[OSM-talk] First Monday on mapping

[Lars Aronsson]

"Many, many maps: Empowerment and online participatory mapping",
by David L. Tulloch,
First Monday, volume 12, number 2 (February 2007),
Paper received 11 January 2007; accepted 28 January 2007.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/tulloch/

Abstract

The convergence of public participatory mapping and cybertography 
is having far-reaching impacts through a variety of creative 
applications. This paper presents three different types of 
Internet mapping applications — Google Earth and Google Map API, 
Common Census, and a design exercise in Second Life — with a 
public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS) and 
cybercartography perspective. Each of these examples empowers 
users in a different way. The spatial applications and the 
supporting information that is being made available through 
Internet map applications represent a unique set of examples of 
the democratization possible through Internet applications.

In the text:

[...] As in the cases studies, the enthusiasm and creativity 
represented in activities as disparate as GPS art 
(http://www.gpsdrawing.com/) and a grassroots-generated open 
source street dataset (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/) demonstrate 
the sort of energy that the Internet can focus upon participatory 
spatial activities. The motivations of participants — especially 
those who volunteer hundreds or thousands of hours to processes 
that are not closely linked with productive outcomes — merit close 
attention.


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