Recommended reading

Such is the popularity of Web-based GIS that there is an abundance of material that you can read up on. This list is not exhaustive; please e-mail any other websites and sources that you come across.

Links

• Official Google Maps documentation
• W3Schools HTML and CSS Tutorials
• Code Academy

Readings

• Eloquent Javascript
• Geoservices Create a Framework for Collaboration, Understanding, and Open Government: GIS Professionals Lead the GeoWeb Revolution
• Michael Batty, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, and Andrew Crooks (2010) Map mashups, Web 2.0 and the GIS revolution Annals of GIS Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010, 1 – 13
• The Geospatial Web and Revolution: a Synopsis
• A Reintroduction to JavaScript

Academic articles

So, in academic terms, what do we use Web-GIS for? Here are a few articles, but go and search on Web of Science or GoogleScholar to see the types of applications around and the pro’s and con’s.

You can find the pdf's of the articles on the VLE or linked below.

• Berry et al. (2011) Web-based GIS Approaches to Enhance Public Participation in Wind Farm Planning, Trans GIS 15(2): 147 - 172
• Connors et al. (2011) Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102:6, 1267 - 1289.
• Driedger et al. (2011) If you build it, they still may not come: outcomes and process of implementing a community-based integrated knowledge translation mapping innovation Implementation Science, 5:47
• Goodchild and Glennon (2010) Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier International Journal of Digital Earth 3/3: 231-241.
• Haklay et al. (2008) Web Mapping 2.0: The Neogeography of the GeoWeb Geography Compass 2/6, 2011-2039.
• Brent Hall et al. (2010) Community-based production of geographic information using open source software and Web 2.0 International Journal of Geographical Information Science 24:5, 761-781
• Kulawiak et al. (2010) Web-Based GIS as a Tool for Supporting Marine Research Marine Geodesy 33/2-3, 135-153
• Simao et al. (2009) Web-based GIS for collaborative planning and public participation: An application to the strategic planning of wind farm sites Journal of Environmental Management 90: 2027-2040