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	Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.</ref>

	OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools"<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia.org Accessed Jan 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap</ref>. OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref> Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.		OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools".<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia.org Accessed Jan 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap</ref> OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref> Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.

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	Natural or political disasters can cause geographies to quickly change. During these disasters, no one at first knows what is going on. Routes that were formerly passible are no longer passible. Resource paths are disrupted and rivers may change course. Entire sections of a city may be walled off, and communication systems may completely suffer.		Natural or political disasters can cause geographies to quickly change. During these disasters, no one at first knows what is going on. Routes that were formerly passible are no longer passible. Resource paths are disrupted and rivers may change course. Entire sections of a city may be walled off, and communication systems may completely suffer.

	Real-time mapping tools and rapid communication systems can stitch back together the geographical ruptures. "Whether the cyborg-cartographer works from a helicopter or on the ground, he/she would combine reconnaissance with mapping (and disaster relief), as only the human brain could comprehend what is important to observe".<ref> Cyborg Cartographer Battles Spatial Amnesia http://embodiedspace.blogspot.com/2008/01/cyborg-cartographer-battles-spatial.html</ref>		Real-time mapping tools and rapid communication systems can stitch back together the geographical ruptures. "Whether the cyborg-cartographer works from a helicopter or on the ground, he/she would combine reconnaissance with mapping (and disaster relief), as only the human brain could comprehend what is important to observe".<ref>Stone, Lee Durham. Cyborg Cartographer Battles Spatial Amnesia. Published Jan 2008. Accessed Jan 2011. http://embodiedspace.blogspot.com/2008/01/cyborg-cartographer-battles-spatial.html</ref>

	===Collaborative Mapping===		===Collaborative Mapping===
	Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.</ref>

	OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap]. OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref> Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.		OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools"<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia.org Accessed Jan 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap</ref>. OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref> Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.

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	~~[[Image:melbourne-in-openstreetmap-december-2009.png\|300px\|right\|thumb\|Melbourne, Australia on [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap], December 2009.]]~~

	===Description===		===Description===
	Natural or political disasters can cause geographies to quickly change. During these disasters, no one at first knows what is going on. Routes that were formerly passible are no longer passible. Resource paths are disrupted and rivers may change course. Entire sections of a city may be walled off, and communication systems may completely suffer.		Natural or political disasters can cause geographies to quickly change. During these disasters, no one at first knows what is going on. Routes that were formerly passible are no longer passible. Resource paths are disrupted and rivers may change course. Entire sections of a city may be walled off, and communication systems may completely suffer.

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	===Collaborative Mapping===		===Collaborative Mapping===
	~~OpenStreetMap (OSM)~~ is a ~~collaborative project~~ to ~~create a free editable map of the world.~~ "~~Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices~~, ~~aerial photography~~, ~~other free sources or simply from local~~ knowledge". ~~"Registered users can upload GPS track logs~~ and ~~edit the vector data using the given editing tools" [http~~:~~//en.wikipedia~~.~~org/wiki~~/~~OpenStreetMap].~~		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.</ref>

	~~Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society~~ is a ~~“cartographic cyborg,” which is~~ to ~~say as someone~~ "~~so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say~~, ~~in terms of knowledge practices~~, ~~where embodied~~ knowledge ~~ends~~ and ~~technological knowledge begins~~".~~<ref>Piper, Karen~~. ~~Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity~~. ~~New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>~~		OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap]. OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref> Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.

	OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.~~<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref>~~

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	Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>

	OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that ~~recue~~ workers could find victims of the ~~eartquake~~ in Haiti. Before the ~~earthequake~~, ~~neight~~ Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref>		OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that rescue workers could find victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Before the earthquake, neither Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref>

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	Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>

	~~Uses of~~ OpenStreetMap ~~data~~ by ~~crisis responders~~		OpenStreetMap was by volunteers and relief workers to quickly fill-in absent geographies and road-systems so that recue workers could find victims of the eartquake in Haiti. Before the earthequake, neight Google Maps or Open Street Map had low-level road data in Haiti. Due to the open nature of OpenStreetMap, regular citizens could collaborate on filling it in, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people.<ref>OpenStreetMap. Wiki Project Haiti. Accessed April 22, 2011. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</ref>
	~~People on~~-the-~~ground~~ in Haiti ~~(and related organisations) are using (or used) our maps~~
	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti

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	Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>

			Uses of OpenStreetMap data by crisis responders
			People on-the-ground in Haiti (and related organisations) are using (or used) our maps
			http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti

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	[[Image:melbourne-in-openstreetmap-december-2009.png\|300px\|right\|thumb\|Melbourne, Australia on [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap], December 2009.]]		[[Image:melbourne-in-openstreetmap-december-2009.png\|300px\|right\|thumb\|Melbourne, Australia on [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap], December 2009.]]

	===Description===		===Description===
	~~"OpenStreetMap (OSM)~~ is ~~a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world~~.		Natural or political disasters can cause geographies to quickly change. During these disasters, no one at first knows what is going on. Routes that were formerly passible are no longer passible. Resource paths are disrupted and rivers may change course. Entire sections of a city may be walled off, and communication systems may completely suffer.

	~~"The maps~~ are ~~created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge~~. ~~Both rendered images~~ and ~~the vector graphics are available for download under~~ a ~~Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license"~~.

	"~~OpenStreetMap was inspired by sites such as Wikipedia;~~ the ~~map display features~~ a ~~prominent 'Edit' tab~~ and ~~a full revision history~~ is ~~maintained~~. ~~Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools" [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.~~org~~/~~wiki~~/~~OpenStreetMap]~~.		Real-time mapping tools and rapid communication systems can stitch back together the geographical ruptures. "Whether the cyborg-cartographer works from a helicopter or on the ground, he/she would combine reconnaissance with mapping (and disaster relief), as only the human brain could comprehend what is important to observe".<ref> Cyborg Cartographer Battles Spatial Amnesia http://embodiedspace.blogspot.com/2008/01/cyborg-cartographer-battles-spatial.html</ref>

	===~~Cyborg Cartography~~===		===Collaborative Mapping===
	~~"In~~ the ~~case of [a] disaster~~.~~..nobody knows at first what is going on--what has been destroyed~~, ~~what has not, what obstructions are in the way of transportation routes~~, and ~~so on--this capability would be extremely valuable (an understatement). Whether~~ the ~~cyborg-cartographer works from a helicopter or on~~ the ~~ground, he/she would combine reconnaissance with mapping (and disaster relief), as only the human brain could comprehend what is important to observe~~"~~.<ref>~~http://~~embodiedspace~~.~~blogspot~~.~~com~~/~~2008~~/~~01/cyborg-cartographer-battles-spatial~~.~~html Cyborg Cartographer Battles Spatial Amnesia</ref>~~		OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. "Maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography, other free sources or simply from local knowledge". "Registered users can upload GPS track logs and edit the vector data using the given editing tools" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap].

	Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>		Literature professor Karen Pipe argues that the inhabitant of modern, western society is a “cartographic cyborg,” which is to say as someone "so thoroughly intertwined with mapping technologies that it is impossible to say, in terms of knowledge practices, where embodied knowledge ends and technological knowledge begins".<ref>Piper, Karen. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002</ref>

	~~===External Links===~~
	*[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap]
	*[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Places OpenStreetMap Places]

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