Maps, Satellites and Participatory Geography in

the Digital Age

Bill Morris - Cartographer

Question #1

What are we looking at here? 1.  A Cruise Ship

Dock 2.  A Tennis Racket 3.  The edge of a

glacier 4.  A Fish Farm 5.  A discarded hair

net

Crisis Mapping & Ushahidi

Irene

OpenStreetmap

Humanitarian OpenStreetmap Team

1,700 Contributors - 4,700,000 features added

Under it all: satellite imagery

Question #2

When was the first image of the Earth’s surface taken from above?

1.  1946 2.  1968 3.  1883 4.  1860

1860 – Boston From a Balloon – James Wallace Black

1909 – Carrier Pigeon

1946 – First Image of Earth From Space (taken from a V2 rocket)

1960 – Corona Spy Satellite

1972 - Landsat

2000 - MODIS

2001 - Quickbird

2010 – Balloons again

2013 - Drones

Satellites for Environmental Monitoring

What can we see from a satellite?

Monitoring on a Global Scale

Mapping in the 21st Century

Participating

Crowdsourcing & Data Quality

Cartographic Ethics

Getting Involved

•  OpenStreetmap •  Humanitarian OpenStreetmap Team •  TomNod •  Grassroots Mapping