Maptivism - Maps for Activism, Transparency and Engagement

Map$vism – Maps for Ac$vism, Transparency and Engagement Chris$an Kreutz

A map is worth a thousand words

A Map of the World An$-‐Spanking League Jonas Dagson hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/ 2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html

Why maps?

Orienta$on Reduce complexity Perspec$ve Context

History of using maps

John Snow's discovery that cholera is spread by contaminated water. 1854 hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-‐cholera-‐map-‐1.jpg

www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dollar_bin

www.eightmaps.com

Maps from everybody

Stockport Emo$on Map By Chris$an Nold (stockport.emo$onmap.net)

No Maps Land

hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nairobi_Kibera_01.JPG

Map Kibera -‐ OpenStreetMaps www.mapkibera.org

Map of Kibera -‐ Google Maps

Before the Earthquake Openstreetmap.org

Aaer the Earthquake Openstreetmap.org

Did you know that the best country covered from OpenStreetMap is Germany?

hFp://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4445981062/ Jeffrey Warren

grassrootsmapping.org

Crowdsourcing

We all can contribute to maps!

hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi

Open Source Intelligence

The Beer Belly of America

It is esEmated as much as 80% of data contains geo-‐referenced informaEon.

www.mapniﬁcent.de

We need more open data.

Map + AcEvism = MapEvism

www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html NYC Surveillance Camera Project

www.watradehub.com

Courtesy the Cedar Grove Ins$tute for Sustainable Communi$es

www.frankfurt-‐gestalten.de

* RecogniEon: Ooh that’s the place we are talking about! * A feeling of connecEon: It’s around the corner! * ConnecEng the dots (topics) on complex issues. * Engagement: This has to change! I want to help out.

And the future

Andrew Turner (hFp://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/drupal-‐and-‐the-‐geospa$al-‐web)

And all will be good?

Privacy Propaganda Discrimina$on AFen$on

Image: www.die.net/earth/ crisscrossed.net TwiWer: ckreutz

LINKS AND MAPS hFp://www.informa$onac$vism.org hFp://www.tac$caltech.org/mapsforadvocacy hFp://www.mundraub.org hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html hFp://www.eightmaps.com hFp://www.toiletradar.com hFp://floa$ngsheep.org hFp://stopstockouts.org/ushahidi hFp://www.worldmapper.org/ hFp://stockport.emo$onmap.net hFp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-‐children-‐map.html hFp://home.mindspring.com/~mcmoss/cedargrove hFp://www.datavisualiza$on.ch/showcases/traffic-‐on-‐googlemaps hFp://grassrootsmapping.org hFp://wheelmap.org hFp://www.mapnificent.de hFp://www.openstreetmap.org hFp://www.miller-‐mccune.com/culture-‐society/the-‐revolu$on-‐will-‐be-‐mapped-‐7130 hFp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak hFp://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/summary.html

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