For David Percy, URISA GIS Oregon Developers group. Was asked to speak about some of the bottom up phenomena to complement the GIS expertise this group already had. Spoke to motives and pressures that are encouraging people to become citizen mappers.
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What Is Neogeography
1. what is neogeography?
anselm@hook.org
(415) 215 4856
http://hook.org
http://meedan.net
march 7th 2008
2. what does google say?
Andrew Turner (Mapufacture) has some
thoughts:
http://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/gisday2007-
neogeography-and-gis
”geographical techniques and tools used for
personal activities or for utilization by a non-
expert group of users; not formal or analytical”
3. can buzzwords capture it?
openstreetmaps, openlayers, kml, georss,
microformats, ”community versus committee”,
exploration, explanation, digitization,
democratization, web 2.0, open data, creative
commons, citizen mapping, renaissance, social,
grassroots, gis, gps, ”wiki as a universal
solvent”, socialight, platial, plazes, flickr, google
mymaps, world66, fireeagle, mapufacture,
osgeo, geocodr???
4. is openstreetmaps it?
free labour
free source code
open standards
open data
new standards,
schemas and
protocols
sparked by ordance
survey
”wiki like”
5. is it merely an opposition?
to the role of being just a consumer?
to boundary makers that cut apart ecosystems,
economies and communities?
to industrial cartography?
to manufacturing perception?
to licensing issues?
6. the industry struggles
still evolving language
such as ”volunteered
geographic
information”
industry extends to
meet new needs
(tiling, wfs-t...)
amateurs do adopt
standards eventually
7. it may be a language?
a kind of l33t speak
a way to socialize
ownership over terms
with freedom to steal
& freedom to rewrite
just people talking
like social practice art
8. mapping the unmapped
volatile and transient
censured; grafitti
subjective; histories
illegal; criticism
copyrighted; britain
ephemeral; first love
9. a response to obstacles?
scaling to allow many participants
signalling other people in real time
noise and spam
rights and trust
10. the scaling problem
how do you let a million people contribute in
real time to a map?
velocity, quality, cost-savings -> pick 2
”good enough” is the enemy of best
see wikipedia, linux, craigslist, delicious...
we see distributed, non-centralized,
aggregation centric strategies
11. the signalling problem
the voice we had when we lived in small towns
being able to stick a fistful of dollars in the air
emerging real-time brokerages; fireeagle etc
towards craigslist 2.0
just in time negotiation; finding that hotel room
landing at the airport in that strange new place
12. the noise problem
my god it's full of spam
(hint; knowing where starbucks is - this is spam)
existing social networks can help filter
previously seen interests can help filter
apprehending the world from somebody elses
point of view
13. the rights problem
unabdicate ownership
over representation
reclaim responsibility
to map ourselves
shows how important
creative commons
licensing will become
”salmon nation” is a
good example
14. the trust problem
when it affects your
life – do you trust it?
who made the maps?
do you trust them?
Secrets and
reciprocal
disclosure...
15. towards future maps
we may all begin to map every day all the time
maps become a language between peers
maps become more like video games
maps help placemaking not just placemarking
maps help us see how to reach a 'middle way'
between forest preserve and urban jungle
professionals utilize ”eyeballs on the ground”
more.
16. my hope and interest
maps become a way for all of us to collect
ground truth about our ecosystems; to
participate and to care more
maps may even become predictive modelling
tools to help make argument
maps become an equalizer between parties of
vastly different scales when talking about land
use policy
we may understand and respect each others
and our planets needs better
17. Wherecamp 2008!
Google Campus
May 17th 2008
Free!
All weekend – camp over if you wish
Geek out, hack, socialize in an extended setting
18. a few fun links
http://del.icio.us/tag/geo
http://ecotrust.org
http://urbanscout.org
http://urbanedibles.org/
http://cityrepair.org
http://www.slashfood.com/tag/LocalFood/
http://deliciouscorpse.com
19. reaching me
anselm@hook.org
(415) 215 4856
http://hook.org/whereisanselm?
http://meedan.net
http://makerlab.org
This presentation will appear on hook.org