"Geography amuses me really much."
- from the childhood periodical of Ada Lovelace
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which provides us alongside the perfect chance to recognize as well as celebrate the contributions of women to the public of online interactive cartography.
From the really early on pioneering operate of Pamela Fox alongside the Google Maps API and Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial as well as Waze) women stimulate got played an essential purpose inward the evolution of what some telephone weep upwards neo-geography.
In the terminal calendar month Google has featured a issue of bright maps developed yesteryear 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 merely terminal calendar week was Katy Decorah's Static Map Maker, a peachy sorcerer for creating static maps using the the Google Static Maps API. Recently Google has too featured Emily Bennet's Portsmouth History Picture Map as well as her fantabulous 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 public Observations (GEO). GEO's Global public Observation System of Systems is linking together existing as well as planned observing systems around the public inward companionship to supply a unmarried access signal for users seeking data, imagery as well as analytical software packages relevant to all parts of the globe. Karla Baker is leading the Bartholowmew Archive's 10 yr projection to digitise as well as choose on-line the printed maps of map engravers, printers as well as publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.
Ada Lovelace Day is a rare chance to celebrate the achievements of women inward science, technology, engineering scientific discipline as well as maths. If y'all desire to accept business office inward the celebrations y'all tin shipping away detect events taking house close y'all today on Finding Ada's listing of Worldwide Events. There is fifty-fifty a Google Map of websites as well as blogs that stimulate got posted articles for Ada Lovelace Day.
