Category:Geography
This is a new section to collate our resources related to place, geography, both physical and digital (i.e. cyber-mapping, etc...)
Introduction
- We conceive of Land and Food as a Commons:
- It will also focus on developments related to Localization or Relocalization. Read here why such Localization of 'physical production'is inevitable: John Robb on the Energy Trap, though combined with global open design communities.
Steve Bosserman sees Localization occuring in four key domains:
1) affordable / green construction, 2) 100-mile agricultural production, 3) renewable / distributed energy generation 4) community governance / capacity building.
We support
- the 10 principles outlined in Jonathan Raper's Digital Geography Manifesto.
- Grassroots Mapping: a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute [1]
- the Open Street Map project
(status of this section: We have only ported the 6 first columns of our Encyclopedia, from A to G at present.)
Citations
Mapping is never neutral
"While online maps may for some time have been considered as neutral pieces of technology, geographers, sociologists, and historians are now treating them as cultural-based artifacts with an ideological bias that inherently accompany their design. In other words, maps are being reinterpreted as structures of power: they distribute authority between different individuals or groups of people. According to J. Brian Harley, cartographer and historian, ‘political power is most effectively reproduced, communicated, and experienced throughout maps’. In general, this power can be related to the production of cartographic documents and the systems that enable it, to map literacy, to conditions of authorship, and to the very nature of the political statements that are made by these new pieces of technology. Maps can indeed be understood as a kind of language used to mediate a particular view of our world."
- Gustavo Velho Diogo [2]
Why Localization is Inevitable in a Resource-scarce World
"It is an article of faith that global trade will be an ever-growing presence in the world. Yet this belief rests on shaky foundations. Global trade depends on cheap, long-distance freight transportation. Freight costs will rise with climate change, the end of cheap oil, and policies to mitigate these two challenges.
At first, the increase in freight costs will be bad news for developed and developing nations alike but, as adjustments in the patterns of trade occur, the result is likely to be decreased outsourcing with more manufacturing and food production jobs in North America and the European Union. The pattern of trade will change as increasing transportation costs outweigh traditional sources of comparative advantage, such as lower wages. The new geography of trade will not result from policy or treaties but from the impact of changing environmental conditions due to the growth of the human economy. ... Many goods will be manufactured closer to where they are consumed, as supply chains become more regional and local."
- Fred Curtis, David Ehrenfeld [3]
Towards the hyperlocal
"The decisive paradigm from the age of mass production was culminating in the claim "think global - act local" - the view of international brands and enterprises, conquering markets worldwide and batteling with salesforces for the dominance in each region on a global scale.
The emerging paradigm from the coming age of connectivity shows a totally opposite point of view, expressed by individuals with the claim "think global-act hyperlocal"."
- Reinhard Knobelspies [4]
Policy Recommendations
On Localization
- Measures for Relocalization and Reruralization, 2 times four essential policy principles, as proposed by Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Key Resources
Watch this superb lecture: Michael Goodchild on Volunteer Mapping's Role in Geospatial Science, “From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking” :: NSF’s Distinguished Lecture series [5]
Note: "In the mapping and geospatial worlds, you might want to check out the OSgeo (open source geospatial) community, as well as the far more bureacratic GEOSS project (Global Earth Observation System of Systems), a global inter-governmental collaboration for sharing scientific data, mostly from satellites, but also other kinds of sensors." - Miles Fidelman, NextNet, May 2011)
Key Articles
Digital geography for human emancipation:
- A Digital Geography Manifesto: 10 principles
- The Emergence of Populist Cartography and Countermapping. Jeremy W. Crampton on how cartography has escaped the elites.
- Creating maps for everyone and network effects for the data driving them. Sean Gorman
- The rise of the sensor citizen – community mapping projects and locative media. Anne Galloway
- Essay: Dan Hill. The Street as Platform: explores a cross-section of all the ways that urban environments have become suffused with data.
- Introduction to Open Geoscience. Three-part series by Lance McKee in Earthzine.
- Can Participatory Mapping Save the Commons?
Also:
- Mapping in a Participatory Culture: new geographic media literacy project
- Linked Geographies. Stefaan Verhulst on what happens when maps meets hyperlinking.
- The geospatial web – blending physical and virtual spaces. Arno Scharl
- Collapsing Geography: on Second Life, Innovation, and the Future of National Power. By Cory Ondrejka.
- Web mapping vs. GIS. Andrew Turner.
- Nainamo, the capital of Google Earth, at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720932,00.html
On localization:
How-to:
- How to Map the New Economy in Your City By Mira Luna
Key Blogs
- Making Maps
- Straight To The Point: Location based technology, local content services, and new developments in local media and journalism, including lots of geo and mapping info.
- The Metacarta blog
- The Y!Geo blog for Yahoo mapping developments
- The Google Earth blog
- The Digital Geographer: All things digital and geographic. By Jonathan Raper.
- Mapperz: Map and GIS News finding blog...
Key Books
- The Birth of Territory. By Stuart Elden. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013: " provides a detailed account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought". [6]
- Critique of the Metageography of Continents: Book: The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. By Martin W. Lewis and Kären Wigen. University of California Press, 1997: "In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world."
- Introduction to Neogeography. Andrew Turner.
- Making Maps. John Krygier and Denis Wood.
- Rethinking the Power of Maps. By Denis Wood,John Fels and John Krygier
Key Conferences
- State of the Map: annual conferences for the Open Street Map communities
- Where 2.0
Key projects
P2P Action Research Groups:
Key Resources
- Open Source GIS: an attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects
- Aether reviews the geography of media
- Issue 21 of Receiver magazine discusses geowebbing, i.e. personally annotating physical places with digital markers
- The March 2009 issue of OSBR is dedicated to geospatial developments
Sub-Categories
Pages in category "Geography"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 490 total.
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- Land as Commons
- Land Ownership Mapping UK
- Land-Based DAO Directory
- Law of Locality
- Libre Map
- Life Maintainance Organisations
- Linked GeoData
- Linked Geodata
- Liquefaction of Society
- Liquid Politics
- Liquid Space
- Living Cities Movement
- Local
- Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons
- Local Data
- Local Economy
- Local Food Systems
- Local Harvest
- Local Scrip Money
- Local Web 2.0
- Local Wiki
- Local, State, and Global
- Localisation
- Localism
- Localism and the Information Society
- Locality
- Localization
- Localization Graphic
- Localization Papers
- Localizing the Internet beyond Communities and Networks
- Localvore
- Locative Journalism
- Locative Media
- Locative Media and the City
- Locavores
- Low-Cost Sensing by Citizens and Community Groups
M
- Maker Incubator
- Maker Map
- Making Maps
- Map Knitter
- Mapa Cicloviário Unificado do Rio de Janeiro - BR
- Mapas Livres
- MapJam
- MAPPEO
- Mapping Community
- Mapping for Change
- Mapping Parties
- Mapping Resistance
- Mapping the Commons in Athens
- Mapufacture
- Marc Halevy on Continentalization
- Marine Map
- MarineMap Consortium
- Measures for Relocalization and Reruralization
- Meipi Mapping
- Michael Goodchild on Volunteer Mapping's Role in Geospatial Science
- Michael Liebhold on the Geospatial Web
- Michael Pollan on the Emerging Local Food Movement
- Michael Shuman on the Small-Mart Revolution
- Michelle Long on the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- MicroMappers
- Mike Liebhold on the Geospatial Web and Mobile Service Ecologies
- Mikel Maron
- Mobile Crisis Mapping
- Molly Myerson on Local Food Mapping
- Monetary Regionalisation and the 4th Regiogeld Summit
- Multi-Local Societies
- MySpace Urbanism
N
O
- Occupy, Social Media, Public Space, and the Emerging Logics of Aggregation
- Olha Obra
- OMAR
- On the Need for Global Deterritorialized Counter-Struggles
- Open Cities
- Open City Guides
- Open Commons Region
- Open Cyprus
- Open Earth
- Open Geocoder
- Open Geoscience
- Open Geoscience Data
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- Open GPS Tracker
- Open Green Map
- Open InfraRed
- Open Layers
- Open Localism
- Open Location
- Open LS Route Service
- Open Path View
- Open PV Project
- Open Relocalisation
- Open Source Cartography
- Open Source Cities
- Open Source City
- Open Source City Mapping
- Open Source Geographic Information System
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- Open Source GIS
- Open Source GIS Software
- Open Source Programmable GPS Devices
- Open Source Spatial Tools
- Open Street Browser
- Open Street Map
- Open Street Map of Athens
- Open Territories
- Open-Source DIY Floating Maker Island
- Open-Source Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
- Open-Source Software City
- Openly Local
- OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Opte Project
- OSM-P2P
- Overture Maps Foundation
P
- P2P Cities
- P2P Plazas
- P2P-enabled Search for Missing Objects and Persons
- Pachube
- ParaiSurural/es
- Parallel Villages
- PARK(ing) Day
- Participatory Design of Cities
- Participatory GIS
- Participatory Mapping
- Participatory Marine Protected Area Design
- Participatory Urban Planning
- Patrick Meier Discusses Crowdsourced Crisis Response
- Patrick Meier on Changing the World One Map at a Time
- Patrick Meier on Collaborative Mapping Platforms
- Patrick Meier on Crisis Mapping
- Patrick Philippe Meier on Crisis Mapping
- Paul and Sarah Edwards on Relocalization the Economy
- Peer to Peer Cartography
- Peermaps
- People's Geography Project
- People’s Agenda for Alternative Regionalisms
- Physital
- Place and Space Research
- Place Hacking
- Placemaking
- Placeopedia
- Planetary Geostructures
- Pocket Neighborhoods
- Powers of Place
- PPGis Net
- Primaveraromana
- Project for Public Spaces
- Promise of Regional Currencies
- Proyecto "Imagina un bulevar"/es
- Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
- Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems
- Public Space as a Commons
- Public Sphere Project
R
- Radical Geography
- Re-Localisation
- Reality Mining
- Reasoned Localization and Selective Deglobalization
- Rebecca Moore on Mapping Tools for Indigenous People
- REconomy
- Reconomy
- Recovering the Commons
- Recovering the Commons in Appalachia and Beyond
- Regional Currencies
- Regulatory Regionalism
- Reinvention of Localized Economies
- Relocalization
- Resilient Cities
- Responsible Territories
- Restanza
- Rethinking the Power of Maps
- REVES
- Revisiting Critical GIS
- Rio Youth Mapping Project
- RIPE Atlas
- Rise of Regional Economies
- Robotic Feral Public Authoring
- RoomWare Project
- Rootedness