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Alexandre Enkerli

Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage o... - 1 views

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Mapping

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  • Google learned that you cannot take the human out of the equation
Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

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Mapping OSM

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  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
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      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
Alexandre Enkerli

Cartographie numérique : à travers l'oeil de qui regardons-nous le monde ? « ... - 2 views

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cartographie mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • “comment les cartes numériques changent notre manière de voir le monde”
  • qui contrôle les filtres par lesquels nous allons passer pour percevoir la réalité
  • Chaque kilomètre carré de la planète peut être décrit d’une infinité de manières :
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  • Traditionnellement, ce qui se reflétait dans les cartes était les intérêts des états et de leurs armées, parce que c’étaient eux qui fabriquaient les cartes, et que leur premier usage fut militaire
  • une manière pour quelqu’un de vous faire regarder le monde à sa manière
  • Que se passe-t-il quand nous en venons à regarder le monde, dans une certaine mesure, à travers les yeux de grandes entreprises californiennes ?
  • se demander quelles sont les voies subtiles par lesquelles leurs valeurs ou leurs intérêts façonnent petit à petit nos vies
Alexandre Enkerli

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...google-apple-digital-mapping

mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • someone's way of getting you to look at the world his or her way
  • Any square mile of the planet can be described in an infinite number of ways
  • Traditionally, the interests reflected in maps have been those of states and their armies
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  • What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
  • maps based on mined data come to shape our sense of space
  • Google's and Apple's maps might not just observe our lives, but in some sense come to play a role in directing their course.
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iOS 6 review | iMore.com - 1 views

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Mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 20 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Maps are mainstream. Maps are serious. Maps are my mom and my sister not being able to find where they need to go.
  • Alexandre Enkerli on 20 Sep 12
     
    Maps are mainstream. Maps are serious. Maps are my mom and my sister not being able to find where they need to go.
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