Re: Foe web site, and general purpose image maps, electronic globe

["John C. Champagne" <jchampag@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Mitch Rice wrote:
 
> Michael, >

....this feature, a clickable image map....[with info about polluters 
embedded...]

The idea of associating files containing information about particular
places with an image map, or using a map, geography, to organize and
approach information seems such a versatile idea that we might want to
offer the image maps, or the coordinate grids, that we would tag
information to as a public, community service, available for one and all
to tag and examine as interest and curiosity dictate. 

Perhaps there are already image maps available which can be tagged by 
local, regional, national, global organizations with information about 
polluters?

Below is a copy of a letter to ednet list about children writing on the 
electronic globe as part of their learning geography.  

>From jchampag@lonestar.jpl.utsa.eduMon Feb 12 23:16:26 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 08:54:58 -0600 (CST)
From: "John C. Champagne" <jchampag@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
To: ednet@lists.umass.edu
Cc: Local forum on educational possibilities of the Net
     <ednet@noc1.oit.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: GEOGRAPHY AND TECHNOLOGY

Not a canned software source, but an idea:  Encourage young students to 
draw pictures (maps) of their home and neighborhood, and identify the 
location using longitude and latitude (from USGS topographical maps).  

The best artists in the various age levels could be asked to draw up maps
of their city and region.  If these maps were created in a standard format
all across the continent and world, and were made available on public
servers, and if we had tools to integrate the various documents, we would
see the emergence of an electronic globe created by school children,
which can be examined at a variety of scales, and even in a variety of
styles.  We could view this electronic globe through filters that only
showed the drawings of eight-year-olds, or high-school students, or
whatever. 

John Champagne

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