Comments on: Networked mapping http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:06:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: OpenGeoData » Blog Archive » This week on the OpenStreetMap list… http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-115444 OpenGeoData » Blog Archive » This week on the OpenStreetMap list… Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:44:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-115444 [...] There has been lots of talk about the new phenomena of “Mapping Parties” that is sweeping through the OSM community. Last weekend OSM people were mapping Bath, and there are planned events comming up in Reading, Brighton, Rutland and the New Forest. If you live in the North and feel left out, then don’t. Chorley doesn’t have a map, and it seems that OSM are the perfect people to make them one. [...] [...] There has been lots of talk about the new phenomena of “Mapping Parties” that is sweeping through the OSM community. Last weekend OSM people were mapping Bath, and there are planned events comming up in Reading, Brighton, Rutland and the New Forest. If you live in the North and feel left out, then don’t. Chorley doesn’t have a map, and it seems that OSM are the perfect people to make them one. [...]

]]> By: L.L. Barkat http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-113054 L.L. Barkat Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:18:46 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-113054 Of course, the satellite maps have interesting features... like showing a refrigerator in my daughter's best friend's back yard. Obviously, the refrigerator was from pre-best-friend-historic times. Of course, the satellite maps have interesting features… like showing a refrigerator in my daughter’s best friend’s back yard.

Obviously, the refrigerator was from pre-best-friend-historic times.

]]> By: SteveC http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112911 SteveC Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:44:27 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112911 I should have linked to the FAQ entry too: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Faq#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F I should have linked to the FAQ entry too:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Faq#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F

]]> By: SteveC http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112908 SteveC Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:43:07 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112908 This would all be wonderful if the terms of use of google maps gave you the right to derive vector and point data and make this available, or if you licensed Ordnance Survey Data. All you are doing is creating a derived work by using google sub licensed imagery and map data. Collaborative GPS mapping exists, see www.openstreetmap.org This would all be wonderful if the terms of use of google maps gave you the right to derive vector and point data and make this available, or if you licensed Ordnance Survey Data. All you are doing is creating a derived work by using google sub licensed imagery and map data.

Collaborative GPS mapping exists, see http://www.openstreetmap.org

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112798 Ewan McIntosh Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:08:09 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112798 Some more ideas from a teacher on how we could get the kids to do it all: geotagged photos for a virtual visual tour placed on Google Maps, overlays of people's favourite walks, using WorldMapper to give a comparison of Chorley vs the rest of the world... More over on my own post (I got carried away ;-) Some more ideas from a teacher on how we could get the kids to do it all: geotagged photos for a virtual visual tour placed on Google Maps, overlays of people’s favourite walks, using WorldMapper to give a comparison of Chorley vs the rest of the world… More over on my own post (I got carried away ;-)

]]> By: Jason Wilson http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112604 Jason Wilson Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:26:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112604 This DIY approach to (self-)representation is definitely what it's all about! The knowledge that already exists inside a community is basically more timely, and usually more relevant than the data that would be collected by an external agency via a 'mandated order'. This is exactly why there are so many new online map apps, it's also fun :) Your mention of that fabled 1% is pretty much right on the nose too. Here is an example of Piotr, a guy who is single handedly mapping his entire French village (Roscoff): <a href="http://platial.com/piotr" rel="nofollow">Piotr</a>. Organizing all this data is also becoming crucial, allowing people to see (and not see) certain veins of data in the groupings that make sense to them. You could have a million overlapping items, but how do you dig through it? This DIY approach to (self-)representation is definitely what it’s all about! The knowledge that already exists inside a community is basically more timely, and usually more relevant than the data that would be collected by an external agency via a ‘mandated order’. This is exactly why there are so many new online map apps, it’s also fun :)

Your mention of that fabled 1% is pretty much right on the nose too. Here is an example of Piotr, a guy who is single handedly mapping his entire French village (Roscoff): Piotr.

Organizing all this data is also becoming crucial, allowing people to see (and not see) certain veins of data in the groupings that make sense to them. You could have a million overlapping items, but how do you dig through it?

]]> By: ben http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112536 ben Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:35:08 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112536 I second the recommendation of wikimapia. Pretty neat, and seems less commercialized than Platial. I second the recommendation of wikimapia.

Pretty neat, and seems less commercialized than Platial.

]]> By: Richard Webb http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112495 Richard Webb Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:49:10 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112495 Get some photos and add your own to the National Grid, through http://www.geograph.co.uk Get some photos and add your own to the National Grid, through
http://www.geograph.co.uk

]]> By: Karl http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112427 Karl Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:41:35 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112427 There is a whole slew of Google Map mashups at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ There is a whole slew of Google Map mashups at http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Rob http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112405 Rob Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:39:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112405 And, let's not forget <a href="http://www.wikimapia.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikimapia</a>, which is already doing something of the sort. And, let’s not forget Wikimapia, which is already doing something of the sort.

]]> By: Wise One http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112368 Wise One Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:24:06 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112368 I remember when cartography was a highly skilled profession. It is now "vanilla ice cream" to take an idea from THE WORLD IS FLAT. No pun but a flat world does not need cartographers. I remember when cartography was a highly skilled profession. It is now “vanilla ice cream” to take an idea from THE WORLD IS FLAT.

No pun but a flat world does not need cartographers.

]]> By: Martin http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112360 Martin Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:59:38 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112360 Given <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/170806/northumbria_police_omitted_5083_incidents_from_media_voice_bank" rel="nofollow">British police forces' attitudes Freedom of Information</a>, it's probably unlikely anything like Chicago Crime will be possible here any time soon. But the site you imagine could be integrated with lots of other geo-coded data, like what's already available on sites like <a href="http://www.upmystreet.com/l/Chorley-4569.html" rel="nofollow">UpMyStreet.com</a> Given British police forces’ attitudes Freedom of Information, it’s probably unlikely anything like Chicago Crime will be possible here any time soon. But the site you imagine could be integrated with lots of other geo-coded data, like what’s already available on sites like UpMyStreet.com

]]> By: Karl http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112341 Karl Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:12:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/08/17/networked-mapping/#comment-112341 Dan Gillmor and I once discussed this very same idea. It's a terrific concept that local governments should seriously consider. There are whole swaths of information services they can be providing with such mashups. Then again, so could newspapers, with their deep store houses of data, sitting in un-surfaced databases. Props to ChicagoCrimes.org Dan Gillmor and I once discussed this very same idea. It’s a terrific concept that local governments should seriously consider. There are whole swaths of information services they can be providing with such mashups. Then again, so could newspapers, with their deep store houses of data, sitting in un-surfaced databases.

Props to ChicagoCrimes.org

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