Manchester, Madchester, Mapchester
M60 ring mapped during this weekend’s Mapchester event
“Mapchester is an experiment in ‘citizen cartography’ that we hope will make a significant contribution to wider efforts in so-called ‘open-source’ mapping. This an emerging and rapidly growing cartographic activity, driven in part by technology (cheap GPS equipment and online collaboration tools, like OpenStreetMap.org), but also by a very different ethos to knowledge production. Under open-source models the right of authorship are de-centred and the ownership of knowledge is seen as a common resource that can be distributed and re-used without restriction or license. As such ‘opening’ up mapmaking has real potential to empower people to create their own knowledge and encourages re-use of cartographic resources in novel, creative ways.
(Looks like fun Drew!)
May 15th, 2006 at 7:47 am
Have you read ‘Nymphomation’ by Jeff Noon? The title of this post put me in mind of some of his wordplay with “Manchester”
http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/noon_works.html#Anchor-Nymphomation-35882
May 15th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I hadn’t - cheers!
April 6th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Have this method of “mapping” any related source to the tool of “Cultural Planning”where the main idea (together with citizens) is to do culutral mapping and strengthen the exisiting resources and identity specific for the site, the sense of place. Instead of focusing on weaknesses in within the place as we usually do in strategic planning?