Basemapping The Globe
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Presented at Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Feb 25th, 2011 UWM Discusses how Google, Inc. and Chinese law dictate new virtual landscapes through restriction of mapping mediums and references.
Basemapping The Globe
- 1. Basemapping the Globe Generating Flexible National Borders and Virtual LandscapesBy Mark Caldwell, UWM Sociology and GIS
- 2. Overview: Seeing is BelievingMaps in Motion: Production and MediumImagined CommunitiesSpatial CompressionFree and Open: Google, Inc.Implications of Virtual State Control: China
- 3. Maps in Motion: ProductionPast 50 years has changed mapping schemesInternet 2.0 has created virtual geographic production Web 2.0 environment allows for user-derived contentBasemaps are newest geographic medium
- 4. Maps in Motion: MediumMarshall McLuhans medium as the messageMap projections fix information into a set spatial areaBasemaps are created by private enterprises through coding process
- 5. Imagined Communities and Spatial Compression Created by shared social and cultural beliefsRise of the nation-state to define spatial bordersBasemaps renew sensory perception of these bordersUsers demand instant information with no formal training
- 6. Google, Inc: Free and Open MappingGoogle, Inc. facilitates the production and storage of geographic information for other countriesH.R. 1512 commends Google for advocating uncensored and open internet for all usersUnited States hub for open source mash-ups
- 7. China: State Control LimitationsIn 2010, Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping created law which prevents production of map-mashups by Chinese Citizens
- 8. Need to ensure that mapping information is accurate and does not display sensitive information
- 9. States secret laws mandate 7 to 10 year jail sentence for disclosure of confidential informationNation-state defines virtual map space through policies and lawsCorporation define virtual map medium through control of coding and programming
- 10. So which is worse? A nation-state that restricts through direct law; or a national corporation that restricts by limiting the medium itself.Thank you for Visualizing !Mark Caldwell, UWM Sociology and GISmac4@uwm.eduwww.gis.sarup.uwm.edu/MAC4