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‘Nobody wants to do council estates’ – digital divide, spatial justice and outliers – AAG 2012

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At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, I presented during the session ‘Information Geographies: Online Power, Representation and Voice’, which was organised by Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute) and Matthew Zook (University of Kentucky). For an early morning session on a Saturday, the session was well attended – and the papers […]

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Association of American Geographers, Concepts, Conference, Digital divide, facebook, OpenStreetMap, Science and Technology, social media, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

The Best of 2011

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As 2011 draws to a close it is worth reflecting on what, I think, has been a defining year for mapping and spatial analysis. Geographic data have become open, big, and widely available, leading to the production of new and interesting maps on an almost daily basis. The increasing utilisation of technology such as Google Fusion Tables has …

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best of 2011, Collaboration, facebook, Featured Maps, iPhone, map, rivers, surnames, universe, visualisation, xkcd projection