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Crowdsourced and ‘volunteered’ geographic information are concepts that have become of great interest to cartographers and GIScience professionals. Maps that rely on user-contributed data, called wikimaps, are becoming more mainstream and represent a major player in the future of web cartography. The most cited example, OpenStreetMap, now has a community of over 1.6 million users. But many questions remain about how such maps should be designed: How should such data be symbolized? How can it be judged for quality? How should ethics be applied in light of privacy concerns? How small-d ‘democratic’ is the crowd really, and how are crowdsourced maps really being used? These are just a few. This talk presents my experience to date creating and using wikimaps, with a focus on preliminary conclusions and questions for further investigation.
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outline = [ideas,hypotheses,applications,findings,questions
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ideas = {
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hypotheses = { neogeographic:
“truly interact with the map (and with its data sources) and become, in the process, a map-maker also.” [Wood 2003],
indigenous: “facilitate the reappropriation of contested places.” [Corbett 2012],
volunteered: “six billion sensors.” [Goodchild 2007]
};
applications = [
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findings = { uses:
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contributors:“only a small fraction of participants take part in mapping seriously in VGI… the majority are educated and tech-savvy males.” [Budhathoki and Nevodic-Budic 2010]
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guidance:“aesthetics and intergenerational aspects are draws.” [Conaway, personal comm.]
};
questions = {
1: can design motivate contribution?
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2: can wikimaps be universalized?
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3: does vgi democratize?
};
