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Crowdsourced Cartography: Mapping Experience and Knowledge

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  • Martin Dodge

    (Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England)

  • Rob Kitchin

    (NIRSA, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland)

Abstract

This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies. Taking a philosophical perspective that views mapping as a processual, creative, productive act, constructed through citational, embodied, and contextual experiences, we examine how we might profitably analyse collaborative crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap to better understand geographic knowledge production in a shifting political economy and sociotechnical landscape. We begin by characterising crowdsourcing practices in the wider context of Web 2.0, which some commentators assert is rapidly becoming a new, dominant mode of knowledge production. We then contextualise Web 2.0 knowledge production, drawing upon the ideas of sociologist George Ritzer, and his notion of ‘prosumption’, geographer Michael Goodchild's idea of volunteerist ‘citizen scientists’, and economic commentator Nicholas Carr's critique of the ‘ignorance of crowds’. We then go on to discuss the changing nature of cartography in the Web 2.0 era with respect to authorship, ontology, representation, and temporality.

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  • Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin, 2013. "Crowdsourced Cartography: Mapping Experience and Knowledge," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(1), pages 19-36, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:45:y:2013:i:1:p:19-36
    DOI: 10.1068/a44484
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    1. Flurina M. Wartmann & Ross S. Purves, 2017. "What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language," Land, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-16, November.
    2. Malecki, Edward J., 2017. "Real people, virtual places, and the spaces in between," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 3-12.
    3. Hippolyte Pruvost & Peter Mooney, 2017. "Exploring Data Model Relations in OpenStreetMap," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-17, October.
    4. Cardullo, Paolo & Kitchin, Rob, 2017. "Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: Up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation," SocArXiv v24jn, Center for Open Science.
    5. Cardullo, Paolo & Kitchin, Rob, 2017. "Living Labs, vacancy, and gentrification," SocArXiv waq2e, Center for Open Science.
    6. Renigier-Biłozor, Małgorzata & Źróbek, Sabina & Walacik, Marek & Janowski, Artur, 2020. "Hybridization of valuation procedures as a medicine supporting the real estate market and sustainable land use development during the covid-19 pandemic and afterwards," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).

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