Towards the Automated Map Factory: Early Automation at the U.S. Geological Survey

McHaffie, Patrick

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“…A political economy of GIS should be forward looking, examining not only the historical paths that led to the present moment (see, e.g. McHaffie, 2002) but also those paths opened and foreclosed toward possible futures (Sheppard, 1995). Critical GIS must remain attentive to the specific functions of traditional GIS within society, but engaged scholars must also not lose sight of the widening import of 'big' spatial information.…”

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Revisiting critical GIS

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“…Further, attention to the coded platforms that mediate interactions with consumer electronic devices highlights the cultures, practices, and discourses that shape how those platforms are brought into being and used. Inquiry as to these assemblages draws upon the anticipatory geographies of ubiquitous computing development (Kinsley, 2010), the histories of computation and automation (Edwards, 1996;McHaffi e, 2002), the economic geographies of investment in and transport of consumer electronics and their attendant data networks (Graham, 2011a ;Leinbach and Bowen, 2004), and the ways in which urban space becomes a coconstitutive site of such technocultural innovation (Leszczynski, 2012;Rose-Redwood, 2006;Swyngedouw, 2006;Wilson, 2011a;.…”

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Situating Neogeography

Wilson

Graham

2013

Environ Plan A

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Guest editorialSituating neogeography Enormous amounts of online and networked data are becoming part of the layers, experiences, and landscapes of place. Geographers and other social scientists have only relatively recently begun to understand this rapid expansion of user-centered, locational media. Movements in the academy in response to these phenomena have offered a series of organising labels, with different levels of specifi city and layers of connotation: the geoweb, spatial/social media, user-generated content, 'big data', as well as volunteered geographic information (VGI) and neogeography. Within geography a number of events mark these developments, including a VGI specialist meeting in Santa Barbara, USA in 2007 and an accompanying special issue of GeoJournal (Elwood, 2008), a World University Network seminar on neogeography in 2008, an interview with Michael Goodchild conducted by Nadine Schuurman and published by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space in 2009, Progress in Human Geography reports authored by Jeremy Crampton ( 2009) and Sarah Elwood ( 2010), a specialist meeting on space-time geographies of social networks in Santa Barbara in 2010, a preconference gathering on VGI in Seattle in 2011 reported in an edited collection (Sui et al, 2013), and numerous special sessions at the AAG meetings annually since 2008. Meanwhile, popular technology conferences like Where 2.0 have met for eight years and draw designers and engineers representing software giants and startups, as well as representatives from municipal, state, and federal governments, with only a handful of academic geographers. Since Andrew Turner's Introduction to Neogeography (2006), neogeographers are increasingly defi ning themselves in arenas outside of the academy.These developments are united in their focus on data: proliferation, standardization, interoperability, quality/accuracy, and visualization. Locational data, created both actively/ deliberately/knowingly and passively/unconsciously/unknowingly, increasingly take on social, economic, ethical, and political relevance as geographic information becomes ever-more embedded into everyday practices. The technologies underpinning this rapid expansion are seemingly stateless, are constantly shifting, and sometimes ephemeral. Critical geographers may be consequently less prepared to respond to the various instantiations of locational media, but nonetheless must respond. Here, we consider: what are the outlines of this response? How might we situate neogeography? What are the various assemblages, networks, ecologies, confi gurations, discourses, cyborgs, alliances that enable/enact these technologies?The relevance of such questions, and the need for critical interrogations of the subject, become apparent as neogeographic practices become increasingly popular, ever more visible and infl uential, and frequently a component of the ways in which place is enacted, augmented, imagined, and commoditised. Before outlining the work that follows in this theme issue, we wish to draw the ...

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“…In many ways, GIS uses and functions in the planning department reflect an "ideology of automation" (McHaffie, 2002), in order to help accelerate the rate of capital accumulation in the city. On the other hand, GIS development in relation to the recent "Digital City" and "E-governance" discourse in China also points to the goal of improving governmental operations and services facilitated by digital information technologies.…”

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Digitizing the Dragon Head, Geo-Coding the Urban Landscape: GIS and the Transformation of China's Urban Governance

Lin

2013

Urban Geography

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While local governments have been one of the major user groups of GIS, there is still little research on how GIS development in local government might be intertwined with urban governance, particularly in non-Western contexts. Drawing upon insights from GIS implementation, critical GIS, and governmentality studies, this article seeks to bridge this gap by examining the implications of Chinese urban government GIS practices amidst China's changing urban governance. Through an in-depth case study of Shenzhen, this article analyzes how urban GIS has been transformed from a practice involving internal organizational workflow automation, into a more active dimension of the governance of urban spaces-reflected in the expanding practice of "geo-coding" the urban landscape. "Geo-coding" here refers to a broadly defined spatial practice of carving and reconstructing a rational urban space. GIS practices have constituted a particular form of geographic rationality that seeks to govern at a distance while simultaneously regulating the urban environment, intersecting with the broader transformations of China's urban governance. These GIS developments have been largely government-centric rather than citizencentric, yet they provide possibilities for new forms of spatial knowledge production for citizen participation in urban governance. [

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Towards the Automated Map Factory: Early Automation at the U.S. Geological Survey

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Revisiting critical GIS

Revisiting critical GIS

Situating Neogeography

Digitizing the Dragon Head, Geo-Coding the Urban Landscape: GIS and the Transformation of China's Urban Governance

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