GI Management Transformation: from geometry to databased relationships

Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives

Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University & Programmable City, Maynooth University

How is the city translated into software and data?

Programmable City Project

Translation:

City into Code/Data

Transduction:

Code/Data Reshape City

THE CITYSOFTWARE/DATA

Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models

Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation

How do software and data reshape the city?

Socio-technological data assemblage

Material Platform

(infrastructure – hardware)

Code Platform

(operating system)

Code/algorithms

(software)

Data(base)

Interface

Reception/Operation

(user/usage)

Systems of thought

Forms of knowledge

Finance

Political economies

Governmentalities & legalities

Organisations and institutions

Subjectivities and communities

Marketplace

System/process

performs a task

Context

frames the system/task

Digital socio-technical assemblage

HCI, remediation studies

Critical code studies

Software studies

Critical data studies

New media studies

game studies

Critical Social Science

Science Technology Studies

Platform studies

Places

Practices

Flowline/Lifecycle

The Data Revolution, Rob Kitchin, 2014.

Prime 2 Models and Concepts

Skin of the earth ‘real world’ object modelling

5 skin of the earth objects

Ways

Water

Vegetation

Artificial

Exposed

Z-Layer

Superimposed Objects

Segmentation & Connectivity

GDF1 GDF2 centrelines

Sites & Locals

Boundaries

Links objects using persistent ID’s

Form & Function object classification

3D data storage (CityGML LOD2)

Grouped

Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons tha

cover the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

Cassini, 6”, 1st ed. Circa?

Heuston station across time

Cassini 6”, 1943-44

Cassini 25”, 1st ed, Circa?

Cassini25”, 1936Heuston Station, Prime2 MapGenie

Heuston Station, Prime2 SOE

Evolution

Institutionally Colonial surveyor

Military Mapping Organization

Civil Service National Mapping Organization (NMO)

State Body NMO

Will become a NMO w/in Tailte Éireann

Technologically Data collection

Techniques

Scale

Geometry

Skill

Technologies

Dissemination

Scope Colonial mapping

National mapping

Post Colonial mapping

OSi/OSNI/OSGB

EU / Inspire / NSDI

Global

Socio-technological transformation

Etymology

Relationality

Genealogy of a model

Genealogy of a data model

Models are also actors

Models shape how the world is viewed

the world of work

tools & techniques

the structure of an organization

how organizations interconnect with others

Models augment space

Models are socially constructed

by people

Ontologizing the City - From Old School National Cartographic Based Classification toward a Rules Based

Real-World Object Oriented National Database

Object of Study Data assemblage of OSi PRIME2 Examine how ‘real’ things are understood in

the new object oriented data model Assess if these change how space is

modelled and then acted upon

Time frame Jan. 2015-2018

Data Management and Ethics ERC Maynooth University SSHRC Tri-Council

Case Study Outputs Case study report Data assemblage Tracing the production of space Genealogy from class to object Academic publications

Funding Programmable City Project

P.I. Prof. Rob Kitchin

NIRSA, Maynooth University

European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award

ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY

Data Collection

Attend OSi & 1Spatial Road shows and public speaking events

One day coordinated field trip & group interviews at OSi Sligo(survey data capture unit)Examine the Prime & Prime2 flow linesReal-time survey and data update of a building

1.5 months as an embedded researcher, OSi in Phoenix Park One-on-one interviews with key actors (Transcribed audio recordings): Group interview

Document Collection

Collection of objects across time for Dublin

Acknowledgements

The research for this paper was funded by a

European Research Council Advanced Investigator

award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.

I would like to express my gratitude to all at

Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) for generously sharing

their knowledge and time.