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OpenStreetMaps - potential and challenges in community-sourced mapping

Tue, 2012-10-23 18:56 — ryanfbaker
Recently, Apple made news by disowning Google Maps in its hand-held devices, in deference to its own nascent (and buggy) mapping system. If trends continue, however, Google and Apple’s proprietary systems may both be left behind by OpenStreetMaps, an alternative crowd-sourced online world map, whose contributing membership has recently swelled to over 800,000.

The Current Environmental Classification Systems for Computers Does Not Work

Tue, 2012-10-16 20:29 — Morgan Wallace

Classification of computers by their environmental impact and upgradability is a good thing. Classification systems designed to encourage manufacturers to make environmentally preferable products do exist, however, the most popular environmental rating registry - Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry (EPEAT) - is in the pocket of the companies that it purports to objectively classify. 

Scientific Meta-Analysis as Organzing System

Tue, 2012-10-16 15:14 — lj

The controversial recent Stanford study finding that organically grown food is no more nutritious than conventionally grown food is an interesting example of resource description and classification and how the resulting interactions in an organizing system come together to form conclusions. The study was a meta-analysis of previously published studies of conventional and organic food.

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