Divide yourselves into groups of three or four at one of the computers in the Collaboratory.
The goal is to see how similar information is presented differently with two elements.
Each person should contribute two addresses to the pool. Try to have a selection of local communities and exotic places (or maybe just quasi-exotic...).
Use two of the sites below, use each one to look up your addresses, and respond to the questions (paper format makes it easier to interact with the web sites onscreen)
For each site, what kind of information is it showing you?
For each address, did it get the right place?
(Freeway status maps, dynamic urban information)
Look at each of the highway congestion services below:
[Note that the Maxwell group that did the Southern California sites now is going national...]
You can find some other (possibly obsolete sites at the list on the Caltrans site)
Take a look at the cameras, particularly on the Puget Sound site.
What are these three sites showing? (what is the information content?)
Version of 3 January 2000
Sites for those who might want to create map servers:
ETAK Map Server software
StreetMate is the world's first portable satellite navigation system to give you step-by-step driver instructions throughout mainland Great Britain. (SONY / ETAK)
Open GIS web mapping