google map is not the map
DESCRIPTION
Information is more than ever geolocated, but who decides what we see on maps? who curates that information? Maps have never been neutral, but now they are ubiquitous. This session will be a hands on workshop to enter the maps world and understand how communities can produce and edit their own maps (with openstreetmap.org) and edit and curate information above them (meipi.org). The workshop will explore ways to integrate critical maps created in other platforms and websites. Description Have you ever wanted to make your own map but you didn't know how? Do you want to use your GPS/smart phone? People usually approach maps as inert things, as invariable objects. Now, it's easy to make your own maps and meanwhile understand that maps are not neutral, that Google Maps is not The Map, but just another map. GPS devices and smart phones, DIY aerial cartography (the Public Laboratory), OpenStreetMap map making, are making easier building maps and sharing them. BYO laptop, smartphone or GPS, but if you don't have one, come anyway. Maps can be drawn with a pencil. Workshop. at AMC. Friday June 29th 2012 Detroit, Michigan. USA http://amc.alliedmedia.org/ http://talk.alliedmedia.org/amc2012/sessions/google-maps-not-mapTRANSCRIPT
Google Maps it not The Map @numeroteca #notGmaps
http://talk.alliedmedia.org/amc2012/sessions/google-maps-not-map http://bit.ly/notthemap numeroteca.org
http://numeroteca.org/2012/02/27/gps-traces-cambridge/
Maps are not neutral
http://numeroteca.org/2012/06/12/europa-2013/
Google Maps
Mercator projection
Digital Cartographies:Bing, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap
They all use Mercator projection
Google Maps is not The Map
#notGmaps
Notes: http://bit.ly/notthemap
Pablo Rey Mazón@numeroteca
Meipi / Basurama / Montera34
Google Maps is not The Map
Google Maps are not The MapBing + Yahoo
Google Maps are not The MapBing + YahooMercator projection
Maps are subjective
Layers in Digital Maps
Landfill Wheelabrator Saugus Inc. Ash Landfill + Incinerator. MA
http://meipi.org/cambridgewaste
With OpenStreetmap you can edit the map.
Who owns the data?Who has the vectors?
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635
Online maps:Vectors Images
Tiles: square images that form the map
Editing vectort in OpenStreetMap. Potlach2
Edit a map
HANDS ONEditing vectors at
OpenStreetMap.org
http://publiclaboratory.org/
http://mapknitter.org/maps/saugus-incinerator-landfill
http://basurama.org/transtrash/2011/10/19/saugus-ash-landfill-map/
http://basurama.org/transtrash/
http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/1-3-2012/progress-nrg-compositing-mapknitter
Image from @immaginoteca
-Meipi. Online version: Meipi.org
-Ushahidi. Online version: Crowdmap.org
-Google Maps / Google earth: My maps.
-Meipi. Online version: Meipi.org
-Ushahidi. Online version: Crowdmap.org
-Google Maps / Google earth: My maps.
Fine tuning Mapbox
Texts, photos, videos, audios...
Google Maps
Meipi.org
who wants the olimpics?
Info on a Map
HANDS ONUploading info collectively to a map
http://meipi.org/Detroitamc
Mapping: GPS are not only for cars.
Be a cartographer.
.gpx
Time stamp + Location
<trk> <name>Example GPX Document</name> <trkseg> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.46</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.94</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:31Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>6.87</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:34Z</time> </trkpt> </trkseg> </trk>
<trk> <name>Example GPX Document</name> <trkseg> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.46</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.94</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:31Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>6.87</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:34Z</time> </trkpt> </trkseg> </trk>
A point
<trk> <name>Example GPX Document</name> <trkseg> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.46</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.94</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:31Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>6.87</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:34Z</time> </trkpt> </trkseg> </trk>
Location
<trk> <name>Example GPX Document</name> <trkseg> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.46</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:26Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>4.94</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:31Z</time> </trkpt> <trkpt lat="47.644548" lon="-122.326897"> <ele>6.87</ele> <time>2009-10-17T18:37:34Z</time> </trkpt> </trkseg> </trk>
Time stamp
Where I am? Smart Phones
GPS: "fine" location, accurate. Stellites
Wifi: Using a database of hotspots google collected when doing streetview.
3G: Using database of base stations and some very rough triangualtion.
Paths to #amc2012
HANDS ONCollective tracks
Draw your way to the #amc2012
1. As we can not “record” with a GPS that trip, we can draw the path you took to come to the amc2012 with http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/draw/
An alternative solution is to use google earth and
export the route as .kmz or .kml and convert it to gpx
with http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/2. Click save “GPX” in http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/draw/3. Download the .gpx file.4. Upload material to a dropbox folder / email it. Export it as
yourname.gpx5. Use JOSM to merge all the .gpx files into one file.
open google street maps to see all the tracks6. We will generate a unique allthetracks.gpx file with all the tracks
Open the allthetracks.gpx file with google earth. To see it7. Conversion from gpx to svg (vector format) in
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/8. Open in Inkscape and modify an publish.
Google Maps is not The Map
#notGmaps
Notes: http://bit.ly/notthemap
Pablo Rey Mazón@numeroteca
Meipi / Basurama / Montera34
Extras
Geotagging your photos http://www.6000km.org/2010/09/05/geotagging-the-ruhr-the-method/