{"id":7808,"date":"2012-01-30T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:32","slug":"urban-planet-citizen-cartography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/30\/urban-planet-citizen-cartography\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Citizen Cartography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"map\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe map user has now become the map creator,\u201d says Fraser Taylor, Director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University. In a recent article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisbigcity.net\/how-citizen-mapmakers-are-changing-the-story-of-our-cities\/\">This Big City<\/a>, author Christine McLaren explores the phenomenon of citizen cartographers. With the proliferation of mobile GIS technology and open-source mapping tools, citizens are increasingly finding and creating new datasets to map and overlay. Traditionally a way for authorities to control their jurisdictions, citizen-driven cartography is being used to hold governments to account.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/art\/2011\/11\/is-a-garden-the-worlds-greatest-new-artwork\/\">This Big City<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. \u201cThe map user has now become the map creator,\u201d says Fraser Taylor, Director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/30\/urban-planet-citizen-cartography\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Citizen Cartography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[796,1341,4274,1616,882,4468,4466,4467,4469,4465,1731,550],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-author","tag-carleton-university","tag-christine-mclaren","tag-director","tag-facebook","tag-fraser-taylor","tag-geomatics-and-cartographic-research-centre","tag-geomatics-and-cartographic-research-centre-at-carleton-university","tag-mobile-gis-technology","tag-open-source-mapping-tools","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Citizen Cartography - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/30\/urban-planet-citizen-cartography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Citizen Cartography - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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