ABSTRACT

The past two decades witnessed the flourishing of GeoWeb, a web infused with geospatial services and applications, which has given rise to a trend that non-experts are increasingly involved in creating digital maps, collecting spatial data, and developing mapping mashups or applications, known as neogeography. In light of that, the general public and researchers/students in higher education institutions are becoming increasingly interested in these technologies. However, a gap exists between the GIS educational programs offered by public/academic libraries in Canada and the fast developing web mapping technologies as well as the shifting needs of users. This article describes two web mapping workshop initiatives at a public library and an academic library, arguing web mapping technologies provides new opportunities to adapt ACRL Information Literacy to GIS education, and advocating academic and public libraries’ involvement in web mapping instruction in the age of neogeography.

摘要

过去 20 年见证了 GeoWeb 的蓬勃发展，这是一个融合了地理空间服务和应用程序的网络，它引发了一种趋势，即非专家越来越多地参与创建数字地图、收集空间数据以及开发地图混搭或应用程序，众所周知作为新地理学。有鉴于此，大众和高等教育机构的研究人员/学生对这些技术越来越感兴趣。然而，加拿大公共/学术图书馆提供的 GIS 教育计划与快速发展的网络地图技术以及用户不断变化的需求之间存在差距。本文描述了公共图书馆和学术图书馆的两个网络地图研讨会计划，