Collaborative+Cartography


 * Collaborative cartography** is defined a number of ways in the literature. It is a new concept, wed those most recent advances in technology that allow us to work together, from diverse place, and at different times. The following links will take you to websites, articles, and a few blogs that discuss this topic (and a related one called **particpatory mapping**).

Be forwarned, collaborative catrography and participatory mapping are a rather new concepts. There is disagreement over what consitutes collaborative cart. Particpatory mapping using a technolgy-based interface is still very much in its infantcy. Your expericenes in this class, espcially this last third and our efforts on the school atlas, may or may not agree with the literature. Examine the links carefully.

__What to blog on__: You should first become familair with the links below. Write a blog on collaborative cartography as we experienced it in this class. Make sure to critically assess this process. In your writing you should place your experiences in the context of the technology we employed and those types of activities and technologies discussed in the links below. It is through your combined efforts on this blog entry that we may be able to refine the definition of this topic and further contribute to its evolution as a viable and cartographic exercise of these technologies.

[|Collaborative cartography] - several blog entries from the 'techwando' blog - you'll have to overlook the advertising.

[|Roaming and collaborative cartograph*] - an entry from 'we make money not art' blog.

[|Collaborative Mapping at Emerging Technology 2004] - an article from O'reilly.com on a conference on the subject. Yes, Tim O'reilly ... I was surprised too.

[|Participatory Avenues, the Gateway to Community Mapping, P3DM and PPGIS] - the mother load of all particpatory mapping sites. You can spend days on this one. Loads of links, articles, and even videos about participaroty mapping. Not a whole lot on collaborative cartography as it is traditionally defined (i.e. technology-based) but lots of stuff on interfacing the public knowledge base with the technology of the land and community managers. Love this site.

- a .pdf from the GeoVista center at PSU. This is a draft. I think the orginal has been published. READ THIS ONE!

[|The GeoVista center] - you should take a look at this one. you should take a look at this one. you should take a look at this one. Penn State is the leader in terms of academic cartography in the US. Visit this site, the geocollaboration page of the GeoVista center, and examine what they are doing research-wise.

[|About collaborative cartography] - one of the posts on the 'pasta and vinger' blog. This one is in response to an article that apears in the New Scientist.

[|'Geocollaboration'] - another one from the folks at 'pasta and vinger'.

[|Honey, I Geotagged the Kids] - an article on (and interpretation of) collaborative cartography.

[|Collaborative Cartography and Location Sensing] - a blog and discussion on collaborative cartography as seen from the 'urban' perspective. This one is from the folks running the 'Urban Tapestries' blog site. Explore their site, it has some interesting 'interpretations' you should be aware of.

[|Collaborative mapping] - from 'webmapper', a blog about collaborative cartography. This site is almost exclusively about the subject - look around. There are links, articles, and discussions on the topic. The guys are from the Netherlands (the European cartographers are a little ahead of us interms of the theory and practice of collaborative mapping).

[|collaborative-maps-via-editgrid] - from the 'Digital Urban' blog. This is a collaborative cartography application (which works only sometimes). There are also some very good blog entries on other subjects relkevent to our course. Check them out ... really, some of them are very good.

Collaborative GIS projects for the Social Sciences - - a short .pdf reprinted for ESRI.

[|Geo-collaboration For an Agile World] - this is from a company called Toucan. The link takes you to their site where they talk about the collboration process - including mapping and GPS applications. Read through this thoroughly. IMHO, this is a peek at the future of web-based, collabrative mapping.