what is neogeography? [email protected] (415) 215 4856 http://hook.org http://meedan.net march 7 th 2008
Nov 29, 2014
what is neogeography?
[email protected] (415) 215 4856 http://hook.org http://meedan.net march 7th 2008
what does google say?
Andrew Turner (Mapufacture) has some thoughts:
http://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/gisday2007-neogeography-and-gis
”geographical techniques and tools used for personal activities or for utilization by a non-expert group of users; not formal or analytical”
can buzzwords capture it?
openstreetmaps, openlayers, kml, georss, microformats, ”community versus committee”, exploration, explanation, digitization, democratization, web 2.0, open data, creative commons, citizen mapping, renaissance, social, grassroots, gis, gps, ”wiki as a universal solvent”, socialight, platial, plazes, flickr, google mymaps, world66, fireeagle, mapufacture, osgeo, geocodr???
is openstreetmaps it?
free labour free source code open standards open data new standards,
schemas and protocols
sparked by ordance survey
”wiki like”
is it merely an opposition?
to the role of being just a consumer? to boundary makers that cut apart ecosystems,
economies and communities? to industrial cartography? to manufacturing perception? to licensing issues?
the industry struggles
still evolving language such as ”volunteered geographic information”
industry extends to meet new needs (tiling, wfs-t...)
amateurs do adopt standards eventually
it may be a language?
a kind of l33t speak a way to socialize ownership over terms with freedom to steal & freedom to rewrite just people talking like social practice art
mapping the unmapped
volatile and transient censured; grafitti subjective; histories illegal; criticism copyrighted; britain ephemeral; first love
a response to obstacles?
scaling to allow many participants signalling other people in real time noise and spam rights and trust
the scaling problem
how do you let a million people contribute in real time to a map?
velocity, quality, cost-savings -> pick 2 ”good enough” is the enemy of best see wikipedia, linux, craigslist, delicious... we see distributed, non-centralized,
aggregation centric strategies
the signalling problem
the voice we had when we lived in small towns being able to stick a fistful of dollars in the air emerging real-time brokerages; fireeagle etc towards craigslist 2.0 just in time negotiation; finding that hotel room landing at the airport in that strange new place
the noise problem
my god it's full of spam (hint; knowing where starbucks is - this is spam) existing social networks can help filter previously seen interests can help filter apprehending the world from somebody elses
point of view
the rights problem
unabdicate ownership over representation
reclaim responsibility to map ourselves
shows how important creative commons licensing will become
”salmon nation” is a good example
the trust problem
when it affects your life – do you trust it?
who made the maps? do you trust them?
Secrets and reciprocal disclosure...
towards future maps
we may all begin to map every day all the time maps become a language between peers maps become more like video games maps help placemaking not just placemarking maps help us see how to reach a 'middle way'
between forest preserve and urban jungle professionals utilize ”eyeballs on the ground”
more.
my hope and interest
maps become a way for all of us to collect ground truth about our ecosystems; to participate and to care more
maps may even become predictive modelling tools to help make argument
maps become an equalizer between parties of vastly different scales when talking about land use policy
we may understand and respect each others and our planets needs better
Wherecamp 2008!
Google Campus May 17th 2008 Free! All weekend – camp over if you wish Geek out, hack, socialize in an extended setting
a few fun links
http://del.icio.us/tag/geo http://ecotrust.org http://urbanscout.org http://urbanedibles.org/ http://cityrepair.org http://www.slashfood.com/tag/LocalFood/ http://deliciouscorpse.com
reaching me
[email protected] (415) 215 4856 http://hook.org/whereisanselm? http://meedan.net http://makerlab.org This presentation will appear on hook.org