Here are some notes from this morning’s session at the NITLE Summit conference in San Francisco. The topic is web based mapping and geographic tools.

News flash from this session: Google Earth is about to put out infra-red images of the US.

What is “Webmapping” ? The progression from static maps to animated, real time, interactive, collaborative maps and the virtual globe.

• Biomapping.net maps sensors on people which track physiological response to their emotional state as they move through a geographical space
• Gapminder allows creation and sharing of complex geo-data vizualizations
• MapFrappe let’s you draw on Google Maps
• GMDir is a directory to many such Google Maps based mashups

Thanks for info to Vidya Ananthanaryanan of Trinity University