Comments on: Wherefore art thou, Wikiatlas? http://sevenlions.org/wp/where-for-art-thou-wikiatlas/ writing, research, art and digital media Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elijah Meeks http://sevenlions.org/wp/where-for-art-thou-wikiatlas/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Elijah Meeks Tue, 19 May 2009 20:43:19 +0000 http://sevenlions.org/wp/?p=384#comment-81 I think participatory culture is more environmentally aware and concerned with these issues on a regular basis, but my call for commons-based environmental modeling was based on the maturity of environmental models, which would serve as a good starting point for developing commons-based modeling. If you're going to want anything more meaningful than maps with pushpins, you're going to have to develop some kind of modeling package that allows for meaningful interaction between elements that are currently considered static. The maps with pushpins are nice, and the existence of computer models or GIS doesn't mean that suddenly street maps disappear, but spatial concepts are much deeper than this. I'm sure the idea of a collaboratively-built encyclopedia or a collaboratively-built operating system, database, image-processing package, et cetera, would have also seemed pretty pie-in-the-sky. I think participatory culture is more environmentally aware and concerned with these issues on a regular basis, but my call for commons-based environmental modeling was based on the maturity of environmental models, which would serve as a good starting point for developing commons-based modeling. If you’re going to want anything more meaningful than maps with pushpins, you’re going to have to develop some kind of modeling package that allows for meaningful interaction between elements that are currently considered static. The maps with pushpins are nice, and the existence of computer models or GIS doesn’t mean that suddenly street maps disappear, but spatial concepts are much deeper than this.

I’m sure the idea of a collaboratively-built encyclopedia or a collaboratively-built operating system, database, image-processing package, et cetera, would have also seemed pretty pie-in-the-sky.

]]> By: Anthony DiPierro http://sevenlions.org/wp/where-for-art-thou-wikiatlas/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Anthony DiPierro Tue, 19 May 2009 19:22:19 +0000 http://sevenlions.org/wp/?p=384#comment-80 Having followed this a bit, I'd say Open Street Maps is the site to beat at this point. But then, I'm unclear of the purpose of "a commons-based model of the Earth’s environmental systems". Great for environmental scientists, I guess, but not something I'm likely to use on a regular basis. Sorry, too pie-in-the-sky for me. Having followed this a bit, I’d say Open Street Maps is the site to beat at this point. But then, I’m unclear of the purpose of “a commons-based model of the Earth’s environmental systems”. Great for environmental scientists, I guess, but not something I’m likely to use on a regular basis.

Sorry, too pie-in-the-sky for me.

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