Virtual globes: The web-wide world

By D. Butler. Nature, 2006

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Participatory GIS — a people's GIS? (2007, background): “This may call for a reworking of the ways in which GIS and PGIS have been deﬁ ned and conceptualized, particularly as interaction with digital spatial information increasingly becomes part of everyday experience for many non-expert users, notably through products such as Google Maps, Google Earth an”
Confronting the data-divide in a time of spatial turns and volunteered geographic information (2013, background): “Mashup, a term first used in music and more recently to describe the combination of data from different sources to create a new product or service (Butler 2006a; Batty et al. 2010), has been reinterpreted by Elwood et al. (2012) as a broader term to denote synthesis in the context of VGI and the…”
Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography (2007, background): “Whereas the creation of a ‘‘fly-by’’ was previously one of the more sophisticated GIS tasks, it is now possible for a child of ten to create one in ten minutes.”
Next-generation Digital Earth (2012, background): “Theeffect on the scienti ﬁ c community was immediate and palpable (2).”