Discussion of the advent of Neogeography and how GIS and Neogeography are different but can also work together. Given at University of Kansas as part of GISDay 2007

1. Neogeography
and
GIS
Andrew Turner

2. A Brief History
of Cartography *
*IANAH

3. Storytelling

4. Ephemeral Maps

6. Navigation

7. Navigation
http://flickr.com/photos/iguanajo/53322482/

8. 1492 - Columbus sails
the ocean blue

9. Cartographic Renaissance

10. So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o’er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
- Jonathan Swift

11. Ortelius’ Atlas

12. Exploration

13. Maps as Travel Guides

14. Visualization

15. GIS

16. Internet

17. Slippy Maps
&
Spinny Globes

18. OpenStreetMap

20. Recap
• Explanation
• Exploration
• Navigation
• Urbanization
• Digitization
• Democratization

21. “GIS is dead.”
Tim Bowden
Mapforge Geospatial
@ FOSS4G 2007

22. Association for
Geographic
Information

23. http://flickr.com/photos/diskostu/115439135/

24. Those who fail to learn
history...

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

26. Explanation

27. Desire Lines

28. EverySquareMile

29. EverySquareMile

30. World Digital Library

31. World Digital Library

32. GeoGeneology
Family Tree Maker
MemoryMiner

33. Exploration

34. Navigation

35. Street Maps

36. Bike Maps

37. Visualization
EveryScape
Google StreetView

38. Democratization

39. Colloquial Geography
was just lagging

40. A Simile: Economics

42. Personal Budgets

43. MacroEconomics

44. National Economy
2008
Budgets
2007
Budgets

45. NeoEconomics?

46. But what is
neogeography?

47. Neogeography isn’t...
• open-standards
• open-source
• analysis
• GIS
... but it can use these

48. towards a definition

49. neoclassicism
As an aesthetic and artistic style this
combining
originated in Rome in the mid 18th
century, combining a reaction against the
a reaction against...
late baroque and rococo with a new
interest in antiquity. In music, the term
refers to a return by composers of the
...with a new interest
early 20th century to the forms and styles
of the 17th and 18th centuries, as a
in antiquity
reaction against 19th-century
romanticism.

50. colloquial
used in ordinary or familiar
conversation; not formal or
literary.

51. ŏ
neogeography
geographical techniques and tools used
for personal activities or for utilization by
a non-expert group of users; not formal
or analytical.

52. It’s about the user

53. Is this the user?

54. This is a user
http://flickr.com/photos/ayula/55908651/

55. He should be a user
http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/35413354/

56. She’s your next user

57. How can we
work together?

59. Standards
Committee Comunity
•GeoRSS
•WMS
•GeoJSON
•WFS
•Microformats
•WCS
•Atom
•GML
•Dublic Core Other
•KML
•HTML

60. Disaster Response
http://flickr.com/photos/fielddan/1752897034/

61. MODIS

62. Google MyMaps

63. Twitter

65. http://hypercube.telascience.org/fire/

66. Way Forward
• Web Services
• Open Standards
• Accessible Software
• User Participation
• Low-Barriers to Entry
• Play in the GeoStack

67. http://flickr.com/photos/spine/146779695/