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Google has launched a Geo Education site for educators who are hoping to include Google Earth, Maps, Sky or SketchUp as part of lesson plans. There are some great classroom ideas on how to use these products to help your students understand geography, geology, history and more.
If you are new to these products, check out the getting started guides. You can also connect with other educators in the Google for Educators discussion group.
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Tags: GIS and GEO technology·google·Teacher
No Street Names Map (OSM)
This is a good map highlighting area that need attribution for streetnames in the
OpenStreetMap data.
“Dave Stubbs built it as we have many features traced from aerial imagery”
Just shows the task ahead- capturing the data is one huge task, updating the attribute (points, lines, polygons) is another huge task.
Slowly but surely this is getting updated, then the task of maintaining is another task in itself.
Want to help out?
New beginners guide.
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Tags: Google Maps Street View·OpenStreetMap·Yahoo
