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Transcript of Maptivism - Maps for Activism, Transparency and Engagement
Map$vism – Maps for Ac$vism, Transparency and Engagement
Chris$an Kreutz
A map is worth a thousand words
A Map of the World An$-‐Spanking League Jonas Dagson
hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html
Why maps?
Orienta$on Reduce complexity
Perspec$ve Context
History of using maps
John Snow's discovery that cholera is spread by contaminated water.
hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-‐cholera-‐map-‐1.jpg
1854
www.flickr.com/photos/dollar_bin
www.eightmaps.com
Maps from everybody
By Chris$an Nold (stockport.emo$onmap.net)
Stockport Emo$on Map
No Maps Land
hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nairobi_Kibera_01.JPG
www.mapkibera.org
Map Kibera -‐ OpenStreetMaps
Map of Kibera -‐ Google Maps
Openstreetmap.org
Before the Earthquake
Openstreetmap.org
Aaer the Earthquake
Did you know that the best country covered from OpenStreetMap is Germany?
hFp://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4445981062/ Jeffrey Warren
grassrootsmapping.org
Crowdsourcing
We all can contribute to maps!
hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi
Open Source Intelligence
The Beer Belly of America
It is esEmated as much as 80% of data contains geo-‐referenced informaEon.
www.mapnificent.de
We need more open data.
Map + AcEvism = MapEvism
www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html
NYC Surveillance Camera Project
www.watradehub.com
Courtesy the Cedar Grove Ins$tute for Sustainable Communi$es
www.frankfurt-‐gestalten.de
* RecogniEon: Ooh that’s the place we are talking about!
* A feeling of connecEon: It’s around the corner!
* ConnecEng the dots (topics) on complex issues.
* Engagement: This has to change! I want to help out.
And the future
Andrew Turner (hFp://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/drupal-‐and-‐the-‐geospa$al-‐web)
And all will be good?
Privacy Propaganda
Discrimina$on AFen$on
crisscrossed.net
TwiWer: ckreutz
Image: www.die.net/earth/
LINKS AND MAPS
hFp://www.informa$onac$vism.org hFp://www.tac$caltech.org/mapsforadvocacy hFp://www.mundraub.org hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html hFp://www.eightmaps.com hFp://www.toiletradar.com hFp://floa$ngsheep.org hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi hFp://www.worldmapper.org/ hFp://stockport.emo$onmap.net hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html hFp://home.mindspring.com/~mcmoss/cedargrove hFp://www.datavisualiza$on.ch/showcases/traffic-‐on-‐googlemaps hFp://grassrootsmapping.org hFp://wheelmap.org hFp://www.mapnificent.de hFp://www.openstreetmap.org hFp://www.miller-‐mccune.com/culture-‐society/the-‐revolu$on-‐will-‐be-‐mapped-‐7130 hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak hFp://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html
