Slides presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum's Digital Futures networking event on 21 January 2014 (Digital Studio, Sackler Centre). https://www.facebook.com/events/281721918642856/

1. Participatory Cartography
and OpenStreetMap
Yuwei Lin
University for the Creative Arts
Prepared for the Digital Futures event, V&A, London, 21 January 2014

2. Maps are technical instruments.

3. Navigation

4. Map of Benjamin Brecknell
Turner's photographs

5. Visualisation

6. Maps That Will Help You
Make Sense of the World

7. Maps are political statements.

8. Psalter Map (1260)

9. Plan de Mérian (1615)

10. Plan de Turgot (1734-6)

11. Satirical Map of Europe

14. Maps are art works.

15. Antique Map of London

16. Storytelling –
Lord of the Ring

17. Maps are social products.

18. Memory maps

19. The lone cartographer?

20. Collaborative and Social
Professional vs. Amateur

21. Authoritative vs. Playful

22. Embodiment
Personal experiences,
memories,
identities,
belongings,
emotions,
ideologies,
philosophies.

23. ●
Free/Open Source
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Crowdsourcing
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Wikification of Maps
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Participatory

24. Sociological questions
Who are the OpenStreetMap mappers?
What do they do?
How do they do what they do?
Why do they do what they do?
When do they do what they do?
Which community? Which platform? Which tool?

25. Social interaction and social engagement
Mapping parties,
Beer and BBQ
Meet-ups

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28. Crisis Mapping /
Humanitarian Mapping
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

29. OSM for the Blind
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_bli
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http://www.blind.accessiblemaps.org/
Software and maps for the blind is
usually expensive and also outdated.
The blind community can help
themselves update the maps.

30. Locative Media
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Geo-referenced information
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Geo retailing, location-based marketing

31. Contexts
When new names arrived...
When disaster happened...
- new country in Africa
- new city plan in Vienna
- new shop in town (add POIs)

32. Knowledge, Power, Community, Democracy

33. Advantages of broader contributor groups
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larger group of potential contributors
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for collecting data
for updating data
more diverse views of the world
Knowledge/data is created in different contexts. What content is regarded relevant?
(Elwood 2008; LAM et al. 2011; Callahan & Herring 2011)
“'the exclusion and under-representation of information from
and about marginalised people and places in existing data
records is linked to the ensuing exclusion of their needs and
priorities from policy and decision making processes”
(Elwood 2008)

34. Thank you for your attention!
http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/fem2map
This work was funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport,
Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) within the structural research
program FEMtech fFORTE.
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