Mapping Hacks

Sean Dodson’s latest article in the Guardian, entitled Get
Mapping, features the counterpoint between commercial and amateur (or
civil) cartography:

It is tempting to call it the march of amateur mapmakers: armed with cheap
satellite-tracking handsets, teams of civilian surveyors are out in the field
recording casual journeys and sharing geodata with each other to produce their
own maps. Their aim […]

The Feature has an article written by Michael Sharon for Douglas Rushkoff on
collaborative
cartography, featuring Mapping Hacks.

“Everything that people do has a geospatial component. We do everything
somewhere. Even thinking,” says Rich Gibson, self-taught computer geek and
co-author, along with Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh, of O’Reilly’s forthcoming
book Mapping Hacks, who believes that allowing normal people to
manage, present […]

When Jo and I did an IRC interview with New Scientist reporter Will Knight,
little did we know that his piece, entitled "The New Pioneers of Map
Making," would come out so… lyrical sounding:

ARMED with a Global Positioning System receiver and a pair of itchy feet, Jo Walsh walks a different route around town each week. She […]