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Quaint GIS Headlines

Thursday, November 29th 2012
By Adena Schutzberg

Once upon a time reporters and those at the local paper wrote headlines just for their local paper. That paper didn't travel too far. But now, things have changed and those headlines and stories are available worldwide. That makes these headlines seem so quaint and ironically devoid of geographic context. 

County to Showcase GIS Capabilities at Event

GIS Event to Be Held Thursday

150 attend GIS conference

The headlines are not the problem, really. It's that these atomic bits are being stripped from their home websites by search engines without the metadata (aka location information such as "which county") they used to carry along. 

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