Humorous look at OpenStreetMap jargon

1. Not entirely helpful...
...OpenStreetMap
Jargon Buster

2. Double meanings

3. Neogeography
Neogeographers
Neogeo

4. Someone who likes making
maps but can't explain
projections or datums...

6. Long tail mappers

9. Micro Mapping tipping point
The point when most edits are made
on 'trivial' map features

10. Mapping tipping point
● 0 lat 0 lon – the point where mapping rubbish is
tipped:
Node: 1974081513
● View area on larger map
● Edit area▾
● View node on larger map
● Edit node▾ Edited at: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:10:27 +0000
● Edited by: Tiegerente
● Version: 1
● In changeset: 13560561
● Comment: Verbindungstunnel zum Radweg
● Coordinates: 0.0, 0.0

11. Mapping tipping point
● 0 lat 0 lon – the point where mapping rubbish is
tipped:
Node: 1974081513
● View area on larger map
● Edit area▾
● View node on larger map
● Edit node▾ Edited at: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:10:27 +0000
● Edited by: Tiegerente
● Version: 1
● In changeset: 13560561
● Comment: Verbindungstunnel zum Radweg
● Coordinates: 0.0, 0.0

13. Mapping Bermuda Triangle

14. Buckfast triangle:
Over 70% of worldwide Buckfast sales are
made in the Buckfast Triangle, the area of
Central Scotland which is the towns of Airdrie,
Coatbridge and Cumbernauld and everywhere
in between - Uncyclopedia

17. cargo cult
After World War II, when the residents of these regions observed the Japanese and American
combatants bringing in large amounts of matériel. When the war ended, the military bases closed
and the flow of goods and materials ceased. In an attempt to attract further deliveries of goods,
followers of the cults engaged in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips,
aircraft and radio equipment, and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military
personnel operating them.

18. Cargo cult programming:
Cargo cult programming is a style of computer
programming that is characterized by the ritual
inclusion of code or program structures that
serve no real purpose

19. Cargo cult mapping:
highway=footway
foot=yes

22. Geographically challenged
● Lots of people on twitter highlight this problem...

23. Is there water between
London and Scotland?! I'm
clueless. I still picture the
New Zealand map in my
head when I think of the UK.
@CatLoughnane

24. Fully grown man asking me
why the Scottish speak
weird and where Scotland is
on the map 'is it near
dover?' Umm no its not
#soweird @kiirstendaviies

25. 'we only have a map of
great britain, how are we
supposed to get around
scotland?' - mum.

26. I actually believed Wales was in
Scotland. Then looked at a map to
find out that Wales is nowhere near
Scotland kmt >.<
@WhoAreYouThough

27. Just followed @OSMScotland and
now I am having such fun adding
the local restaurants I know
*squealsWithExcitement*
#easilyAmused @GillHamilton

30. Mapping Scotland on the map of Scotland...

32. ● Robot mappers
● Bot mappers

34. VGI – Volunteered Geographic Data
Crowd-sourcing

35. My take: in 2007 "crowdsourcing" as a term still
felt dirty and unacademic. Otherwise Goodchild
would have coined CrowdsourcedGI
#geowebchat @mappingmashups

36. ● Own your data
● Access to the data for free
● Identified as a contributor
● Join and run the organisation
● Free and fun events
● Given opportunity stand-up and talk about the
data

37. Thank
● You
● All
● For
● Listening