Maptivism - Maps for Activism, Transparency and Engagement

Map$vism  –  Maps  for  Ac$vism,  Transparency  and  Engagement  

Chris$an  Kreutz  

A  map  is  worth  a  thousand  words  

A  Map  of  the  World  An$-­‐Spanking  League   Jonas  Dagson  

hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-­‐children-­‐map.html  

Why  maps?  

Orienta$on   Reduce  complexity  

Perspec$ve   Context  

History  of  using  maps  

John  Snow's  discovery  that  cholera  is  spread  by  contaminated  water.  

hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-­‐cholera-­‐map-­‐1.jpg  

1854  

www.flickr.com/photos/dollar_bin  

www.eightmaps.com  

Maps  from  everybody  

By  Chris$an  Nold  (stockport.emo$onmap.net)  

Stockport  Emo$on  Map  

No  Maps  Land  

hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nairobi_Kibera_01.JPG  

www.mapkibera.org  

Map  Kibera  -­‐  OpenStreetMaps  

Map  of  Kibera  -­‐  Google  Maps  

Openstreetmap.org  

Before  the  Earthquake  

Openstreetmap.org  

Aaer  the  Earthquake  

Did  you  know  that  the  best  country  covered  from  OpenStreetMap  is  Germany?    

hFp://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4445981062/   Jeffrey  Warren  

grassrootsmapping.org  

Crowdsourcing  

We  all  can  contribute  to  maps!  

hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi  

Open  Source  Intelligence  

The  Beer  Belly  of  America  

It  is  esEmated  as  much  as  80%  of  data  contains  geo-­‐referenced  informaEon.  

www.mapnificent.de  

We  need  more  open  data.  

Map  +  AcEvism  =  MapEvism  

www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html  

NYC  Surveillance  Camera  Project  

www.watradehub.com  

Courtesy  the  Cedar  Grove  Ins$tute  for  Sustainable  Communi$es  

www.frankfurt-­‐gestalten.de  

*  RecogniEon:  Ooh  that’s  the  place  we  are  talking  about!  

 *  A  feeling  of  connecEon:  It’s  around  the  corner!  

*  ConnecEng  the  dots  (topics)  on  complex  issues.  

*  Engagement:  This  has  to  change!    I  want  to  help  out.  

And  the  future  

Andrew  Turner  (hFp://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/drupal-­‐and-­‐the-­‐geospa$al-­‐web)  

And  all  will  be  good?  

Privacy   Propaganda  

Discrimina$on   AFen$on  

crisscrossed.net  

TwiWer:  ckreutz  

Image:  www.die.net/earth/  

LINKS  AND  MAPS  

hFp://www.informa$onac$vism.org  hFp://www.tac$caltech.org/mapsforadvocacy  hFp://www.mundraub.org  hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-­‐children-­‐map.html  hFp://www.eightmaps.com  hFp://www.toiletradar.com  hFp://floa$ngsheep.org  hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi      hFp://www.worldmapper.org/  hFp://stockport.emo$onmap.net    hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-­‐children-­‐map.html  hFp://home.mindspring.com/~mcmoss/cedargrove  hFp://www.datavisualiza$on.ch/showcases/traffic-­‐on-­‐googlemaps  hFp://grassrootsmapping.org  hFp://wheelmap.org  hFp://www.mapnificent.de  hFp://www.openstreetmap.org  hFp://www.miller-­‐mccune.com/culture-­‐society/the-­‐revolu$on-­‐will-­‐be-­‐mapped-­‐7130  hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak  hFp://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html