Building the GeoWeb: Grappling with Change
GeoWorld
Issue Date: October - 2009, Posted On: 11/24/2009
In this edition of his ongoing column on Building the GeoWeb, Ron Lake talks about living in a period of constant, and accelerating, change. Ron proposes the use of “model-based thinking” as a tool for Grappling with Change and a way to better plan and forecast the needs of our urban environments.
V1 Magazine: Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb
Monday, 09 November 2009
Read Ron Lake’s column in V1 Magazine - Digital Cities, SDI and the GeoWeb discussing the implications of moving towards Digital Cities. Ron explores what a Digital City might be, the role of SDIs and the GeoWeb, and the impact of information technology on urban planning and environments.
GeoWorld: Key Connections: Geography, Politics and the Economy
Issue Date: April - 2009, Posted On: 5/1/2009
Read Ron Lake’s article discussing the interconnectedness of global resources, and whether and how geography might impact the economic and political success of nation states.
The full article is available in GeoWorld’s Building the GeoWeb column for April 2009.
V1 Magazine: GeoWeb - Shaping Geographic Awareness
Wednesday, 04 February 2009
Ron Lake's column in V1 Magazine discusses Google Ocean and the visualization framework that it provides. At the same time, Mr. Lake points out the need to take the next step for building out the GeoWeb for oceans and providing a middle tier data integration infrastructure.
Read the full column from V1 Magazine [...]
GeoWorld: Can the GeoWeb Rescue the Economy?
Issue Date: January - 2009, Posted On: 2/1/2009
According to Ron Lake, many people believe we now stand on the edge of an economic precipice, a state unknown in the lives of most of us—and perhaps in the history of the modern world. What's most telling is the inability of anyone to say what happens next.
Read [...]
A View from Over There - India and NSDI
By Joe Francica , Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher, Directions Magazine
February 19, 2009
An article in the February 2009 edition of Directions Magazine reported on the Map World Forum, held in Hyderabad, India. Ron Lake, president of Galdos Systems, was one of the speakers at the event, and is quoted in the article.
The full article is available [...]
Backbone Magazine: Map your world - the GeoWeb
17 November 2008
The cover story of the November/December 2008 issue of Backbone magazine featured an article by Ian Harvey: "The Geoweb is remaking mapping, the Web and perhaps your own corporate Web site" based on an interview with Ron Lake.
The full article is available on Backbone's website.
GeoWorld: What’s an SDI? Can It Support Emergency Management?
Issue Date: October - 2008, Posted On: 11/1/2008
If one looks at most SDIs today, notes Ron Lake, they heavily emphasize a "librarian view" of the software-infrastructure element (i.e., the primary points of focus are metadata collection and discovery). As a result, they’re inappropriate to support many of the use cases for which such an infrastructure [...]
GeoWorld: Exploring Schema Constructs in KML
Issue Date: August — 2008, Posted On: 9/1/2008
Building the GeoWeb by Ron Lake
This is Part II in a series of “Building the GeoWeb” columns comparing the schema constructs found in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Geography Markup Language (GML). In the first column (see “Exploring Schema Constructs in KML,” <I>GeoWorld<I>, May 2008, page 20), I [...]
Geoplace.com: GeoWeb 2008 Conference: Attend. Network. Learn.
Issue Date: July - 2008, Posted On: 6/30/2008
GeoWeb 2008 Conference: Attend. Network. Learn.
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By Ron Lake
The GeoWeb is concerned with the standards and technology that enable the local and global sharing of information about the world. It’s about the impact of geographic information on the Web as well as the effect of the Web [...]