Library of Congress - Neogeography and Geospatial data preservation - Presentation Transcript
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
GIS
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/
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
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