Participatory cartography and OpenStreetMap
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The document discusses the multifaceted nature of maps, highlighting their technical, political, artistic, and social dimensions, particularly in the context of participatory cartography and OpenStreetMap. It emphasizes the role of community engagement in mapping activities, including the contributions of marginalized groups and the importance of broader contributor diversity for knowledge and data representation. Additionally, it outlines initiatives like crisis mapping and resources for the visually impaired, illustrating the evolving landscape of mapping technologies and their societal implications.
Participatory cartography and OpenStreetMap
- 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
- 6. Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World
- 7. Maps are political statements.
- 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
- 20. Collaborative and Social Professional vs. Amateur
- 23. ● Free/Open Source ● Crowdsourcing ● Wikification of Maps ● 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
- 26. Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 26
- 27. Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 27
- 28. Crisis Mapping / Humanitarian Mapping Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
- 29. OSM for the Blind ● http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_bli ● http://www.blind.accessiblemaps.org/ Software and maps for the blind is usually expensive and also outdated.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 ● Geo-referenced information ● 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 ● larger group of potential contributors ● ● ● 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. Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 34