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Nature's own Declan Butler reports on a great collection of articles that he helped to put together:

This week's issue contains several pieces on virtual globes, and all are on free access. I've written a three-page feature — Virtual globes: The web-wide world — on the various ways scientists are beginning to use virtual globes, such as Google Earth and Nasa's World Wind.

I discuss the feature in an accompanying podcast.

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There is also a two-page Commentary — “Mapping disaster zones” — on the use of Google Earth in humanitarian disasters.

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Nature itself has its lead editorial — Think Global

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I also collected an extensive collection of bookmarks to various great resources on GIS, science, and virtual globes during the research; I will upload all of these to my GIS tag on Connotea

Read more at Declan's blog.

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Earlier this week I went to the Carson Summit, a single day conference on how to make a good web application.

I made notes with Simon Willison, Suw Charman also made some great notes which she posted on the conference wiki page.

• Simon's communal notes


• Suw's notes on the wiki

If you have got time for only one of them, then read Tom Coates' presentation, read Simon's notes and Suw's notes.

The speakers slides will be up later in the month, along with podcasts for all the presentations on the Carson site.

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