africamap造句

• A searchable gazetteer in AfricaMap includes over 2 million place names readable in a multiplicity of languages.
• From the outset, collaborations with other institutions interested in the potentials of the AfricaMap ( and WorldMap ) platform were sought.
• AfricaMap also includes data from the Ibrahim Index of African Governance that allows users to display and analyze results along with other data.
• In 2011, the AfricaMap website, housed at Harvard's Center for Geographic Research, was expanded into WorldMap along with an array of other map types.
• This Baobab Project led to the creation of AfricaMap in 2007, a website that seeks to bring together the best available cartographic data on the continent in an interactive GIS format.
• Lewis, who built the first peer-to-peer GIS system, established with Scott Melby the Geonomy Project from which AfricaMap's innovative technical features in part were based.
• In other cases, such as the ATLA Religion Database and the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, associated data were first geo-referenced and then uploaded directly to the AfricaMap website.
• The site was created following the success of the AfricaMap project here, that launched in beta version in November 2009 to bring together a range of cross-disciplinary materials on Africa, within an online mapping environment.
• AfricaMap has its origins in an earlier on-line mapping and media project called The Baobab Project ( Baobab : Roots of Creativity in African Material Culture ), founded by Blier at Harvard in 1993 with a grant from the Seaver Institute.
• As users with varied interests saw how the initial AfricaMap site handled and displayed data, they sought similar online mapping applications for their own research interests; out of this soon came Boston Research Map ( sociology ), VermontMap ( geology ), ParisMap ( history ) and ChinaMap ( history and political science ).
• WorldMap, in which AfricaMap is now located, has data that range from detailed street maps, to language and ethnicity groupings, historic and scholarly maps, environment, transportation systems, World Census and other demographic and economic data, political systems, institutions and infrastructure, urban planning, archaeology, cultural sites, crisis areas, and health and disease.
• AfricaMap demonstrated that there is a large amount of detailed mapping data on Africa that can be brought together in one place, that web technologies are mature enough to be able to handle a large volume of data ( hundreds of gigabytes in this case ), and that users can explore these data smoothly on top of high resolution imagery such as Google satellite view.
• WorldMap has its origins in AfricaMap, a website begun in 2007 by art historian Suzanne Blier with Harvard University Provost funds in Innovative Computing and was developed in 2008 and 2009 by GIS scientists Ben Lewis and Wendy Guan with input from Blier and Sinologist, Peter Bol, the Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis, to make a broad range of materials on Africa available within an online mapping environment.