Conclusions on Geolocation

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Conclusions Sebastian Rahtz and Janet McKnight July 2009

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Conclusions

Sebastian Rahtz and Janet McKnight

July 2009

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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.

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Time and politics

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

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Joining up the dots

Integration with local data sources depends on knowledge ofinstitutional data identifiers

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Thank you

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