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051207 Commonsense Geography Meets Web Technology
1. Online Community Mapping
Commonsense Geography meets
Web T h l
W b Technology:
Online Community Mapping
Open GIS & W b GIS 2005 Conference
O Web C f
Dec.7, 2005 Taipei, Taiwan
Andrea Wei-Ching Huang and Tyng-Ruey Chuang
Wei- Tyng-
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
Online Community Mapping
Outline
• Introduction
• APProposed Model
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• Open Collaborative Technologies
• Open Public Access
• Conclusion
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“GIS can be used by the public to
solve day-to-day problems ”
day-to- problems.
Online
Community
Mapping
Not a dream to Egenhofer, M. J. and Mark, D. M (1995)?
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What Phenomenon is sweeping the Internet ?
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2003~2004 Online Map Usage has increased 60% world wide
( Nielsen NetRatings, October 2004)
2004/ US Map Searching becomes top activity online in US.
(Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, Dec.2004 )
2005/ US
After Google Map release… a proliferation of
Map’s
online map websites… quot;This is like the 1990's, when
everyone was creating everything on the Web.quot; (NYTimes
October 20, 2005 )
2005/ UK Data supplied by Ordnance Survey (OS) adds an
annual value of more than £100bn to the UK
economy. (Guardian, April 7, 2005)
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2. A Proposed Model
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We trace the emergence of specific features:
see Chuang and Huang (2005)
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functionalize
web technology phenomenalize
integrated
theorize
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At this point in time: we can say with confidence
that people, place, participation are emerging in
“Online Community Mapping”.
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In th
I theory, naïve geography
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stress
common-sense
geography of the world
next-generation GIS
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theory base
allow “errors” &
“inconsistent” in data
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3. Open Collaborative
Technology
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How to make
available user-
user-
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generated
geospatial data to
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those who are
interested in it?
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Enabling Factors in Collaborative Geospatial Mapping
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Software tools for
collaboration & social
interaction
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Geography Information
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Technology
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In our experience,
Geography Markup Language (GML) and Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) well utilize existing open source resources
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Taiwan Population Mapping Taipei City GML-based
(http://tsm.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) Interoperable Geo-spatial Systems
map rendering in SVG Topographical map rendering in SVG and GML
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social software mechanisms enable
group participation and collaboration
Social Software
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•for document creation (wiki
wiki)
•personal publishing and syndication (blog
blog)
• social bookmark for links sharing (del icio us
(del.icio.us
del
del.icio.us)
us)
• photo sharing (fliker
fliker)
• social tagging (technorati
technorati)
•resource sharing (Bi T
h i (BitTorrent)
BitTorrent)
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a well-mixed bowl of
well- i d b l f
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wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software
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powerful tools for facilitating social
f l t l f f ilit ti i l
communication, creating and
maintaining online communities
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open, simple and freely editability
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Mechanism Design in Blogging Software
1. Permalink: makes cross referencing and
Permalink:
discourse easier
2. Trackback: automates cross blog referencing;
Trackback:
converse and keeps correspondence explicit
and persistent.
3. RSS and Atom, enables easy syndication
Atom,
and aggregation of blog content.
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who are combing social software
to geo-place
geo-
Examples of (geo + blog) / (geo +wiki), see Chuang and Huang (2005)
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geo-spatial data
complex
p
sophisticated set of tools
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4.
4 Open Public Access
demand for
access to a
IT + Web variety of geo
data
have not kept pace
with d
ith developments
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data dissemination and licensing frameworks
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The major barriers and impediments to
achieve collaborative geospatial mapping
will not be technical but rather
organisational
and
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i tit ti
institutional.
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Public Information
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Innovative Information Services
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Public Participation
online games, online auctions, e-f
li li ti e-forums,
newsletters, BBS and blog communities.
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Public Li
P bli Licensing
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most major mapping agencies copyright
their geodata, except for the US,CAN,
Brazil, AUS,
Brazil AUS and NZ
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•t l for empowerment of
tool f t f
citizens
•sale data significant revenue
•restricted = diminishing
activities in education and
research •the user- pay model
•revenue from advertisements •fears of intellectual
property leakage
•may contradict •knowledge economy
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government’s
government’s roles
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Choices of Public License for Geospatial
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Information are in Hand
•GNU General Public License (for
source code)
•GNU Free Documentation License
for documentation
•Creative Commons Licenses (for
general creative work
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Examples
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create freely usable geographic data and
products at local scales
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UK based OpenStreetMap.org project adapts the GNU
GPL for its software development and Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license for those
collaborative content creation.
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Our perspectives
• Online, open, and collaborative exploration of
domain spaces is one of the most successful web
paradigms
paradigms.
• We advocate more flexible licensing models.
• Geo spatial dataset release should be in source
Geo-spatial
forms.
• and should be accompanied by the necessary data
models (i.e., schema), metadata and catalog
descriptions, data format definitions, and source
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code of the related software tools.
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5. Conclusion
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GeoReport (November, 2005)
asked:
• Is it’s important to be able to add multiple
data layers when using an online viewer
d t l h i li i
( such as Google Map/Earth, Yahoo Maps
or Microsoft Virtual Earth)?
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95 % says
it is important to be able to
add their own data.
dd th i data.
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The availability and validity of data will
be enriched and corrected by the one
who own the body of knowledge about
their surrounding geographical world.
world.
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Enabling Factors in Collaborative Geo spatial Mapping
Geo-spatial
The k
Th key underlying here is
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