46th Annual SoC Summer School
8-10th Sept 2010
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PROGRAMME
| Wednesday 8th Sept | ||
| 13-30 | Conference Opening | |
| 13.45 - 15.15 |
Mapping Manchester |
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Terry Wyke (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
Mapping Cottonopolis | |
| Martin Dodge (University of Manchester) | Knowing infrastructures: mapping the hidden city | |
| Andrew Taylor (Andrew Taylor Maps) | Mapping change in Manchester | |
| 15.45 - 1715 |
Maps and geopolitics |
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Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield) |
What would an alternative school world atlas contain | |
| Peter Vujakovic (Canterbury Christ Church University) | Media mapping: geopolitical representations | |
| Chris Perkins (University of Manchester) | The mutability of Soviet mapping | |
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Thursday 9th Sept |
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| 9.00 -10.30 |
Transport Mapping |
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Andrew Smithers (Project Mapping) |
Innovation and craft in transport diagrams | |
| Anne-Louise Fryers and Nick Gould (Greater Manchester Transport Campaign) | On your bike! Mapping cycle routes in Greater Manchester | |
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| 11.00 - 12.30 |
Delegate's sessions : Steve Chilton |
What is happening with OpenSreetMap? |
| 13.30 -15.00 | Everyday mapping | |
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Loreto Saavedra (Complutense University, Madrid) |
Community web mapping: everyday use of Bdebarna | |
| Damien O'Doherty (University of Manchester) | Spaced-Out in the City | |
| Tina Richardson (University of Leeds) | Challenging Anti-Production: Schizocartography as Method and Practice | |
| 15.30 -17.00 |
Artography |
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Emma Kerry, Helen Parsons and Naomi Hurrell (University of Manchester) |
Embodied mapping of Platt Fields | |
| Gavin MacDonald (Manchester Metropolitan University) | Mapping practices of artists: placing GPS | |
| Third Angel & Mala Voadora | What I heard about the world : research map | |
| Friday 10th Sept | ||
| 09.00 -10.30 |
OS OpenData |
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Bob Barr (MGL) |
OS OpenData consultation: the politics of empowerment? | |
| Andy Robinson (OSM) | Why OSM won't be bulk importing OS OpenData | |
| Richard Fairhurst (Waterways World) | Making maps with Ordnance Survey OpenData | |
| 11.00 -12.30 |
Crowdsourcing and Open Data |
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| Ollie O'Brien (University College London) | OpenStreetMap - the quality issue | |
| Richard Stirling (data.gov.uk) | The data sharing revolution and the data.gov.uk initiative | |
| Stuart Grant (geo.me) | Layering open data onto web maps | |
| 13.30 -14.00 |
Gary Gale (Nokia) |
Welcome To The World Of The Geo Data Silo; Where Closed Data Is Open And Open Data Is Closed |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Panel discussion "All this data is good, but what about the cartography?" | Panelists include: Bob Barr, Richard Fairhurst and Gary Gale |
| 15.00 |
Close of conference |
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