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Whither the Wikimap?

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Crowdsourced and ‘volunteered’ geographic information are concepts that have become of great interest to cartographers and GIScience professionals. Maps that rely on user-contributed data, called wikimaps, are becoming more mainstream and represent a major player in the future of web cartography. The most cited example, OpenStreetMap, now has a community of over 1.6 million users. But many questions remain about how such maps should be designed: How should such data be symbolized? How can it be judged for quality? How should ethics be applied in light of privacy concerns? How small-d ‘democratic’ is the crowd really, and how are crowdsourced maps really being used? These are just a few. This talk presents my experience to date creating and using wikimaps, with a focus on preliminary conclusions and questions for further investigation.

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Whither
the Wikimap?;
by carl sack,
cmsack@wisc.edu,
@northlandiguana;

outline = [
ideas,
hypotheses,
applications,
findings,
questions
];

ideas = {
,

hypotheses = {
neogeographic:
“truly interact
with the map (and
with its data
sources) and
become, in the
process, a map-maker
also.”
[Wood 2003],

indigenous:
“facilitate the
reappropriation
of contested
places.”
[Corbett 2012],

volunteered:
“six billion
sensors.”
[Goodchild 2007]
};

applications = [
,

findings = { uses:
,

$contributors: “only a small fraction of participants take part in mapping seriously in VGI… the majority are educated and tech-savvy males.” [Budhathoki and Nevodic-Budic 2010] ,$

guidance:
“aesthetics and
intergenerational aspects
are draws.”
[Conaway, personal comm.]
};

questions = {
1: can design
motivate
contribution?
,

2: can wikimaps be
universalized?
,

3: does vgi
democratize?
};

thank you.
northlandia.wordpress.com
cmsack@wisc.edu

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Whither the Wikimap?

1. Whither the Wikimap?; by carl sack, cmsack@wisc.edu, @northlandiguana;

2. outline = [ ideas, hypotheses, applications, findings, questions ];

6. hypotheses = { neogeographic: “truly interact with the map (and with its data sources) and become, in the process, a map-maker also.” [Wood 2003],

7. indigenous: “facilitate the reappropriation of contested places.” [Corbett 2012],

8. volunteered: “six billion sensors.” [Goodchild 2007] };

9. applications = [ ,

11. findings = { uses: ,

12. contributors: “only a small fraction of participants take part in mapping seriously in VGI… the majority are educated and tech-savvy males.” [Budhathoki and Nevodic-Budic 2010] ,

13. guidance: “aesthetics and intergenerational aspects are draws.” [Conaway, personal comm.] };

14. questions = { 1: can design motivate contribution? ,

15. 2: can wikimaps be universalized? ,

16. 3: does vgi democratize? };

17. thank you. northlandia.wordpress.com cmsack@wisc.edu

Editor's Notes

#13: “Only about 30% registered users have ever contributed geographic information. Among those contributors, about 40% have contributed only once since they joined the project… Further, we find that mappers are predominantly from Europe and North America, indicating a long way for VGI to be a universal source of GI.” [Budhathoki and Nevodic-Budic 2010, 1]. “87% of edits to heavily-edited objects are performed by 11% of the total contributors.” [Mooney and Corcoran 2012]
#14: Some expert guidance may be necessary to enable traditionally underrepresented groups to participate.
#15: Is part of the solution superficial interface design, UI controls, etc? Would better symbolization attract more contributions? What about user rating systems and connections to social media?
#16: Can we distribute wikimap VGI contributions to non-white, non-male, non-First World people? Should we? What are the stats on Ushahidi and other such targeted projects?
#17: And what about CGI? There may be a fine line between empowerment and surveillance.