Collaborative Mapping and Digital Participation: A Tool for Local Empowerment in Developing Countries

Pánek, Jiří; Nétek, Rostislav

doi:10.3390/info10080255

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“…This epistemic shift entails a critical conceptualization of digital cartography as a dynamic, multifaceted and interactive practice that transcends its self-referential and representational terms (Kitchin et al., 2009; Wilson, 2015). The user-mapper of digitally visual geographic knowledges interfaces with imagetic platforms in an active and generative way (a point also made by Bratton, 2015), allowing innovative opportunities for aesthetic experimentations with spatial-interactive immersions into that which is digitally made visible (e.g., in a Cape Town’s black township, Brunn and Wilson, 2013; in both Peru and Kenya rural areas, Panek and Netek, 2019).…”

Section: Mapping the Poor: The Aesthetic Effects Of Statistics And Ca...mentioning

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Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law

Ansari

2022

Environ Plan D

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The article explores cartographic and statistical registers of poverty as geo-legal technologies operating across shifting visual economies which structure ways of seeing and concealing ‘the poor’ in the urban landscape. Drawing on the fields of critical cartography and digital urbanism, and taking a 2013 controversy around Google Maps’ mapping of favelas in Rio de Janeiro as a starting point, it investigates the aesthetic role of digital maps and data in the legal geographies of urban poverty. It is argued that sociospatial encodings give form to poverty in ways that activate antipoverty responses and continuously support correlations between poverty and criminality. This argument entails a post-representational approach to maps considering their inscriptional, propositional and normative functions. Cartography, statistics and law are interrogated as devices of global governance that work aesthetically to shape poverty and its modes of appearance in the city, i.e., as productive methods of documentation as well as world-making, through which geocodings simultaneously create images of poverty and become functional of spatial transformations. Poverty is thus conceptualized as it is made into an aesthetic category subjected to continuous geo-legal modulations.

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Section: Mapping the Poor: The Aesthetic Effects Of Statistics And Ca...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law

Ansari

2022

Environ Plan D

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“…Voluntary geographic information (VGI) is a concept that describes borndigital spatial information collected/created by individuals [40]. Some examples of this phenomenon are WikiMapia, OpenStreetMap, and Google Map Maker [41] and as a specific concern within online or web credibility [42].…”

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Map Whiteboard Cloud Solution for Collaborative Editing of Geographic Information

Zadražil

Bergheim

Bērziņš³

et al. 2021

Cloud Computing and Data Science

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For the purpose of exploiting the potential of cloud connectivity in geographical information systems, the Map Whiteboard technology introduced in this article does for web mapping what Google Docs does for word processing; create a shared user interface where multiple parties collaboratively can develop maps and map data while seeing each other work in realtime. To develop the Map Whiteboard concept, we have applied a methodology whereby we have collected technical and functional requirements through a series of hackathons, implemented a prototype in several stages, and subjected this to rigorous testing in a lab environment and with selected users from relevant environments at intermediate scale. The work has resulted in a fully functional prototype that exploits WebSockets via a cloud service to reflect map and data changes between multiple connected clients. The technology has a demonstrated potential for use in a wide range of web GIS applications, something that is facilitated by the interfaces already implemented towards mainstream mapping frameworks like OpenLayers and QGIS-two of the most popular frameworks for Web GIS solutions. Further development and testing are required before operationalization in mission-critical environments. In conclusion, the Map Whiteboard concept offers a starting point for exploiting cloud connectivity within GIS to facilitate the digitalization of common processes within the government and private sector. The technology is ready for early adopters and welcomes the contribution of interested parties.

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“…A total of 55 information channels were collected and actively used. According to Panek et al [22] collaboration is an iterative process (a 'sprint') involving a repeated, limited unit of time. The team discusses the project's workflow and any potential changes, and shortcomings can be subsequently incorporated and improved.…”

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Non-Spatial Data towards Spatially Located News about COVID-19: A Semi-Automated Aggregator of Pandemic Data from (Social) Media within the Olomouc Region, Czechia

Konicek

Nétek

Burian

et al. 2020

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The article describes the process of aggregation of media-based data about the coronavirus pandemic in the Olomouc region, the Czech Republic. Originally non-spatially located news from different sources and various platforms (government, social media, news portals) were automatically aggregated into a centralized database. The application “COVID-map” is an interactive web map solution which visualizes records from the database in a spatial way. The COVID-map has been developed within the Ad hoc online hackathon as an academic project at the Department of Geoinformatics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Alongside spatially localized data, the map application collects statistical data from official sources e.g., from the governmental crisis management office. The impact of the application was immediate. Within a few days after the launch, tens of thousands users per day visited the COVID-map. It has been published by regional and national media. The COVID-map solution could be considered as a suitable implementation of the correctly used cartographical method for the example of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Collaborative Mapping and Digital Participation: A Tool for Local Empowerment in Developing Countries

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law

Cartographies of poverty: Rethinking statistics, aesthetics and the law

Map Whiteboard Cloud Solution for Collaborative Editing of Geographic Information

Non-Spatial Data towards Spatially Located News about COVID-19: A Semi-Automated Aggregator of Pandemic Data from (Social) Media within the Olomouc Region, Czechia

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