I think the important bit is that the two are converging. We can label them however we like but what was once just for professionals is rapidly becoming available to anyone. There is a good debate to be had on what the repercussions of this will be, and a lot of interesting perspectives. Just finished sending in some responses for Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers on the debate.
The 4 questions they provided were: - In what ways do you think mapping will develop creatively in the future? - Do you think mapping will become more democratic in the future? - Does the future of mapping entail the end of cartography? - What opportunities might future ways of mapping create for academic geographers in terms of their research or teaching? The other responders were: - Denis Wood (critical, social theorist) - Mary Spence (professional cartographer and president of British Cartographic Society) Would be interesting to see what the group here thinks. Personally I think it is great to see it being discussed and that geowanking in general is having such an impact on traditional geography. I'll see if I can post the results once it gets published since getting a hold of academic journals is a pain in the arse. best, sean FortiusOne Inc, 2200 Wilson Blvd. suite 307 Arlington, VA 22201 cell - 202-321-3914 ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:32:02 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Geowanking] was: novice vs experts Ok Steve, prefer non-expert to novice? Hopefully you understood anyway. I am talking about the difference between things like driving a car in 1910 (many had professional drivers), computers in 1960 (also professional drivers), secretaries (professional word processors) in the 1970s (now the boss writes her own letters), licensed topographic engineers vs home-grade GPS in the streets, etc. ______________________________________________ Michael Gould Dept. Information Systems (LSI) Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain. email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es www.geoinfo.uji.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:49:30 +1030 From: stephen white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Geowanking Digest, Vol 59, Issue 15 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 13/10/2008, at 5:52 PM, michael gould wrote: > ...is that an important characteristic of neogeography (it's not > JUST new > geography) is that it breaks down the barrier between geo-expert and > geo-novice. Only by reducing everyone to novices. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
