Conclusions

Sebastian Rahtz and Janet McKnight

July 2009

Physical mapping

Google and Microsoft and all the mapping companies aregetting better all the time, but we think physical locationcollection will be needed for a few years yet.

Time and politics

The time and political dimensions of geolocation must alwaysrely on specialist local knowledge

Joining up the dots

Integration with local data sources depends on knowledge ofinstitutional data identifiers

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