Emerging mapping practices in and out of the classroom
Matthew W. Wilson, PhDAssistant Professor of GeographyEmerging Media Initiative Ball State [email protected]
20 November 2009EMI Workshop
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Emerging Mapping Practices
Emerging Mapping Practices
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Emerging Mapping Practices
Emerging Mapping Practices
Classroom
[ as collaborative laboratory ]
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Emerging Mapping Practices
Emerging Mapping Practices
Classroom
[ as collaborative laboratory ]
‘Out there’
[ industry, government,
academy, nonprofits, hobbyists ]
‘GIS Workshop’ (GEOG448)
• Student teams will work with organizations to:– develop hard copy maps,– collect primary spatial data using GPS,– transform existing organizational data into spatial
data,– analyze spatial data, and/or– develop web-based mapping solutions.
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Develop Hard Copy Maps
• Students will be able to update existing maps, or work with an organization’s spatial data to produce new mappings or analyses.
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Existing Spatial DataExisting Spatial Data
New Maps or
New Analyses
New Maps or
New Analyses
Collect Primary Spatial Data Using GPS
• Students will be able to use GPS Receivers to collect spatial data in the field.
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Collect GPS DataCollect GPS Data
New Maps or
New Analyses
New Maps or
New Analyses
Transform Existing Organizational Data
• Students will be able to take existing organizational data (e.g. Excel data) and transform it into spatial data.
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Transform Organizational DataTransform Organizational Data
New Maps or
New Analyses
New Maps or
New Analyses
Feature Address
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Analyze Spatial Data
• Students will be able to use GIS to analyze spatial data:– demographics– service-provision– network analysis– 3D spatial
visualizations
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Develop Web-Based Mapping Solutions
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• Students will be able to take spatial data and prepare it for display on a website– PDF maps– GoogleMaps API
Partnering with the Community
• up to 20 students, offered every Spring semester• 10 weeks of partnering• Example partners:
– United Way and Lifestream (livable communities, childcare provision, service centers)
– Open Door/BMH (service provision, target populations/areas)
– Building Better Communities
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Emerging Mapping Practices
Emerging Mapping Practices
Classroom
[ as collaborative laboratory ]
‘Out there’
[ industry, government,
academy, nonprofits, hobbyists ]
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[ from Wired Magazine, 23 June 2008 ]
…in the age of data about everything, has theory really died?
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communities of communities…
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photos of landscapes | landscapes of photos
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photos of landscapes | landscapes of photos
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photos of landscapes | landscapes of photos
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my photos of landscapes… …my landscapes of photos
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photo mapping games
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edible content
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cataloguing content
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informative content
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content advisory
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open source content
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[ from WUN Lecture, Crampton, 8 Oct. 2008 ]
positionings within geography
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‘neo’-geography
‘paleo’-geographyexpert
traditional
formalstable
interoperable
scientific
amateurinformalemergent
heterogeneous
volunteered
ephemeral
artistic
aggregable
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
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Geography of Emerging MappingPractices
Conditions of emergence
Continued development
Production
Re-production / mashup
Limits to re-production
Use / interpretation
Limits to use
Challenges to disciplinary thinking
Parting Thoughts
• re-investing in theory, postmortem– towards ‘theories’, not Generalization (let it die?)
• mapping neogeographic practices– what potential methods exist for
heterogeneous data aggregation?– what might mappings of neogeographic
practices tell us about: • digital divide, convergence, sociospatial segregation,
visual hierarchy, collaborations, etc.?
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[ Global Placemark Intensity from floatingsheep.org, via Mark Graham, 15 June 2009 ]
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