Occupy visualized - open data?

[Heather Morrison-2]

Guardian article - Occupy protests around the world - full list  
visualized:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map?CMP=twt_gu

Heather Morrison

[Glen Newton]

I'm glad they are collecting the data (and making it available), but
to throw a set of dots down on a map and call it a visualization is
stretching it.
I'd be more comfortable calling it 'mapping the occupy movement'.

(And yes, purists will want to correct me and tell me that mapping IS
visualization. Yeah. It is.)

-Glen Newton

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Heather Morrison <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Guardian article - Occupy protests around the world - full list visualized:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map?CMP=twt_gu
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[Tracey P. Lauriault]

i would go one step further and call it positioning the movement, as
it is just locating it and nor really mapping it!

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm glad they are collecting the data (and making it available), but
> to throw a set of dots down on a map and call it a visualization is
> stretching it.
> I'd be more comfortable calling it 'mapping the occupy movement'.
>
> (And yes, purists will want to correct me and tell me that mapping IS
> visualization. Yeah. It is.)
>
> -Glen Newton
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Heather Morrison <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Guardian article - Occupy protests around the world - full list visualized:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map?CMP=twt_gu
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[Glen Newton]

Ha-ha! Corrected by the ultra-purist!  ;-)

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> i would go one step further and call it positioning the movement, as
> it is just locating it and nor really mapping it!
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I'm glad they are collecting the data (and making it available), but
>> to throw a set of dots down on a map and call it a visualization is
>> stretching it.
>> I'd be more comfortable calling it 'mapping the occupy movement'.
>>
>> (And yes, purists will want to correct me and tell me that mapping IS
>> visualization. Yeah. It is.)
>>
>> -Glen Newton
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Heather Morrison <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Guardian article - Occupy protests around the world - full list visualized:
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map?CMP=twt_gu
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[Alan McConchie]

For those interested in other maps/positionings of the movement worldwide, I'm assembling a list here: http://mappingmashups.net/occupymaps/

I'm also collecting any maps of the camps themselves. I've put a few hand drawn maps of Occupy Oakland and Occupy SF on that page, and I tried mapping the tents of Occupy Vancouver into OpenStreetMap here: http://osm.org/go/WJQrHZ5Cs--

Alan

On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Glen Newton wrote:

> Ha-ha! Corrected by the ultra-purist!  ;-)
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> i would go one step further and call it positioning the movement, as
>> it is just locating it and nor really mapping it!
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> I'm glad they are collecting the data (and making it available), but
>>> to throw a set of dots down on a map and call it a visualization is
>>> stretching it.
>>> I'd be more comfortable calling it 'mapping the occupy movement'.
>>>
>>> (And yes, purists will want to correct me and tell me that mapping IS
>>> visualization. Yeah. It is.)
>>>
>>> -Glen Newton
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Heather Morrison <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> Guardian article - Occupy protests around the world - full list visualized:
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/oct/17/occupy-protests-world-list-map?CMP=twt_gu
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