This was an invited presentation to the University of Alberta's Human Geography and Planning 100 class. As the title implies, I provided a brief overview of GeoWeb concepts, tools and provided an overview of the maps I found most interesting in the past couple of months.

1. GeoWeb Concepts,
Tools & Applications
Matthew Dance M.A.
@mattdance

2. THIS WILL BE ON THE EXAM

3. Overview
• Map Concepts
• Place
• GIS & PPGIS
• GeoWeb and other related ideas
• Tools (for making maps)
• The Big 2
• FOSS
• Applications (more maps)
• A bunch of pretty maps

4. CONCEPTS: PLACE

5. 1960‟s NeoGeography?
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, 1960

6. Mental Maps

7. Understanding of Place
There was a path in the woods there, and we call that
Moonies run because our teacher, Mr. Moonie, lived
right there. My friend played guitar and I played
guitar, and we used to take our amps, carry our amps
across back and forth across the river. At this point
here right in the middle of the bridge was we deemed
that as perfectly half way, so we would say, „Okay, I‟ll
meet you on the bridge‟. But yeah, I spent a lot of time
down there, in Gold Bar.
Chris

8. What is „place‟?
Place is defined as being comprised of three
dimensions (after Relph, 1976):
1. Observable activities that occur in relation
to the location;
2. The meanings that are created by a
person in that location, and;
3. The physical features that comprise the
location‟s concrete or tangible attributes.

9. Situating citizens:
Who is a „place‟ expert?
"Given a large enough beta-tester and codeveloper base, almost every problem will
be characterized quickly and the fix will be
obvious to someone."
Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 1999

10. Place-based Digital
Infrastructure

11. CONCEPTS: GIS ETC.

12. Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
“A geographic information system (GIS)
integrates hardware, software, and data for
capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all
forms of geographically referenced information.”
From: www.ESRI.com

13. PPGIS the early years…
A practice where GIS technology and methods
are used in support of public participation and
decision making in a number of domain
applications (Sieber, 2000).
• Top down & authority driven
• NOT collaborative
• Concerned with problems defined by
authorities
• Stakeholders are to be mined for data

14. GeoWeb
Location Based Data + Abstract Information =
Geographic World Wide Web AKA GeoWeb
Underpinned by:
Global Positioning Systems
Application Programming Interface
Volunteered Geographic
Information
Neogreography

15. MAPPING TOOLS

16. Open Data
data.edmonton.ca
data.gc.ca
geogratis.gc.ca
data.gov
Etc…

17. Environmental Systems
Research Institute

19. Google Maps

20. Google Earth

21. FREE & OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARE

22. OSM
A collaborative project to create a free
editable map of the world. Two major driving
forces behind the establishment and growth
of OSM have been restrictions on use or
availability of map information across much
of the world and the advent of inexpensive
portable satellite navigation devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

23. Haiti Crisis Map Edits

24. OSM iD Editor

27. http://metro.teczno.com/#edmonton

28. FOSS Geo Stack
Data Source (Open Data / OSM)
+
{Data Base (PostGIS)}
+
Visualization Tools (QGIS + TileMill)
+
Map Server (MapBox)
Or
PHP Tile Server & Leaflet

29. APPLICATIONS – MORE MAPS

30. @grambeta
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=za_RWqp4i4ic.k8h6FCSdeqZI
• Open Data
• Google Map Maker

31. http://planyourplace.ca/flooding_2013/

33. https://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#14/37.7793/-122.4337

34. http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

35. http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

36. http://labratrevenge.com/pdx/#12/45.4802/-122.6706

37. http://labratrevenge.com/pdx/#12/45.4802/-122.6706

41. Matthew Dance
@mattdance
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS?