Monday, 9 March 2009

KML in Research Award to thematicmapping.org

Today, Google announced that one of my KML visualisations won a prize in the KML in Research contest. The animated prism map shows Global Infant Mortality from 1960 to 2005. The statistical data was downloaded from UNdata, a great resource for global statistics. 

The statistics can be explored in time and space. Click here to download the KMZ file.
My dissertation, Using KML for Thematic Mapping, was also awarded the MSc Dissertation Prize at University of Edinburgh. The second part of my dissertation gives a detailed description of the Thematic Mapping Engine, and can be downloaded from thematicmapping.org. 

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 March 2009 at 21:13

    Congratulations on both counts. Your innovative work in this area certainly deserves recognition.

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  2. Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations9 March 2009 at 22:04

    Congratulations Bjørn! Hope to see you back in the States soon.

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  3. Matt Giger9 March 2009 at 22:08

    Great job Bjørn, congratulations.

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  4. Unknown9 March 2009 at 23:26

    Congratulations for your impressive work!

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  5. Unknown31 March 2009 at 02:45

    Hello.

    Except this blog, your other web pages are in "time out"?

    When will this situation be recovered?

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  6. Mapping services1 April 2009 at 07:42

    great news! Congratulations for nice work.
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