Preserving the Old with the ‘Neo’

Andrew TurnerFortiusOne - GeoCommons

andrew@fortiusone.comhttp://highearthorbit.com

People live and interact with Place

flickr: qwertyuiop

Geography is a Common Pivot Point

The role of mapsMaps Reflect & Define Reality“Americus”

What is Neogeography?

StoryMapping

Emphemeral Maps http://maps.google.com

Meaning

Navigation

Compass

1492 - Columbus sails the ocean blue

Cartographic Renaissance

So geographers, in Afric maps,With savage pictures fill their gaps,And o’er unhabitable downsPlace elephants for want of towns.

- Jonathan Swift

Ortelius Atlas

Exploration

Travel Guides

Driving Guides

GIS

Internet Maps

Locative Media

2005 - Google slips the map

GPS becomes ubiquitous

mobile computing

urban renewalparticipatory web

HousingMaps http://housingmaps.com

Slippy Maps &

Virtual Globes

Ubiquitous, Inexpensive

Locative Devices

neogeography |nē'ō-jē-ŏg'rə-fē|

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

It’s about the user

Is this the user?

This is a user

http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/

He should be a user

http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/35413354/

She’s your next user

User-Driven

• Discover• Remember• Connect• Share• Imagine• Enable

User-Personas

• Citizen• Historian• Grandparent• Student• Planner• Representative

Archival Case Study: UK Domesday Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project

EverySquareMile

Explore EverySquareMile

User Interface EverySquareMile

Historical Context EverySquareMile

Building Blocks

Data

GeoData Catalogs

Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

Open Government GeoData

Open Government GeoData

Open International GeoData

Open Linkable GeoData

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Open Semantic Data?

Dynamic Feeds

GeoNames http://geonames.org

GeoNames http://geonames.org

Media

Media

Google StreetView EveryScape

Local Videos

Deep Tagged Videos

GeoTagged Media http://soundseeker.org

Geotagging Media

GPS Units

• My Recommendation:

Garmin eTrex Legend HCx

GPS Babel

http://www.gpsbabel.org

Camera

• Captures Image

• and TimeStamp

• How to Geotag photographs?

GPicSync

http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

HoudahGeo

http://www.houdah.com

HoudahGeo - Photos

HoudahGeo - Tracks

HoudahGeo - KML

HoudahGeo - KML

HoudahGeo - Flickr

http://www.flickr.com

Flickr Geotag

Flickr Search: Pottery in Kenya

Flickr Search: Culture in Kenya

Flickr Export

Google Picasa + Panoramio

Google MyMaps

Flickr Photos

Implicit GeoData http://geocodr.net

Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Flickr Commons http://www.flickr.com/commons

Crowd-Sourced Filtering

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

Mapping Data is not Free

Full of Mistakes

Poor Coverage

Changing World

What is OpenStreetMap?

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OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

Wiki for the World

How it works

Using the Data• Licensed - Creative Commons

Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

• RESTful API

<?xml version="1.0"?><osm version="0.3" generator="OpenStreetMap server"><node lon='-0.148588713362387' id='40' lat='51.5278975364617'> <tag k="hum" v="cheese"/></node></osm>

url = node?node=2000

Making Maps

OSMarender Mapnik

OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

GPSies http://gpsies.com/

OpenCycleMap http://opencyclemap.org

Shenzen Maps

StumbleSafely http://www.outsideindc.com/stumblesafely

Flickr OSM http://www.flickr.com/map?&fLat=39.9227&fLon=116.4694&zl=6

OpenStreetMap is...• Set of Tools• Open, Linked Database• Community• Principles• Proven Use Case

OpenAerialMap http://openaerialmap.org

BurningManEarth http://earth.burningman.org

MapWarper http://warper.geothings.net

NYPL http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital

Upload a Scanned Map

Ground Control Points

Warped Image

Exportable

Oakland Historic Maps http://www.teczno.com/old-oakland/

Maps for Farmers http://serveyourcountryfood.com

Data Formats

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Standards Organizations http://opengeospatial.org

Standards Organizations http://fgdc.gov

Standards Organizations http://www.w3.org/

Standards Organizations http://iso.org

Standards Organizations http://openwebfoundation.org

Semantic Web

GeoWeb

A RESTful Web

Resources

• /places

• /places/89

• /places/89.atom

• /places/89.kml

Web Aligned http://highearthorbit.com/a-proposal-georss-kml

Formats

Visualization : Syndication

HTML : RSS KML : GeoRSS::

OpenSearch

http://search.org?q={searchTerm}&lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}

-Geo

OpenSearch-Geohttp://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03

http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03

http://api.flickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4http://mapufacture.com/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03

lat={geo:lat}&lon={geo:lon}&radius={geo:radius}

bbox={geo:box}

where={geo:locationString}

area={geo:polygon}

Create

Publish

Aggregate

Consume

Exif GeoRSS KML GeocodingGPX

GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags

GML KML GeoRSS GeoJSONWFS

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The power and potential of de-facto standards.

GoogleEarth

Google Layers

KML

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html

OGC KML 2.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/

GeoRSS http://georss.org

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92

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Spatialite

CSV - Comma Separated Value

"name","holepar","holeyardage","holenumber","latitude","longitude""Simple placemark","4.0","234.0","1.0","-121.082203542568","37.4222899014025""Simple placemark 2","3.0","100.0","2.0","-121.082203542568","37.4222899014025"

"name","holepar","holeyardage","holenumber","address""Simple placemark","4.0","234.0","1.0","1517 N. Main St., Royal Oak, MI""Simple placemark 2","3.0","100.0","2.0","2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA"

GeoPDF

Mobile

Mobline Placemarking

Android Innovations

cab4me

VoteReport http://twittervotereport.com

Crowd-Curation

...and iterate.

Create a participatory democracy.

InaugurationReport http://inaugurationreport.com

Lessons Learned

Hurricanes Katrinaand Rita

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorio/40268917

Damage Awareness Hurricane Katrina

Crisis Reporting

Hurricane Katrina

Save our Schools

School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish

Regional-Modernism

School Facilities Master Plan

Geolocated Plans Save our Schools

Historic Photographs Save our Schools

Taylor’s 1924 Map

Taylor’s Map - Rectified

Scientifically Minded

Huey P. Long Ave

Taylor’s 1924 Map of New Orleans

maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools

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Share your Data http://finder.geocommons.com

Build on Data http://maker.geocommons.com

Encourage People to Share Data

Geospatially Enable

Geographic Context Example Elementsaddress (physical)address (postal)areabearingbearingscitycommunitycompasscountrydirectiondistancedistrictdomicile

eventfacilitygeographyhousehouseholdincidentlatitudelocalelocalitylocatelocationlongitudeneighborhoodpinpointplace

pointportpositionpostpropertyregionreservationresidenceriver reachroutescenesitesituationspacespot

stationstreetsuburbterrainterritorytopographytowntractvenuevicinityvillagewatershedwherewhereaboutsZIP code

GeoReferencing: Geocoding

GeoReferencing: Spatial Join

GeoReferencing Process

Data Attribute Coercion

Geographic Attribute Identification

Geospatial Attribute Identification

Geospatial Taxonomy Identification

Verification

How to encourage providing metadata?

http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources

Wiki Sharing of Data

Traditional Dialog Boxes

Simple Forms

Explorable

Data Sharing

Data Attributes

Data Description with Metadata Standards

• FGDC• ISO 19115• Microformats• Meta• Hyperlinks

What about searching through metadata?

Complicated Interfaces

Folksonomy and Search

Make Sharing the Default

Data Sharing with Common, Open Standards

• KML• Shapefile• CSV• Atom• JSON

• WFS• Spatialite

Dynamic Data

Datasets as Databases

MakerFinder

Core

KML

Shapefile

CSV (Excel)

GeoRSS

Documents

Upload

Parse & Store Analyze

Download

Visualize

Spread the Data

Geospatial Federated Search Search

Geospatial Catalog and Server

Geospatial Federated Search Search

Encourage People to Explore

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Data Sharing via Map Making

Visualization

Combine Multiple Datasets

Analysis

Temporal Displays

Daytime Crime

Nighttime Crime

Customized, Offline Rendering

Cloud Architecture

attach data

createinstance

Default

Datasets

v1.4.3

Backup BackupBackup

Snapshot

Cache Downloads

S3

Multiple Output

KML AtomSpatialite

Web Maps

KML Export

KML + 3D AreYouSafeDC

GeoPDF

GeoPDF

Wind Energy vs. Gas Price

Maps as Social Objects

Maps as Social, Archivable Objects

Asante Sana

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