For fun and profit: the limits and possibilities of Google-Maps-based geoweb applications

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1029-1046

  Dalton, Craig M ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

application; big data; cartography; geoweb; Google Maps; new media; software studies; subject formation; vision; volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; GIS; INTERNET; MAP; SOFTWARE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84940025507     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15592302     Document Type: Article

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