THEORETICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF TERRITORIES. THE CONCEPT OF SOCIETAL GEOSEMANTIC APPLIED TO POLITICAL AND STRATEGICAL TRENDS Diego Cerda Seguel Santiago, Junio, 2008

GEOSEMANTICS IN GEOSCIENCES: -GEOSEMANTICA (Natural Resources Canada)‏ Web interface that allows the transfer and unification of standarized geographical data, between databases. -SEMANTIC WEB (W3C, Berners Lee)‏ Ordening, storing and searching data by semantic sentences. Ontologies. -GEOSEMANTIC WEB “ Applying Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to Environmental Sciences and Engineering” Thesis from University of Maryland, 2005.

GEOSEMANTICS IN GEOSCIENCES:

-GEOSEMANTICA

(Natural Resources Canada)‏

Web interface that allows the transfer and unification of standarized geographical data, between databases.

-SEMANTIC WEB

(W3C, Berners Lee)‏

Ordening, storing and searching data by semantic sentences. Ontologies.

-GEOSEMANTIC WEB

“ Applying Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to Environmental Sciences and Engineering” Thesis from University of Maryland, 2005.

GOOGLE EARTH July 2005 350.000.000 Downloads until now

July 2005

350.000.000 Downloads until now

SOCIAL GEOSEMANTICS 2005 Creación del Dispositivo Geosemántico Global. Essay Geosemantics as an infrastructure directed by Google Inc, as Google Earth become masive. Operated from formal ontologies centred on social knowledge. Sociological skope in developing social geosemantics contents

Creación del Dispositivo Geosemántico Global. Essay

Geosemantics as an infrastructure directed by Google Inc, as Google Earth become masive.

Operated from formal ontologies centred on social knowledge.

Sociological skope in developing social geosemantics contents

SOCIAL GEOSEMANTICS 2008 Growing Massiveness acomplished Free participation in mapping Centrality on: - Kml building - Google Maps and its API (application programming interface). Integrating data into maps easily - Communities and Social Networking. Individuals and communities annotating and validating meaning to places - Geo-referencing social data - Semantics conflicts about places

Growing Massiveness acomplished

Free participation in mapping

Centrality on:

- Kml building

- Google Maps and its API (application programming interface). Integrating data into maps easily

- Communities and Social Networking. Individuals and communities annotating and validating meaning to places

- Geo-referencing social data

- Semantics conflicts about places

KML Place Path Area Photo overlay 3D Models Frontal photo

Place

Path

Area

Photo overlay

3D Models

Frontal photo

Some Communities that produce Social Geosemantic Content Panoramio.com and Flickr.com: Geo-reference photos by uploading and placing photos on the map Wikimapia.org Enciclopedy of places with more than 4 million entries until now. Tweeter.com

Some Communities that produce Social Geosemantic Content

Panoramio.com and Flickr.com:

Geo-reference photos by uploading and placing photos on the map

Wikimapia.org

Enciclopedy of places with more than 4 million entries until now.

Tweeter.com

POLITICAL AND STRATEGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL MAPPING Geography as a monopoly of geographical description is been interpellating. End users constructing, publishing and sharing them own maps and cartography. Kml file, or any digital geo-referenced place can be conflictive. Communities give validation to annotated places. Then any place can became meaningfull to someone inside. Massiveness in validating places trigger new perception of places as 'territory'.

Geography as a monopoly of geographical description is been interpellating. End users constructing, publishing and sharing them own maps and cartography.

Kml file, or any digital geo-referenced place can be conflictive. Communities give validation to annotated places. Then any place can became meaningfull to someone inside. Massiveness in validating places trigger new perception of places as 'territory'.

New territories, created no longer by official definitions, but by social participation New Territories that are lived by people on real soil. Great numbers (critic mass) comes to feed all this process ¿What if 30 million people wants to believe in a new land, with new names, routes and rules? Why not. Imagine an international boundaries conflict. ¿What if the communities become the judges?

New territories, created no longer by official definitions, but by social participation

New Territories that are lived by people on real soil.

Great numbers (critic mass) comes to feed all this process

¿What if 30 million people wants to believe in a new land, with new names, routes and rules? Why not.

Imagine an international boundaries conflict. ¿What if the communities become the judges?

Social Geosemantics describes this tendence of geo-referenced data to become critic content in the construction of Reality, by openly giving meanings to places from every agent who wants.

Social Geosemantics describes this tendence of geo-referenced data to become critic content in the construction of Reality, by openly giving meanings to places from every agent who wants.