Category Archives: Online Mapping

Planning your next vacation, with dollars and scents

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Saw this in The Globe & Mail this morning, mentioning one of my colleagues in the article. Way to go, Tracey! Below are some excerpts from the article.

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS: CYBERCARTOGRAPHY Planning your next vacation, with dollars and scents written by Science Reporter Anne MCilroy. February 27, 2008.

Carleton University cybercartographer has developed multimedia maps and atlases that use sound, music, photos and artwork to convey information about places.

Carleton University cybercartographer Fraser Taylor and his colleagues have already developed multimedia maps and atlases that use sound, music, photos and artwork to convey information about places such as Antarctica and the Arctic. Now he and doctoral student Tracey Lauriault are working on maps with scents.

Ms. Lauriault is developing a scented digital map for the Bytowne Museum in Ottawa. She is considering, for example, using the smell of sawdust to help convey the importance of lumberyards that once dominated a large working-class neighbourhood.

Newfoundland & Labrador Community Accounts

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Following along the lines of the previous post, I am highlighting the work of the The Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency, which created the Community Accounts site in collaboration with a number of partners. I love their tag line “Data -> Information -> Knowledge”. Check out their site for more info and to see data in action.

Community Accounts is an innovative information system providing users at all levels with a reliable source of community, regional, and provincial data. A public-wide, online data retrieval system for locating, sharing and exchanging information related to the province and its people, the Community Accounts provides users with a single comprehensive source of community, regional, and provincial data that would normally not be readily available, too costly to obtain, or too time consuming to retrieve and compile.

Nova Scotia Community Counts

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A good colleague and former SPNO member will be managing this excellent initiative come November. This is an excellent example of a data sharing initiative, similar to efforts already under way in Newfoundland.

A community embodies a wide range of characteristics. Nova Scotia Community Counts presents socio-economic and other data that illustrate the unique nature of each community. With easily accessible information, Community Counts also allows comparisons of community resources among regional, provincial, and national levels to present a more complete picture of Nova Scotian communities.

Nova Scotia Community Counts

Google’s new street-level view concerns Canada’s Privacy Commissioner

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A number of articles appearing today citing Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, raising concerns about Google’s Street View application. The privacy commissioner says many of the street-level images Google has on the Internet could break Canada’s privacy laws, although none are live yet in Canada. However, she goes on to say that if the Street View application were deployed in Canada, it might not comply with federal privacy legislation. Seems like the concept of private citizen is increasingly being eroded.

For more details, see articles:

The Globe & Mail

The National Post