Open Street Map Mapping Party
http://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/post/2014/07/24/openstreetmap-mapping-party/ Maps as: 1. technical instruments, used for visualisation 2. political tools - i.e. map of freedom and restriction, showing power 3. artwork 4. social products - expert vs collaborative mapping - authoritative vs. playful OSM:
- personal experience - local / tacit knowledge - memories - identities - belongings - emotions - ideologies - philosophies
OSM free software started 10 years ago by Steve Coast - social ingagement, mapping parties - humanitarian mapping - crisis mapping (mapping resources, mapping in case of disasters), OSM for accesibilities - fast updates: new shops, new countries, new city plans - MORE MAPPERS ARE NEEDED - knowledge making - observing, classifying, sorting things out, linking, socialising - mapping trees, animals, postcodes - so not copy data from google - copyright, data quality - importancy of mapping with local people - politicysing the current state of OSM: CCTV, benches, car parks, recycling, parks - WHAT'S MISSING? - MAPPING TIPS:
- photo mapping - reference based, matching photo and camera data
- HOW TO MAP:
- login to https://www.openstreetmap.org - different editors