Google Maps API and Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial in addition to Waze) women induce got played an essential role inwards the evolution of what some telephone telephone neo-geography.


In the final calendar month Google has featured a issue of vivid maps developed yesteryear women. Last calendar week the official Geo Developers Blog picked upwardly on i of these maps when it featured Abby Putinski's map of her ain illustrations of San Francisco equally its Map of the Week.

One of my favorite maps of only final calendar week was Katy Decorah's Static Map Maker, a dandy sorcerer for creating static maps using the the Google Static Maps API. Recently Google has likewise featured Emily Bennet's Portsmouth History Picture Map in addition to her fantabulous series of tutorials on how to create a map amongst the Google Maps API.

Barbara J. Ryan is Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on basis Observations (GEO). GEO's Global basis Observation System of Systems is linking together existing in addition to planned observing systems around the public inwards lodge to render a unmarried access betoken for users seeking data, imagery in addition to analytical software packages relevant to all parts of the globe. Karla Baker is leading the Bartholowmew Archive's 10 twelvemonth projection to digitise in addition to convey on-line the printed maps of map engravers, printers in addition to publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.

Ada Lovelace Day is a rare chance to celebrate the achievements of women inwards science, technology, engineering scientific discipline in addition to maths. If you lot desire to induce got purpose inwards the celebrations you lot tin shipping away detect events taking house close you lot today on Finding Ada's listing of Worldwide Events. There is fifty-fifty a Google Map of websites in addition to blogs that induce got posted articles for Ada Lovelace Day.

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