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 ...
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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...
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 ...