Tag Archives: mapping

Blogathon 2009 – Seeing Cities in Maps

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as blogathon, Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, mapping, visualization, zeroperzero

A conceptual post around the tradeoffs of using social versus visual representations of space and information, with reference to the City of Regina Survival Guide and Map.

Blogathon 2009 – Check-in to the Vancouver Brightkite Meetup on Tuesday, July 28th

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, brightkite, geoweb 2009, mapping, runkeeper

The first) (of hopefully many) Vancouver Brightkite Users Meetup is taking place on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.

ChangeCamp Proposal – Old and New School Mapping in Vancouver

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Four dimensions, Ideas, Unconferences | tagged as changecamp, citizen collaboration, citizen sensing, common sense, geolocation, location awareness, mapping, mobile, urban informatics, vanchangecamp, youmap vancouver

I submitted this to the VanChangeCamp’s call for proposals last week (it’s also available in the ChangeCamp wiki):
Who is the intended audience?

Government leaders
Non-profits
General public

Brief description of the session:
I will moderate a session involving groups involved with mapping at the municipal, non-profit and citizen levels, to talk about what their interests in mapping [...]