Imagination for People

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

awful performance

DevelopmentSeed

DevelopmentSeed CEO

really rich community of people

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

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

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

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.