[Geowanking] heh social cartography article

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Wed Jan 2 08:07:39 PST 2008


So, did anything interesting come out of the VGI conference? I declined
an invite to represent the AWMC mainly because we haven't yet discovered
anything about community and open data that OSM hasn't already known for
2.5 years.

Cheers,
Sean

Nick Black wrote:
> And three years later they crawl out of the cave.  Seriously though,
> its a sign of acceptance from the GIS world when established and
> respected people like Goodchild are noticing projects like OSM.
> 
> On Jan 1, 2008 12:49 AM, Daniel Dye <dye.daniel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The full-PDF for that 2nd link can be found at
>> http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/position/Goodchild_VGI2007.pdf
>> [ucsb.edu]
>>
>> -d
>>
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2007 2:36 PM, Anselm Hook <anselm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It feels like years since I've seen this kind of thing; I thought we
>>> were all past breathless articles about the possibility of social
>>> cartography?
>>>
>>> Amusing the cage of language that the author tries to capture the idea
>>> of "volunteered geographic information" within as if dealing with a
>>> container of radioactive waste...
>>>
>>>    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203111251.htm
>>>
>>>    http://www.springerlink.com/content/h013jk125081j628/
>>>
>>> Too bad this thesis about sharing is itself not shared.
>>>
>>>  - a
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