"Geography amuses me really much."
- from the childhood magazine of Ada Lovelace
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which provides us alongside 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 function of Pamela Fox alongside the Google Maps API and Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial in addition to Waze) women stimulate got played an essential role inwards the evolution of what some telephone phone neo-geography.
In the concluding calendar month Google has featured a issue of vivid maps developed past times women. Last calendar week the official Geo Developers Blog picked upwards on 1 of these maps when it featured Abby Putinski's map of her ain illustrations of San Francisco every bit its Map of the Week.
One of my favorite maps of simply concluding calendar week was Katy Decorah's Static Map Maker, a neat 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 splendid series of tutorials on how to create a map alongside the Google Maps API.
Barbara J. Ryan is Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on globe Observations (GEO). GEO's Global globe Observation System of Systems is linking together existing in addition to planned observing systems around the public inwards social club to furnish 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, applied scientific discipline in addition to maths. If y'all desire to stimulate got utilization inwards the celebrations y'all tin uncovering events taking house close y'all today on Finding Ada's listing of Worldwide Events. There is fifty-fifty a Google Map of websites in addition to blogs that stimulate got posted articles for Ada Lovelace Day.
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