Context awarenessContext awareness refers, in information and communication technologies, to a capability to take into account the situation of entities, which may be users or devices, but are not limited to those. Location is only the most obvious element of this situation. Narrowly defined for mobile devices, context awareness does thus generalize location awareness. Whereas location may determine how certain processes around a contributing device operate, context may be applied more flexibly with mobile users, especially with users of smart phones.
Cartographie en ligneLa cartographie en ligne (en anglais : web mapping ou webmapping) est la forme de la cartographie numérique qui fait usage d'Internet pour pouvoir produire, concevoir, traiter et publier des cartes géographiques. Elle repose sur les services Web dans la logique du cloud computing. Avec le Web 2.0, de nombreux services Web cartographiques sont apparus (cf palette en fin d'article). Certains sont « propriétaires », tels que Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps, etc. D'autres sont fondés sur des démarches coopératives libres, tel que OpenStreetMap.
Collaborative mappingCollaborative mapping, also known as citizen mapping, is the aggregation of Web mapping and user-generated content, from a group of individuals or entities, and can take several distinct forms. With the growth of technology for storing and sharing maps, collaborative maps have become competitors to commercial services, in the case of OpenStreetMap, or components of them, as in Google Map Maker Waze and Yandex Map Editor.
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