For fun and profit
The limits and possibilities of Google-Maps-based geoweb applications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig M Dalton (0000-0001-6208-1043, Hofstra University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1029-1046 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x15592302 |
| OpenAlex | W2161578972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 40 |
Software developers who create geographic web applications are a new kind of mapmaker producing new kinds of maps. They typically use private web-mapping services, such as Google Maps, without training in cartography or geographic information systems. How do software developers become mapmaking subjects producing geographic knowledges in the context of corporate mapping services? I argue that geoweb developers' subject positions and geographic knowledges are produced through the social relations of geoweb technology. Specifically, two culturally derived technical codes, playful fun and profit-seeking, are enormously influential in defining the subject positions and knowledges of geoweb applications. Utilizing both textual and in-person research, I analyze the social formation of third-party geoweb applications based on Google Maps, the social, technological limits that application developers work within, and the possibilities for developers in that context. Most developers and their knowledges stick with the technology's social codes, but a few create applications that transgress their contextual limits, opening further new possibilities for mapping, subject formation, and geographic knowledge on the web
Data science · Geography · Knowledge management · Social media · Social web · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Software
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What are the risks of Virtual Reality data? Learning Analytics, Algorithmic Bias and a Fantasy of Perfect Data
Oculus imaginaries
The openness of Open Application Programming Interfaces
Volunteered Geographic Information constructions in a contested terrain
The free labor of “local guides”
Between capture and addition
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
You are where you go, the commodification of daily life through 'location
Posthuman Agency in the Digitally Mediated City
Mapping DigiPlace
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Geographic information science
Geographic Information Science
Code/Space
Just Maps
Sovereigns, Spooks, and Hackers
Maps and Journeys
The Power of Disembodied Imagination
Beyond the geotag
Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds
A trust and reputation model for filtering and classifying knowledge about urban growth
The credibility of volunteered geographic information
Motivations driving government adoption of the Geoweb
Citizens as sensors
Cartography
Situating the geoweb in political economy
Progress in Human Geography
New spatial media, new knowledge politics
Digging into Google Earth
Placemarks and waterlines
Location-based services, conspicuous mobility, and the location-aware future
The creative reconstruction of the Internet
Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth
Researching Volunteered Geographic Information
On the Neo in Neogeography
The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence
Algorithmic War
The wikification of GIS and its consequences
Ludic geographies
Theorizing with GIS
Situating Performative Neogeography
Neogeography and the Delusion of Democratisation
Training the eye
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |