New Citizen Cartography

The launch of OpenStreetMap inwards 2004 paved the agency for crowd-sourced map making. Google itself launched its ain Map Maker tool inwards 2008 to allow users to add together details as well as brand amendments to Google Maps. Because of licensing issues amongst the some of Google Maps' information providers all the same Map Maker is non available inwards every dry soil (it was expanded to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland today).


Old Maps Online

An interesting evolution inwards the concluding twosome of years inwards cartography has been the increment of crowd-sourcing for georeferencing as well as annotating digitised, high-resolution historic maps. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland the British Library has led the agency amongst its historical maps Georeferencing Project. You tin move sentiment all the crowd-sourced georeferenced maps already completed yesteryear the British Library on the Old Maps Online website.


MapHub

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 like projection has simply been launched yesteryear Cornell Information Science amongst back upwards from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as the University of Vienna. MapHub is an online application for exploring as well as annotating digitized, high-resolution historic maps. Using MapHub users are able to annotate historical maps as well as georeference locations on the historical maps using Google Maps as well as Google Earth.

The projection has started amongst to a greater extent than or less 6000 populace domain maps taken from the Library of Congress Historic Map division.

Also See

Galaxy Zoo - a citizen scientific discipline projection for classifying galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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