Week 5 (16/18 Feb)

16 Feb Debriefing after WIDH/NYCDH Week

Today's course will be an informal discussion based one, based on the experiences that you had during last week's workshops, to ease us back into the work of class.

Here are the steps of today's class:

1) 0900-0917 read over the materials from the Chat and make sure you have responded to at least one other person.

2) 0917-0930 share general impressions of the events

3) 0930-0945 breakout rooms to discuss these questions using the experience of your workshop

• what did you learn during the session?

• how long would it take you to be proficient at the skills presented?

• should courses at NYUAD have elements of such proficiencies in them? which ones?

• should a CS major, a SRPP major, a humanities major have such skills? or are they more ancillary to university education?

• if you had studied these 1st or 2nd year, how might your capstone look different now?

4) share back and close

Homework:

Watch: a webinar about Armchair Mapping using OSM, the "Wikipedia of maps" (watch in Chrome, not Firefox!)

Explore:

Visualizing Wikipedia edits: http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en
Maps as "live" objects: https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/
OSM map features
OSM Analytics
Twelve Yale-NUS students participate in Inaugural Mapathon (The Octant)

Read: Conflict-of-interest editing in Wikipedia | Google redraws borders on maps depending on who's looking (WAPO)

Thought question: Is there conflict-of-interest editing with maps? What would it look like?

For the next class exercise you will be using your OSM account that you signed up for to work in UMap. Make sure you can still open it!

18 Feb "Armchair" Mapping (synchronous Zoom class)

Learning to edit OSM (the "Wikipedia of mapping")

Discussion: "Thou shall not be a map imperialist" (Hixson) & the concept of a "data gap"

What do you think of knowledge that is always changing?

Explore: Find a public mapathon in the world and report back the reasons why and the community members.

Hands on: Looking at a place in the world & suggesting an edit.

GPS Traces

GPS maps show the wild adventure your cat goes on at night (Mashable)

Homework:

1. Read: "Filling OpenStreetMap data gaps in rural Nepal" (sections: Introduction / Related Work) | "Combine maps, data and local knowledge to improve humanitarian response" (Devex) | "Participatory Mapping" (Mapping for Rights) | "Participatory Mapping" (Healthy Urbanism) | HOT activates Pidie Earthquake Tasking Manager

2. Quick writing #6 : Choose a place in the world that you know quite well (your hometown, a place you traveled on vacation and spent quite some time, an old neighborhood that you lived in (please do not choose NYUAD campus or Saadiyat Island around the university). Log in to OpenStreetMap in the way that is described in the webinar and exercise for today. For your quick writing I would like you to identify information that has been connected to locations (features, naming, landmarks, streets, etc) and make an assessment of what kinds of choices the OSM community made. What kind of local information is located on the map? Be sure that you look at the different map layers (cycle, transport, OPNVKarte, Humanitarian). Do they reflect any kind of cultural, linguistic or informational bias? Do you notice "data gaps"? contested spatial information? Look quickly at the same area in Google Maps or Apple Maps or Bing Maps and compare with OSM. Please post your short version of your remarks in Chat by 0600, 23 Feb.

Save your notes from this exercise, as you will be reusing this information and building upon it in the upcoming Assignment 1.