participatory cartography and openstreetmap
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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/TRANSCRIPT
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Yuwei Lin
University for the Creative Arts
Participatory Cartography and OpenStreetMap
Prepared for the Digital Futures event, V&A, London, 21 January 2014
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Maps are technical instruments.
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Navigation
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Map of Benjamin Brecknell Turner's photographs
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Visualisation
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Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World
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Maps are political statements.
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Psalter Map (1260)
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Plan de Mérian (1615)
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Plan de Turgot (1734-6)
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Satirical Map of Europe
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Maps are art works.
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Antique Map of London
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Storytelling – Lord of the Ring
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Maps are social products.
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Memory maps
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The lone cartographer?
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Collaborative and Social
Professional vs. Amateur
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Authoritative vs. Playful
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Personal experiences, memories, identities,
belongings, emotions, ideologies,
philosophies.
Embodiment
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● Crowdsourcing● Participatory
● Free/Open Source● Wikification of Maps
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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?
Sociological questions
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Social interaction and social engagement
Mapping parties,Beer and BBQ
Meet-ups
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Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 26
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Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 27
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Crisis Mapping /Humanitarian Mapping
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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OSM for the Blind
● http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_blind● 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.
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Locative Media● Geo-referenced information● Geo retailing, location-based marketing
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When new names arrived...When disaster happened...
- new country in Africa- new city plan in Vienna
- new shop in town (add POIs)
Contexts
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Knowledge, Power, Community, Democracy
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Advantages of broader contributor groups● larger group of potential contributors
● for collecting data● for updating data
● more diverse views of the worldKnowledge/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)
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Women who made OpenStreetMap | FLOSSIE 2013 | 8-9 November 2013 | London 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.