what is neogeography?

anselm@hook.org (415) 215 4856 http://hook.org http://meedan.net march 7th 2008

what does google say?

Andrew Turner (Mapufacture) has some thoughts:

http://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/gisday2007-neogeography-and-gis

”geographical techniques and tools used for personal activities or for utilization by a non-expert group of users; not formal or analytical”

can buzzwords capture it?

openstreetmaps, openlayers, kml, georss, microformats, ”community versus committee”, exploration, explanation, digitization, democratization, web 2.0, open data, creative commons, citizen mapping, renaissance, social, grassroots, gis, gps, ”wiki as a universal solvent”, socialight, platial, plazes, flickr, google mymaps, world66, fireeagle, mapufacture, osgeo, geocodr???

is openstreetmaps it?

free labour free source code open standards open data new standards,

schemas and protocols

sparked by ordance survey

”wiki like”

is it merely an opposition?

to the role of being just a consumer? to boundary makers that cut apart ecosystems,

economies and communities? to industrial cartography? to manufacturing perception? to licensing issues?

the industry struggles

still evolving language such as ”volunteered geographic information”

industry extends to meet new needs (tiling, wfs-t...)

amateurs do adopt standards eventually

it may be a language?

a kind of l33t speak a way to socialize ownership over terms with freedom to steal & freedom to rewrite just people talking like social practice art

mapping the unmapped

volatile and transient censured; grafitti subjective; histories illegal; criticism copyrighted; britain ephemeral; first love

a response to obstacles?

scaling to allow many participants signalling other people in real time noise and spam rights and trust

the scaling problem

how do you let a million people contribute in real time to a map?

velocity, quality, cost-savings -> pick 2 ”good enough” is the enemy of best see wikipedia, linux, craigslist, delicious... we see distributed, non-centralized,

aggregation centric strategies

the signalling problem

the voice we had when we lived in small towns being able to stick a fistful of dollars in the air emerging real-time brokerages; fireeagle etc towards craigslist 2.0 just in time negotiation; finding that hotel room landing at the airport in that strange new place

the noise problem

my god it's full of spam (hint; knowing where starbucks is - this is spam) existing social networks can help filter previously seen interests can help filter apprehending the world from somebody elses

point of view

the rights problem

unabdicate ownership over representation

reclaim responsibility to map ourselves

shows how important creative commons licensing will become

”salmon nation” is a good example

the trust problem

when it affects your life – do you trust it?

who made the maps? do you trust them?

Secrets and reciprocal disclosure...

towards future maps

we may all begin to map every day all the time maps become a language between peers maps become more like video games maps help placemaking not just placemarking maps help us see how to reach a 'middle way'

between forest preserve and urban jungle professionals utilize ”eyeballs on the ground”

more.

my hope and interest

maps become a way for all of us to collect ground truth about our ecosystems; to participate and to care more

maps may even become predictive modelling tools to help make argument

maps become an equalizer between parties of vastly different scales when talking about land use policy

we may understand and respect each others and our planets needs better

Wherecamp 2008!

Google Campus May 17th 2008 Free! All weekend – camp over if you wish Geek out, hack, socialize in an extended setting

a few fun links

http://del.icio.us/tag/geo http://ecotrust.org http://urbanscout.org http://urbanedibles.org/ http://cityrepair.org http://www.slashfood.com/tag/LocalFood/ http://deliciouscorpse.com

reaching me

anselm@hook.org (415) 215 4856 http://hook.org/whereisanselm? http://meedan.net http://makerlab.org This presentation will appear on hook.org