Session notes - Jon Garfunkel taking notes

Session Title: Mapping

Discussion Leaders:

• Matthew Davis ESRI - world leader in GIS (geographic information systems) spatial modeling tools
• Christian Jacqz, http://mass.gov/mgis 

Issues

• Why are people interested in mapping?
• • Making mapping interesting to broad general public
• What kind of datasets should be shared?
• How does that improve things in government?
• Location-based mobility
• Situational Awareness, Data storage
• Risks / Dangers
• • Privacy
  • Trust/Safety
  • Misuse of map information
  • Crimes maps as "red-lining", lead to downward spiral
  • Ethics
• Different Technologies
• • GIS vs. Google Maps: the perception among some is that GIS formats are not sufficiently open
  • Consumerization of technology
• Making it happen: Vision to Funding to Execution
• • Culture
  • Mainstreamed
• Source of Data
• • Government collection
  • • Satellite images - (Federal level, captured by satellites) - for fee?
    • Orthophoto (state level, captured by planes) - available for free
  • "Crowdsourcing"
• Standardized land use code
• Mapping Steps
• • Collect
  • Validate (Geotagging, tweaking) 
  • Visualize (Prepare the map)
  • Share (Provide the map)
  • Analyze

Mapping Topics

• Transportation
• • Potholes
  • Parking
  • Speed Trap identifying
  • Traffi
• Public Safety
• • 911
  • National
  • "Please Rob Me"
• Public Health
• Planning, "what if scenarios"

Follow-Up Items

• Wiki resource - Map Topic vs. steps

Definitions

• Situational Awareness - Knowing information now
• Maps, Data, Visualization, Time
• Geotagging
• GIS

Links

• MetroBoston planning
• Haiti/Disaster response : Open Street Map , Star Tides
• Boston iPhone pothole reporting: Globe Article 
• http://gis.cityofboston.gov/zoning/
• http://pleaserobme.com/ - mining of Twitter updates of who's not home
• MapServer - open source web mapping
• MassDOT - http://www.eot.state.ma.us/developers/
• Virtual Alabama - http://www.dhs.alabama.gov/virtual_alabama/home.aspx
• Grassroots Mapping - "Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute"
• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqis use internet to survive war - "...One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block..."