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August 11, 2008
Geocultura, the Spanish cultural map
At the end of last July the Ministry of Culture presented Geocultura, a web application based on Google Maps in which are located geographically major cultural institutions in the country, including some 5,000 public libraries, 453 archives, museums and 1420 the 40 property declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco, as well as other cultural organizations. To these are added in successive stages new locations.
The availability of free tools geolocation has opened a new front in the web of possibilities: the launch of simple, free and reusable Google Maps (its API is undoubtedly one of the most reinterpretation) in late 2005 and other similar services has popularized the description of objects in terms of latitude and longitude, which is what is basically the geolocation; sírvannos as examples Flickr, YouTube or Panoramio, which allow geographically locate your photos and videos. Increasingly found at any site for a map showing the location of places, a trend which has joined the Ministry with this initiative.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: August 11, 2008
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