Library of Congress - Neogeography and Geospatial data preservation

Preserving the Old with the ‘Neo’ Andrew Turner FortiusOne - GeoCommons andrew@fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com

People live and interact with Place ﬂickr: qwertyuiop

Geography is a Common Pivot Point

“Americus” The role of maps Maps Reﬂect & Deﬁne Reality

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 downs Place elephants for want of towns. - Jonathan Swift

Ortelius Atlas

Exploration

Travel Guides

Driving Guides

Internet Maps

Locative Media

urban renewal participatory web 2005 - Google slips the map mobile computing GPS becomes ubiquitous

HousingMaps http://housingmaps.com

Slippy Maps & Virtual Globes

Ubiquitous, Inexpensive Locative Devices

neogeography ŏ 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

• Discover • Remember User-Driven • Connect • Share • Imagine • Enable

• Citizen • Historian User-Personas • Grandparent • Student • Planner • Representative

Archival Case Study: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ UK Domesday Project BBC_Domesday_Project

EverySquareMile

Explore EverySquareMile

User Interface EverySquareMile

Historical Context EverySquareMile

Building Blocks

GeoData Catalogs

Open GeoData http://geocommons.com

Open Government GeoData

Open International GeoData

<georss:point> + 45.256 -71.92 </georss:point> Open Linkable GeoData

Open Semantic Data?

Dynamic Feeds

GeoNames http://geonames.org

Google StreetView EveryScape Media

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 - 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? = +

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

Wiki for the World

How it works

Using the Data • Licensed - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 • RESTful API url = node?node=2000 <?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>

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

• Set of Tools OpenStreetMap is... • 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

! 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

• /places • /places/89 • /places/89.atom • /places/89.kml Resources

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

Formats HTML : RSS :: KML : GeoRSS Visualization : Syndication

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

OpenSearch-Geo http://maps.google.com/maps?near=43.3+-0.03 http://local.yahoo.com/?csz=43.3,-0.03 http://upcoming.org/search?lat=43.3&lon=-0.03 http://api.ﬂickr.com/services/photos_public.gne?bbox=-0.03,43.3, -0.04,43.4 http://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 Exif GeoRSS KML GPX Geocoding GeoStack Publish GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags Aggregate GML KML GeoRSS WFS GeoJSON Consume

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:point> + 45.256 -71.92 </georss:point> GeoRSS http://georss.org

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

cab4me Android Innovations

VoteReport http://twittervotereport.com

Crowd-Curation

...and iterate.

Create a participatory democracy.

InaugurationReport http://inaugurationreport.com

Lessons Learned

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/gregorio/40268917 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

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

Disparate Data Centers http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/vermininc

Unique Data Formats http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ajturner/3736209089

Difﬁcult to Use Tools http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/bitterlysweet/33358201

Lacking in Interfaces http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mstorz/455544132

Missing Metadata http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/jweise/2851083791

Not Scalable http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/kisocci/3675950734

Static Tightly Controlled & http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/201034654

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

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

Encourage People to Share Data

Geospatially Enable

Geographic Context Example Elements address event point station (physical) facility port street address geography position suburb (postal) house post terrain area household property territory bearing incident region topography bearings latitude reservation town city locale residence tract community locality river reach venue compass locate route vicinity country location scene village direction longitude site watershed distance neighborhood situation where district pinpoint space whereabouts domicile place spot ZIP 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?

Wiki Sharing of Data http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/ Hurricane_Ike_GIS_Resources

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 Upload KML Shapefile Visualize CSV (Excel) GeoRSS Documents Download Finder Maker Parse & Store Analyze Core

Spread the Data

Geospatial Federated Search Search

Geospatial Catalog and Server

Geospatial Federated Search Search

Encourage People to Explore

Data Sharing via Map Making

Visualization

Combine Multiple Datasets

Analysis

Temporal Displays

Daytime Crime

Nighttime Crime

Customized, Ofﬂine Rendering

Cloud Architecture create instance Cache S3 Downloads v1.4.3 Snapshot attach data Default Datasets Backup Backup Backup

Multiple Output

KML Spatialite Atom

Web Maps

KML Export

KML + 3D AreYouSafeDC

GeoPDF

Wind Energy vs. Gas Price GeoPDF

Maps as Social Objects

Maps as Social, Archivable Objects

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