{"id":15799,"date":"2013-01-01T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:10:17","slug":"2012-inreview-new-cartographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/01\/01\/2012-inreview-new-cartographers\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 InReview: New cartographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular posts from 2012. Each day this week, we will be posting some of our favourite posts from last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>New cartographers: How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives<\/h1>\n<p><i>Originally<\/i><em>\u00a0posted by Christine McLaren on January 30, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"kiss-map-toronto-558x372\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bmwguggenheimlab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/kiss-map-toronto-558x372.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/indepth_feature-VAN.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We see them every day, popping up on our Twitter feeds, filtered through blogs, or even scattered throughout the New York Times: maps portraying not the usual locations or destinations, but data.<\/p>\n<p>From people\u2019s kisses in Toronto, to the concentration of pizza joints in New York, to the number of women who ride bikes, to the likelihood of being killed by a car in any given American city, the list of lenses through which we can now view our cities and neighborhoods goes on, thanks to data-mapping geeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe map user has now become the map creator,\u201d is how Fraser Taylor put it to me in an interview. The director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University, Taylor is one of the world\u2019s leading cartographers, standing as the director of the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping and a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Global Geographic Information Management as well as a host of other major international mapping organizations.<\/p>\n<p>He describes what\u2019s going on as an enormous cultural shift from a previous era when the mapping of our cities (or countries, or world, for that matter) was placed mainly in the hands of government mapping authorities.<\/p>\n<p>But even more importantly, Taylor says, we are also mapping new things\u2014intangibles like social phenomena, feelings, impacts, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividuals inside cities and elsewhere are creating maps for themselves and in fact giving us their own narrative of what a cityscape is about. They are telling us what is important to them, and they\u2019re mapping the kinds of things that previously would not be mapped,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming part of the creation of a culture of a city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New cartographers: How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/30\/new-cartographers-how-citizen-mapmakers-are-changing-the-story-of-our-lives\/\"><strong>Read the full article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular posts from 2012. Each day this week, we will be posting some of our favourite posts from last year. &nbsp; New cartographers: How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives Originally\u00a0posted<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2013\/01\/01\/2012-inreview-new-cartographers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;2012 InReview: New cartographers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6040,"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":[11232],"tags":[704,6213,398,488],"class_list":["post-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-2012-inreview","tag-christine-mclaren","tag-indepth-features","tag-maps-3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2012 InReview: New cartographers - Spacing Vancouver<\/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\/vancouver\/2013\/01\/01\/2012-inreview-new-cartographers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2012 InReview: New cartographers - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular posts from 2012. 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