Illustrations

Figures

1.1Ebstorf map (c.13th century)

1.2Detail of the upper-right edge of the Ebstorf map

1.3The Dresden Codex, the oldest surviving Mayan manuscript (c.13th or 14th century)

1.4The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer (c.1668–9)

1.5Cassini map of Paris (1750–1818)

1.6The Brandt Line, dividing the world into the ‘developed’ global North and the ‘developing’ global South

1.7Thematic map of families with daily income of over 200 USD

2.1The model of a human activity system

2.2Participatory maps as objects of activity

2.3Participatory maps as mediators of activity

2.4The dual role of participatory maps in the context of activity systems

3.1Spaces of entertainment discovered by collaborative mapping in the III Municipality of Rome: an internal condominium courtyard

8.1Supervizor search engine

8.2Financial flow analysis of public spending enabled by Erar

8.3Financial flow analysis in relation to the change of government

8.4Financial flow analysis in relation to the change of government

8.5Who Influences? Visualisation of the network of lobbying contacts

8.6Parlameter search engine

8.7Legislative Activity Violation Counter

8.8Map of Ljubljana with the locations of the CCTV cameras

8.9Map of Ljubljana marking the frequency of traffic ticketing

8.10Example of a post on Zlovenija: enlarged Facebook profile picture accompanied by the hateful comment expressed by that particular individual

9.1Uganda refugee settlements, March 2018

9.2OSM participatory triangulation

9.3Waterpoints in Arua

9.4Training at UNHCR (Arua): local sub-county councillor, MSF worker, local teacher and refugee learn open-source GIS together

9.5Surveyor Philliam checking the OSMAnd App and his ODK surveys, with the blank paper map at hand

9.6Local people, local tech: mobile infrastructures are more resilient. Smartphone charging in the field

9.7Surveyor: Harriet uses WhatsApp to report local detail and takes a geo-tagged photo of a riverbed, dug-out in desperation by drought-ridden villagers, as an informal public amenity. OpenStreetMap Key and Tag conventions will be attributed: ‘man_made’ = ‘unprotected_well’. Locals, who will hold situated knowledge about their shared resource, are encouraged to contribute to attribution details in OSM.

9.8 This (Formal) Public Amenity – a borehole with handpump (‘Bush Pump’) would be ‘coded’ in OpenStreetMap with the conventions of Key and Tag respectively. In this instance, ‘man_made’ = ‘water_well’, and ‘pump’=’yes’

9.9Community-witnessed data on water supply in the Bidibidi settlement, Yumbe, Northern Uganda.

Tables

3.1The matrix of spatialities

3.2The matrix of spatialities: spaces of urban commuting

8.1Citizen data scientist tools