Christopher Schmidt: “There isn’t one map of the world”
There isn’t one map of the world.
Anyone who has worked with maps for a while knows this — that the process of making a map is something that is creative in form, and that all of the pieces that go into it play a major role in what comes out.
…each aerial image is a creative work, prepared via a certain process and attempting to achieve certain goals.
There are too many different views of the world to make them all work equally well. Let’s get it so that people can build *their* view of the world arond them first, and then move on, rather than trying to come at it the other way…
To that end, I am actively putting my money where my mouth is: my hope
is to spend the next couple weeks building a service which allows users
to build a local view of the world around them, combining the imagery
available in OAM in the way that they see fit. (This work has been
started in https://github.com/crschmidt/mosaic-webui ; it’s far from
done, but progress is happening.) I’m also exploring the use of
MapMill and MapKnitter, two great tools for helping build better
maps using highly local imagery.
– Christopher Schmidt on the OAM-talk list
