Mapping information wrap up

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Notion of a site - what is a site?
 places are social tags, not geographical points

Integration of time

Disambiguation - Edinburgh, Midlotian? Edinburgh, Indiana?

User generated content 

How do you measure what research is being done with these tools?
reception of mapping technologies. Is easy with paper maps, is not with 
computational maps.

<b>Who are the stakeholders?

Accuracy versus precision - which is needed for particular tasks?

Modelling uncertainty
Qualitative? Quantitative? Semantic?

Scale 

Reception of outputs of mapping technologies

Involvement of other sectors
Museums, libraries and archives

Varied kinds of data
How can different kinds of geographic and non-geographic data be bought together

Other things to consider

  • Links between projects - links for seminar participants' projects
  • What further gaps need to be considered?
  • We should develop value chains, pathways of activity that add academic value to geo-resources.
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