Comments on: Cartographic Perspectives on the doom of Web Mapping http://highearthorbit.com/cartographic-perspectives-on-the-doom-of-web-mapping/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Christian http://highearthorbit.com/cartographic-perspectives-on-the-doom-of-web-mapping/#comment-195557 Christian Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:06:13 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/cartographic-perspectives-on-the-doom-of-web-mapping/#comment-195557 In that context I like the views of Michael Frank Goodchild expressed in <a href="http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~good/papers/454.pdf" rel="nofollow">Assertion and Authority: The Science of User-Generated Geographic Content</a>. Cartographic knowledge is being assimilated by software like OpenStreetMap. Non-cartographers, but therefore local experts, are able to enter and edit local data. The software takes care of proper visualization. Well, I know we are not quite there yet, but on the other hand, isn't it a weird situation where strangers do maps about my area? I mean, who knows a region better than a local? ;-) In that context I like the views of Michael Frank Goodchild expressed in Assertion and Authority: The Science of User-Generated Geographic Content.

Cartographic knowledge is being assimilated by software like OpenStreetMap. Non-cartographers, but therefore local experts, are able to enter and edit local data. The software takes care of proper visualization.

Well, I know we are not quite there yet, but on the other hand, isn’t it a weird situation where strangers do maps about my area? I mean, who knows a region better than a local? ;-)

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