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This is a talk I gave at the Fall 2009 VCGI Roundtable Meeting, Fairlee, VT exploring the intersection of open-source GIS options and neogeography.
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Open-Source GIS: A Balancing Act Between a Wampeter and Saltpeter
John G. Van Hoesen, Green Mountain College
Unfolding the Map: Making Geospatial Information Accessible to the Public
Background 1.0
Wampeter or Saltpeter?
• Vonnegut (1974) “Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons”
• Egenhofer and Mark (1995) “Naïve Geography”
• DiBiase (2007) “Is GIS a Wampeter?”
• Goodchild (2007) “Volunteered Geographic Information”
• Turner (2006) “Intro to Neogeography”
• Sui (2008) “The Wikification of GIS…”
(Sui, 2005)
Background 2.0
“Central control of computer databases, such as GIS, tend to increase the power to the bureaucrats, administrators, technical experts and computer
literate groups who use them at the expense of those who lack the expertise to access to these systems”
Arnoff (1989)
“Naïve geography is a necessary underpinning for the design of GISs that can be used without major training by new user communities
such as average citizens, to solve day-to-day tasks”
Egenhofer and Mark (1995)
“Instead of asking how to find the need or data people want, instead ask how to allow the public needs to inform and drive data collection and access”
Huang and Chuang (2005)
Wampeter or Saltpeter?
Background 3.0
“Neogeography is about people using and creating their own maps, on their own terms and by combining elements of an existing toolset. Neogeography is
about sharing location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying understanding through knowledge of place”
Turner (2006)
“This new phase of development is the wikification of GIS, which is driven by the massive and voluntary contribution among both amateur and experts using
Web 2.0 technology”
Sui (2008)
“Another source of interest in GIS becoming a tool of participatory democracy has been the need to reinvingorate traditional models of citizen involvement in
making decisions about the use of public , natural resources”
Jankowski (2009)
Wampeter or Saltpeter?
Web TechnologyIntegrated
CommunityMap Participation
Collaboration
Visualization
Bloggers&
Wikis
Web/OnlineCiGIS,
PPGIS, PGIS
Google Earth, Yahoo
Map, etc
OnlineCommunityFramework
(OCF)
ParticipatoryResearch
Naïve Geography
Three Basic Elements
Web/Online
Phenomenalize
Functionalize
Theorize
Three Basic Functions
Three Basic Phenomena
Three Basic Theories
(Chuang and Huang, 2005)
Open Source Options?
N
The Playing Field 1.0
• MapWindows • QuantumGIS• Capaware• TerraView• SAGA GIS• Jump GIS• SavGIS• GRASS • OSSIM• gvSIG• ILWIS• uDIG• fGIS
?
Kristina Lerman; http://www.isi.edu/~lerman
The Playing Field 2.0
Web 2.0 ApplicationsGoogle Earth/Maps (http://thematicmapping.org)
WikiMapia – (www.wikimapia.org) Platial Maps – (http://platial.com)
Ning – (www.ning.com) The GMapCreatorhttp://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/software/gmapcreator.asp
OpenStreetMap – (www.openstreetmap.org)
MetaCarta Labs – (http://labs.metacarta.com)
MapRectifier – (http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier)
Flickr / Picasa
BatchGeocode – (www.batchgeocode.com)
GeoNames – (www.geonames.org) RSS to GeoRSS Converter
GeoRSS Tagging
GeoParsing – (http://gutenkarte.org)
GeoWeb Options?
Everyone Assembling the Web:The Difficulty Curve of DIY
Platforms, Tools, and Pieces QUANTITY OF CREATORS
• Web desktops• Badges• Blogs• Wikis• Feeds• Enterprise 2.0
• Simple mashups• Situational Apps• Widgets• WOA
Var
iety
an
d O
utp
ut
Hundreds of Millions
• Web apps• Enterprise mashups• Composite apps• Office 2.0• SOA
Tens of Millions
Millions
Complexity and Sophistication
(Anyone) (Expert Users) (Developers)
Hinchcliffe (2007)
The Playing Field 3.0
• Desktop GIS vs. GeoWeb?
• WMS vs. Onsite Storage?
• Transport & Delivery?
• Learning Curve?
Decision Making Process
• VCGI WMS Server http://maps.vcgi.org:8080/wmsconnector/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?service=WMS&servicename=VGIS_BASEMAP&version=1.1.0&request=getcapabilities
• You could also use VCGI Interactive Viewer
Unfolding The GeoWeb
Future of Mapping
• Web 3.0 Intuitive Interfaces
• Robust Browser Applications
• Embedded PGIS
• Online Storage
GeoWeb Wampeter?
ReferencesArnoff, S. 1989. Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective. Ottawa, Canada: WDL Publications, 294p.
Huang, A.W-C. and Chuang, T-R., 2005, Commonsense Geography meets Web Technology: Online Community Mapping. Open GIS & Web GIS 2005 Conference Procedding, pp89-98.
DiBiase, D.W., 2007, Is GIS a Wampter? Transactions in GIS, 11(1): 1-8.
Egenhofer, M.J. and Mark, D.M., 1995, Naïve geography, in, Frank, A.U. and Kuhn, W. (eds), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS. Lecture notes in computer sciences, Springer-Verlag, 988: 1-115.
Goodchild, M.F., 2007, Citizens as sensors: The world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69(4), 211-221.
Hinchcliffe, D., (2007), Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 2: Mass customization, mashups, and recombinant Web apps. ZDNET: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=81
Jankowski, P., 2009, Towards particpatory geographic information systems for community-based environmental decision making. Journal of Environmental Mangement, 90: 1966-1971.
Sui, D., 2008, The wikification of GIS and its consequences: Or Angelina Jolie’s new tatto and the future of GIS. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 32: 1-5.
Turner, A., 2006, Introduction to neogeography. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media Short Cuts, 54p.
Vonnegut, K Jr., 1974, Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons (Opinions). New York, Dell Publishing.