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Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""Create your School Web Site""""Calendars for All""; ""Be Creative""; ""Part 2: Google Apps in the Classroom""; ""Using Google Earth in the Classroom""; ""The Basics of Using Google Earth""; ""Using Google Earth to Teach a Lesson on the Battle of Gettysburg""; ""Showing the Great Wall of China Using Google Earth""; ""Setting Up a Tour in Google Earth""; ""Using Google Earth to Teach a Current Events Lesson""; ""Using Picasa""; ""Access to Docs & Spreadsheets""; ""Using Docs & Spreadsheets for Student Assignments""; ""Basic Collaboration""; ""The Nuts and Bolts of Collaboration""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 11 Personalizing Google DesktopGoogle Desktop Features; Installing and Using Google Desktop; Managing Panels; Preferences for Google Desktop; Summary; Chapter 12 Exploring Google Maps; Navigating the Google Maps Interface; Searching for Local Businesses; Getting Driving Directions; Put Your Business on the Map; Going Further; Summary; Chapter 13 Exploring the World with Google Earth; Obtaining the Google Earth Software; Welcome to the Earth; Navigating Google Earth; Moving Around the Earth; Changing Views; Customizing Google Earth; Useful Tools; Google Earth Community; Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to geospatial analytics -- Essential facilities for spatial analysis -- QGIS: exploring PyQGIS and native algorithms for spatial analytics -- Geospatial analytics in the cloud: Google Earth Engine and other tools -- OpenStreetMap: accessing geospatial data with OSMnx -- The ArcGIS Python API -- GeoPandas and spatial statistics -- Data cleaning -- Exploring the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) -- Using Python to measure climate data…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Mathematical Images of Planet Earth 23 Google Earth 45 Mediating Gaia 61 Why Ecological Awareness is Loopy 91 »Again, the Earth (which ever I held in mine eye) did as it were mask it selfe with a kind of brightness like another Moone.« 113 »earth's slow turning into the dark« 139 A Whole Earth Monument 155 Contributors 171…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intelligence challenges in the digital age : Cloaks, daggers, and tweets -- The education crisis : How fictional spies are shaping public opinion and intelligence policy -- American intelligence history at a glance-from fake bakeries to armed drones -- Intelligence basics : Knowns and unknowns -- Why analysis is so hard : The seven deadly biases -- Counterintelligence : To catch a spy -- Covert action - "a hard business of agonizing choices" -- Congressional oversight : Eyes on spies -- Intelligence isn't just for governments anymore : Nuclear sleuthing in a Google earth world -- Decoding cyber threats…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meet the Google docs family -- The Google docs family : Google documents -- The Google docs family : Google spreadsheets -- The Google docs family : Google presentations -- Become a Gmail power user -- Customize your Google home page -- Manage your events with Google calendar -- Keep up on news with Google reader -- Manage your photos and videos with Picasa and Youtube -- Create your own home page, blog, or group -- Dive into Google maps, Google earth, and Sketchup 3D -- Google analytics and beyond : market your site, track visitors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…AD 150 -- Exchange : Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith : Hereford Mappamundi, c. 1300 -- Empire : Kangnido world map, 1402 -- Discovery : Martin Waldseemüller, world map, 1507 -- Globalism : Diogo Ribeiro, world map, 1529 -- Toleration : Gerard Mercator, world map, 1569 -- Money : Juan Blaeu, Atlas maior, 1662 -- Nation : the Cassini family, map of France, 1793 -- Geopolitics : Halford Mackinder, 'The geographical pivot of history', 1904 -- Equality : the Peters project, 1973 -- Information : Google earth, 2012 -- Conclusion : the eye of history?…”

“…Provides information on the features of Google, including such topics as Gmail, AdSense, AdWords, the Google Desktop, Google Earth, Blogger, and Picasa…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cloud computing and remote sensing -- section 11. Google earth for remote sensing -- section 12. Accuracies, errors, and uncertainties of remote sensing-derived products -- section 13. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring Your Creation on FootTaking the Scenic Route; Mastering the Sectional Approach; Part IV Sharing What You've Made; Chapter 11 Working with Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse; Getting the Big (3D) Picture; Taking the Ten-Minute Tour of Google Earth; Building Models for Google Earth; Becoming a SketchUp All-Star with the 3D Warehouse; Chapter 12 Printing Your Work; Printing from a Windows Computer; Printing from a Mac; Printing to a Particular Scale; Chapter 13 Exporting Images and Animations; Exporting 2D Images of Your Model; Making Movies with Animation Export…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri -- Urban life / Diana Periton -- Heads: Philip-Lorca di Corcia and the paradox of urban portraiture / Hugh Campbell -- A space for the imagination: depicting women readers in the nineteenth-century city / Kathryn Brown -- "So the flâneur goes for a walk in his room": interior, arcade, cinema, metropolis / Charles Rice -- Exhibitionism: John Soane's "model house" / Helene Furján -- Private house, public house: Victor Horta's ubiquitous domesticity / Amy Catania Kulper -- Drawing and dispute: the strategies of the Berlin block / Katharina Borsi -- "The necessity of the plan": visions of individuality and collective intimacies / Marina Lathouri -- City is house and house is city: Aldo van Eyck, Piet Blom, and the architecture of homecoming / Karin Jaschke -- Urban play: intimate space and postwar subjectivity / Roy Kozlovsky -- Pervasive intimacy: the Unité d'habitation and Golden Lane as instruments of postwar domesticity / Christopher Hight -- Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy / Vittoria Di Palma…”
Sumario

“…Learn what existing and emerging standards such as GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats mean; how to add dynamic maps and locations to your web site; how to pinpoint the locations of your online visitors; how to create genealogical maps and Google Earth animations of your family's ancestry; or how to geotag and share your travel photographs…”

“…Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth. Why do we put north at the top of maps? …”

“…The authors examine the media archaeology of Google Earth and the cultural–historical meaning of map projections, and explore recent events―the “Arab Spring” and the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster―through social media mapping that incorporates data visualizations, photographic documents, and Twitter streams. …”

“…Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. …”