Back in Business
Vernacular mappings is back, after a hiatus enforced by dodgy plugin scripts. Hat-tip to Thomas Jellis at spacesof[aesthetic]experimentation for getting us back online.
For Félix: Transversal Geographies
Below is a CFP for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in February 2012, New York. Do get in touch if you’ve got any thoughts or ideas on this session. For Félix: Transversal Geographies Convenors: JD Dewsbury … Continue reading
Art & Cartography Event, Paris, July 2011
Forthcoming workshop entitled: “Mapping Processes and Practices” @ Institut de Géographie, Universite Paris I, more details here: http://artcarto.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/workshop-paris-july-2nd-2011-program/
Crime Mapping UK
The debate about the publication of Crime Maps heated up very quickly, but now it has gone quiet. Should we letting these maps pass without question? Thank you to the Independent and Guardian for printing my letters on the issue.
Guest Editorial
Guest editorial now available from Cartographica. Gerlach, J. (2010) Vernacular mappings, and the ethics of what comes next. Cartographica. 45 (3), pp165-168.
Nos vemos en Lima
With only a few days until we depart for Lima, preparations for the mapping party are coming together not too badly, and there has been more interest in the event than first anticipated. This reflects more ignorance and naivety on … Continue reading
Viral Lima
It’s not exactly viral, but the Lima mapping party is becoming contagious and its co-ordination rapidly out of my hands. It seems that there is already a vibrant open-source community in Peru, albeit a virtual one which as yet remains … Continue reading
geography is…
Pains me as it does to mention Starbucks, I keep seeing this short, but affecting, refrain everywhere. Why is it that we have to rely on monstrous coffee-chains to be doing the PR work of geographers?
sotm #1
A brief report back from the 2010 State of the Map Conference in sunny, hot Girona. It’s been an interesting and hectic day, with the conference opening on a business theme (as is usual for the Fridays of an OSM … Continue reading