PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & google

A mapping party is an event in which a group of people get together to map their world. It is often focuses on a specific area such as a town or city and avid cartographers use Google Map Maker to add and edit roads, streams, schools, and more. Following a review for accuracy, new additions and edits are incorporated in Google Maps for millions of other people around the world to see and use.

designed to take citizen mapping to rural areas with the help of “ICT Buses”.

Not any longer! Google Maps now has a short URL service. If you select the 'Short URL' option in Google Labs (the green bottle at the top of the map if you are logged into a Google account) you can now get short URL's for location links.

Moins d’une semaine après son lancement, les autorités suisses ont réclamé le retrait immédiat du service et menacent de porter plainte. Elles jugent insuffisant le "floutage" des personnes et des lieux privés.

The Google Maps Data API allows client applications to view, store and update map data in the form of Google Data API feeds using a data model of features (placemarks, lines and shapes) and maps (collections of features).

1. Geographic Longitude/Latitude coordinatesystem based on the standard WGS84 datum. 2. Mercator projection using a datum based on WGS84, BUT modified to be spheric.