This is a new section to collate our resources related to place, geography, both physical and digital (i.e. cyber-mapping, etc...)

It will also focus on developments related to Localization or Relocalization.

Steve Bosserman sees Localization occuring in four key domains:

1) affordable / green construction, 2) 100-mile agricultural production, 3) renewable / distributed energy generation 4) community governance / capacity building.

We have only ported the 6 first columns of our Encyclopedia, from A to G at present.

Citations

Towards the hyperlocal

"The decisive paradigm from the age of mass production was culminating in the claim "think global - act local" - the view of international brands and enterprises, conquering markets worldwide and batteling with salesforces for the dominance in each region on a global scale.

The emerging paradigm from the coming age of connectivity shows a totally opposite point of view, expressed by individuals with the claim "think global-act hyperlocal"."

- Reinhard Knobelspies [1]

Resources

Key Articles

1. Collapsing Geography: on Second Life, Innovation, and the Future of National Power. By Cory Ondrejka.
2. Web mapping vs. GIS. Andrew Turner.

Key Blogs

1. Making Maps
2. Straight To The Point: Location based technology, local content services, and new developments in local media and journalism, including lots of geo and mapping info.
3. The Metacarta blog
4. The Y!Geo blog for Yahoo mapping developments
5. The Google Earth blog

Key Books

1. Introduction to Neogeography. Andrew Turner.
2. Making Maps. John Krygier and Denis Wood.

Key Conferences

1. State of the Map: annual conferences for the Open Street Map communities
2. Where 2.0

Key projects

1. Open Street Map

Key Resources

1. Open Source GIS: an attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects
2. Aether reviews the geography of media