Mapping II: News media mapping, new mediated geovisualities, mapping and verticality

Dodge, Martin

doi:10.1177/0309132517733086

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“…In the light of these findings, Stephen Graham’s (2016) call to bring geographic debates into line “with the proliferating verticalities of our world, a highly mobile and uneven world of often disorientating vertical views, mobilities and structures which can only be understood in volumetric rather than two-dimensional, planar ways” (p. 13), almost reads like a call for wide-scale use of SLAM-based mapping within the field of geography. We argue that, by virtue of the highly mobile, egocentric, and 3D cartographic mode it provides, SLAM can help to overcome the “flat” tradition now seen as a hindrance to the geographical understanding of vertically structured urban spaces (Dodge, 2018; Graham, 2016; Hewitt & Graham, 2015). As we will see in the following sections, SLAM can contribute to urban vertical geography in more than one way: Besides the volumetric measurement and representation of the surroundings, SLAM devices—autonomously or in cooperation with human actors—are not limited to surveying the outside.…”

Section: Satellite Network and External Databasesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Simultaneous localization and mapping and the situativeness of a new generation of geomedia technologies

Kanderske

Thielmann

2019

Communication and the Public

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Simultaneous localization and mapping technology is commonly used within mobile devices and household appliances—it allows our vacuum robot to navigate the living room and enables us to view augmented reality content on our smartphones. By examining simultaneous localization and mapping–based devices and contrasting them against more traditional forms of cartographic practices, we argue that simultaneous localization and mapping technology not only opens up interior spaces for geographic examination but also calls into question the categorical difference between inside and outside itself. As with simultaneous localization and mapping, the mathematical construction of the surrounding space happens in the moment of its detection, simultaneous localization and mapping exhibits a moment of radical situativeness that is freed from the constraints of a stabilized, external database. We propose that this moment of situativeness, which is also inscribed into the resulting highly mobile and fluid visualizations, is the defining feature of a new kind of geomedia that simultaneously establish a vertical and a horizontal geography.

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Section: Satellite Network and External Databasesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Simultaneous localization and mapping and the situativeness of a new generation of geomedia technologies

Kanderske

Thielmann

2019

Communication and the Public

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“…While, as per volume itself, drones are commonly narrated as tools employed by the state, communities around the globe are increasingly deploying them in developing understandings of their everyday environments (Choi‐Fitzpatrick, 2019), particularly as these volumes shift in the context of climate change. While not to eschew the “egis of military need” through which drones emerged (Dodge, 2018, p. 954), examples such as We Robotics’ “flying labs,” in which drones are deployed with communities in response to local challenges and need (Nepal Flying Labs, n.d.), provide a useful counterpoint. Nepal’s Flying Lab (2019), for example, has deployed drones in mapping glaciers and the effects of climate change on water reserves.…”

Section: Capturing Everyday Volumesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forging volumetric methods

Jackman

Squire

2021

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The last two decades have seen a "volumetric turn" within Anglophone social sciences and humanities scholarship. This turn is premised on the idea that space may be better understood in three-dimensional termswith complex heights and depthsrather than as a series of two-dimensional areas or surfaces. While there is an increasingly diverse and rich set of scholarship accounting for voluminous complexities in the air, oceans, ice, mountains, and undergrounds, all too often this work foregrounds state and military-led approaches to volume. This has resulted in a limited methodological toolkit through which to explore voluminous complexities as they emerge and extend beyond military and state contexts. Often reliant on elite interviews, archives, and cartographies, there has been little critical discussion of both methodological practice and the "flatness" of research outputs articulating three-dimensional worlds. In this paper we address this by foregrounding the role of immersive and multisensory methodologies (sounding volumes, seeing-sensing drone volumes, and object volumes). To conclude, we offer avenues for further inquiry, including attending to shifting everyday voluminous experiences in the Anthropocene, and the need to diversify the communication of "volume" research.

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“…(Business owner and new resident of Cranbrook). Although respondents were concerned specifically with the link between representation and reputation, a further risk of DIY street view production that should be considered is the use of the imagery for spatial profiling (Dodge, 2018). Here, a distinction between 360° imagery as visual representation or quantitative data is useful (Hoelzl and Marie, 2014;Shapiro, 2017: , ref. removed for peer review).…”

Section: Diy Street Views and The Politics Of Urban Visibility In 360°mentioning

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Do-It-Yourself Street Views and the Urban Imaginary of Google Street View

Cinnamon¹,

Gaffney

2021

Journal of Urban Technology

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Google Street View (GSV) is the de facto platform for street-level visual representation in most settings; however, its coverage is highly uneven due to a range of political, legal, technological, and economic factors. GSV's spatiotemporal disparities are most evident within cities, and this advances a distorted urban imaginary of absences, fragments, and obsolescences. This paper traces key developments in 360° imaging poised to expand the production and consumption of street-level imagery, including new actors, platforms, technologies, and data production approaches. Then, engaging with consumer-grade imaging technologies and the notion of do-it-yourself urbanism, this paper develops a DIY street view approach as one new mode of producing streetlevel imagery. Drawing on the findings of a pilot study, the paper considers key practical issues for street-view production, the benefits and risks of DIY approaches in relation to corporate and crowdsourced imagery initiatives, and the politics of urban representation in 360°. Findings suggest that the DIY approach offers the potential for a more "careful curation" of space in 360° street-level representations; however, there are considerations specific to this "third way" that require further attention.

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Mapping II: News media mapping, new mediated geovisualities, mapping and verticality

Cited by 17 publications

References 51 publications

Simultaneous localization and mapping and the situativeness of a new generation of geomedia technologies

Simultaneous localization and mapping and the situativeness of a new generation of geomedia technologies

Forging volumetric methods

Do-It-Yourself Street Views and the Urban Imaginary of Google Street View

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