The document discusses the relationship between geographic data, maps, and the internet. It explores how geotagged social media data like photos on Flickr can be used to infer place boundaries and relationships between locations. It also examines open mapping projects and tools that facilitate working with geographic data online.

1. Agency is the Intelligent Design
of the Internet
Aaron Straup Cope, January 2011

2. mood music

3. banana bacon
noodles ice cream

4. psycho photo
geography synth

5. open street map
“grown ups”

6. the fun part

8. DIY
tuna blaster

9. who cares?
iphone
DIY
tuna blaster

10. who cares?
iphone
DIY too late
tuna blaster google

11. who cares? policy
iphone
“boring”
DIY too late
tuna blaster google

12. consequences

13. aka “visualizing blame”

15. I want to believe
(but I donʼt)

16. the Internet
c. 1993
telecommunications
policy c. 1990

17. “Internet Service Providers”

18. inter WHAT????

19. the street finds its
own use for things

20. learning on the street

21. the role of
the megalomaniac?

22. “the city as battlesuit”

23. http://sta.mn/73y
http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future

24. a gateway drug
for civic participation

25. “here be dragons”

26. Internet Typist

27. stamen (.com)

28. maps

29. august 28, 2006

30. “I am not a number”

31. all neighbourhoods
are disputed

32. reverse geocoding

33. nearest linear object

35. flickr

36. continent
country
region
county maybe
“metropolitan area”
locality and airports (and “hollywood”)
neighbourhood

37. North America 24865672
United States 23424977
California 2347563
San Francisco 12587707
“San Francisco Bay Area” “we suck”
San Francisco 2487956
The Mission 2452334

38. fireeagle

39. village megatropolis

40. dopplr

41. San Francisco
San Jose

42. where on earth

43. bounding boxes

44. the banana problem

45. inappropriate touching

46. you are here

47. the reality

48. the “reality”

49. synthetic reality

50. kill me now

51. 90 million
geotagged photos (c. 2008)

52. buckets
of points

53. connect the dots

54. the shape of content

55. http://sta.mn/xn
http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/
Alpha_shapes_2/Chapter_main.html

56. ice cream!

59. http://sta.mn/52g
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/

61. you are here

62. areas of / you are here

63. http://sta.mn/vjd
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/

68. ceçi nʼest pas
une banane

69. no GIS data
was harmed

70. “corrections”

71. http://sta.mn/yyg
http://blip.tv/file/969021

72. http://sta.mn/kn3
https://github.com/straup/Clustr

73. http://sta.mn/k5
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2011/01/08/flickr-shapefiles-public-
dataset-2-0/

74. Yay, Nils!

75. the bias knob

77. http://sta.mn/9nq
http://shapetiles.spum.org/

78. http://sta.mn/7m6
http://www.tilestache.org/

79. http://sta.mn/hc
http://www.polymaps.org/

80. http://sta.mn/q4t
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

81. making a technical
problem interesting

82. http://sta.mn/zpp
http://prettymaps.stamen.com/

84. data as textiles

87. itʼs not always about
bombing your enemies

88. history boxes

89. machine tags

90. “rdf:describes=flickr”

91. predicate
“rdf:describes=flickr”
namespace value

92. upcoming:event=415171

93. HOT API ACTION
http://upcoming.yahooapis.com/services/rest/?
method=event.getInfo&event_id=415171

95. http://sta.mn/fbw
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/415171/

96. small bridges

98. enplacification

100. http://sta.mn/kd
http://mncaudill.github.com/flickr-machinetag-geo/

102. http://sta.mn/wb
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-
even-for-us/

103. highway=no

104. “It has since been retagged to highway=footway /
tunnel=yes / bicycle=yes which is technically accurate
since there is a walkway along the collider's path on
which they ride bicycles to get around. At least while
the collider is not in operation.”
http://sta.mn/2xf
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

105. motives and loopholes

106. you are here

107. thank you
http://www.aaronland.info | @thisisaaronland

108. 1 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/23962008@N04/2557090245/ (used with permission)
2 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/5047666113/
3-4/ http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/11/14/andthen/#dragons
5 / http://www.openstreetmap.org/
6 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/5207079206/
7-11 / http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/02/04/cheap/#agency
12 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidliong06/334044428/
14 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/31333486@N00/2061604606/
15 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigmcinnes/105091321/
18 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffwerner/2624416077/
19 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdfalk/1766465569/ (used with permission)
20 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2692305534/
21/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/shashashasha/5284497781/
22/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/timmy/5342241968/
23 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/slavin_fpo/4985712019/
23 / http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future
24 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/aggressivepanhandler/5186058180/ (used with permission)
25 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/troutwerks/5125163754/
26 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanan/3821734742/
27 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/4109645131
28 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/bopuc/2238348906/
29 / http://blog.flickr.net/en/2006/08/28/great-shot-whered-you-take-that/
30 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincollins/5247591087/
31 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895/
32 / http://flickr.com/photos/mtlweblog/185132626/
33 / http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2115985327/
34 / http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/C.B.Jones/JonesWareCJ98.pdf
35 / http://flickr.com/photos/straup/322405443
36-37 / http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html#placetypes
38 / http://flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/2434362687
39 / http://fireeagle.yahoo.com/

109. 40 / http://flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/245027280/
41 / http://www.dopplr.com/
42 / http://woe.spum.org/
42/ http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/04/05/milkshake/#woedb
43 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/_mia/3445220156/
44 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/calsidyrose/4261377834/
45 / http://biogeo.berkeley.edu/gadm/
50 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/4081704326/
51 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/tominsam/4924246635/
52 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/angermann/3455505520/
53 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3133070488/
54 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/4080929848
55 / http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Alpha_shapes_2/Chapter_main.html
56 / https://www.github.com/straup/Clustr/
57- 61 / http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
62 / http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/04/05/milkshake/#youarehere
63 - 67 / http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/
69 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3204132340/
70 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/slavin_fpo/3657601202
71 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2493423994/
71 / http://blip.tv/file/969021
72 / https://github.com/straup/Clustr
73 / http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2009/04/12/hammock/#py-wsclustr-php
73 / http://code.flickr.com/blog/2011/01/08/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-2-0/
74 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanan/3821734742/
75 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/4393161080/
76 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/4775151204/
77 / http://shapetiles.spum.org
78 / http://www.tilestache.org/
79 / http://www.polymaps.org/

110. 79 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/by-sgillies/5062523873/
80 / http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
80 / http://maps.nypl.org/
81 - 86 / http://prettymaps.stamen.com/
87 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3084890631/
88 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2611150655/
89 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcottam/3971780496/
90 - 91 / http://www.aaronland.info/talks/mw10_machinetags/
92, 94 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2355757771/
93 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylesdgrant/362927301/
95 / http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/415171/
96 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/squash/2627481492/
97 / http://twitter.com/cjmartin/status/10568412103184384
98 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/5247094507/
99 / http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2010/12/06/urmum/#enplacify
100 / http://mncaudill.github.com/flickr-machinetag-geo/
101 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3888504942
102 / http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24460886
102 / http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/09/28/thats-maybe-a-bit-too-dorky-even-for-us/
103 / http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Large_Hadron_Collider_at_CERN_map.svg
104 / http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer
105 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/3122875223/
106 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/pstar/397375505/
107 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/2355063565/