FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 4)
OSM in Action. During the six years of history, the OSM project has been able to grow thanks to the volunteer work of an active community of amateur mappers and...
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FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 3)
Meeting at the Crossroads Maps are a form of media that display geographic information and spatial data. They are graphic statements that carry a message about ...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 1)
On January 12 2010, after the catastrophic earthquake (magnitude 7.0 Mw) near Port au Prince that triggered a humanitarian crisis, hundreds of volunteers distri...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 2)
III. A Complex Techno-militar-scientific-media System (production) After the World Wars of the 20th century and during the Cold Ward, the United States of Ameri...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 1)
The first time I heard about GPS enabled navigation devices was during the Persian Gulf War when television reporters highlighted the use of GPS technology by t...
silueta de monserrate y guadalupe
July 11th, 2009 this is a public space project in which i will draw the silhouette of the two big mountains in the streets of the bogota downtown. it will be a ...