Wiki source code of Geomedia
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| 1 | **Geo-What?** | ||
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| 3 | * Geomedia - a new paradigm in the visualisation of space | ||
| 4 | * 'Geo' = space, maps, localisation | ||
| 5 | * Geomedia - assemble & localise activities, texts, images in a space continuum | ||
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| 7 | ** What is geomedia?** | ||
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| 9 | * Geomedia = platforms ➝ enable to merge existing media (photo, video, audio) and technologies in a new way | ||
| 10 | * Integrate: electronic media + the Internet + Geo-location Technologies | ||
| 11 | * Rely on precise location systems ➝ integrate location based data/information with user generated contents and activities | ||
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| 14 | **Examples** | ||
| 15 | * *[SoundSeeker NYC>http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/nysae/nysoundmap/soundseeker.html>_blank]* | ||
| 16 | * *[NY Soundmap>http://www.nysoundmap.org>_blank]* | ||
| 17 | * *[British Library Soundmaps>http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/>+blank]* map index to sound recording collection | ||
| 18 | * *[London Sound Survey>http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php>_blank]* | ||
| 19 | * *Madrid Sound Scape www.madridsoundscape.org -- Now Deadlink ... see at WayBackMachine at http://archive.org | ||
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| 23 | **Virtual Maps** | ||
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| 25 | * Constituted by images, signs, text & sounds Produced by geomedia users, and geolocationally merged with each other in the information space (the Internet) | ||
| 26 | * Virtual map - a mediating space of two entities: Geosphere & Infosphere | ||
| 27 | * A visible articulation of the mediations & social relations (sharing of images, signs etc.) | ||
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| 29 | **How?** | ||
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| 31 | * Electronic media integrating: electronic media + the Internet + Geo-location Technologies | ||
| 32 | * Inexpensive equipment | ||
| 33 | * Inexpensive software (GeoTag, GoogleEarth ↔ Picassa Web,Youtube, Flickr, iPhoto) | ||
| 34 | * No expert knowledge of a complex geo-positional software to use geomedia production | ||
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| 36 | **Geotagging/Georeference** | ||
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| 38 | * The process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media (images, video, distance, place names) | ||
| 39 | * Helps to find a wide variety of location-specific information (a street address ➝ other data/ coordinates) | ||
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| 44 | **Geomedia in Research** | ||
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| 46 | * Enable spatially explicit research | ||
| 47 | ** the information collected is place-based precisely (household interview, observation, urban forms, fieldnotes, photos, videos, sound recordings) | ||
| 48 | * Advantages = return to the exact same location, localise/analyse change | ||
| 49 | * In political science, economy = geographical targeting of policies, regional clustering | ||
| 50 | * Can be also imported into many applications including Stata / NVivo | ||
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| 52 | **Representation** | ||
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| 54 | * Integrates various media + a space/time continuum/ contextualisation (e.g. photography) | ||
| 55 | * 'The world of autonomous images' and reality are finally reconciled | ||
| 56 | * Geomedia & Virtual maps = a representation (assemblage) of interconnected physical and social relations among people and the objects of their world | ||
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| 58 | **Ethics** | ||
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| 60 | * Requires sensitivity in certain situations, cultural/political contexts | ||
| 61 | * 'Sharing' - openness | ||
| 62 | * 'Sharing' - data protection |