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Google maps - Google entre dans le monde des systèmes d'information géographique

2005
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Avec Google Maps, le mammouth de la recherche sur l'internet riposte aux services de cartes existants, comme Yahoo Maps, Mapquest, Map24, etc. Ces services permettent notamment de consulter des cartes présentant de multiples fonctionnalités de recherche et de visualisation d'informations. Google vient par ailleurs de lancer sur le marché Google Earth - un programme qui reproduit les données de Google Maps en trois dimensions.

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Information

Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level, information pertains to the interpretation (perhaps formally) of that which may be sensed, or their abstractions. Any natural process that is not completely random and any observable pattern in any medium can be said to convey some amount of information. Whereas digital signals and other data use discrete signs to convey information, other phenomena and artefacts such as analogue signals, poems, pictures, music or other sounds, and currents convey information in a more continuous form.

Information content

In information theory, the information content, self-information, surprisal, or Shannon information is a basic quantity derived from the probability of a particular event occurring from a random variable. It can be thought of as an alternative way of expressing probability, much like odds or log-odds, but which has particular mathematical advantages in the setting of information theory. The Shannon information can be interpreted as quantifying the level of "surprise" of a particular outcome.

Information theory

Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and Claude Shannon in the 1940s. The field, in applied mathematics, is at the intersection of probability theory, statistics, computer science, statistical mechanics, information engineering, and electrical engineering. A key measure in information theory is entropy.

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