Ada Lovelace & The Neo-Geographers

"Geography amuses me actually much." 

- from the childhood periodical of Ada Lovelace

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which provides us with the perfect jeopardy to recognize inward add-on to celebrate the contributions of women to the world of online interactive cartography.

From the actually early pioneering live on of Pamela Fox with the Google Maps API and Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial inward add-on to Waze) women get got played an essential role inwards the development of what some outcry upwards telephone neo-geography.


In the terminal month Google has featured a number of bright maps developed past times women. Last calendar calendar week the official Geo Developers Blog picked upwardly on i of these maps when it featured Abby Putinski's map of her receive illustrations of San Francisco every bit its Map of the Week.

One of my favorite maps of alone terminal calendar calendar week was Katy Decorah's Static Map Maker, a slap-up wizard for creating static maps using the the Google Static Maps API. Recently Google has too featured Emily Bennet's Portsmouth History Picture Map inward add-on to her first-class series of tutorials on how to create a map with the Google Maps API.

Barbara J. Ryan is Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on soil Observations (GEO). GEO's Global soil Observation System of Systems is linking together existing inward add-on to planned observing systems around the world inwards monastic enjoin to homecoming a single access dot for users seeking data, imagery inward add-on to analytical software packages relevant to all parts of the globe. Karla Baker is leading the Bartholowmew Archive's ten solar year projection to digitise inward add-on to choose on-line the printed maps of map engravers, printers inward add-on to publishers, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.

Ada Lovelace Day is a rare jeopardy to celebrate the achievements of women inwards science, technology, engineering scientific champaign of report inward add-on to maths. If yous lot wish to get got usage inwards the celebrations yous lot tin dismiss transportation away break events taking household unopen yous lot today on Finding Ada's listing of Worldwide Events. There is fifty-fifty a Google Map of websites inward add-on to blogs that get got posted articles for Ada Lovelace Day.
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