Abstract
Although the emergence of collaborative online mapping platforms has radically lowered access barriers to cartographic practices, many studies have shown how participation in online mapping is biased socially towards more privileged groups and geographically towards higher income regions. Yet, exclusion-mechanisms beyond those socio-economic divides have hardly been considered so far. Adding one such possible cause of social exclusion that is not directly linked to socio-economic factors, this paper makes an argument for the consideration of cartographic epistemologies. We illustrate the exclusion-mechanisms of cartographic epistemologies through two exemplary case studies, focusing on the ground-truth agenda of OSM and on Wikimapia's endeavor to describe the world.
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Obwohl die Zugangsbarrieren zu kartographischen Praktiken durch kollaborative Onlinemapping-plattformen stark gesenkt wurden, haben zahlreiche Studien gezeigt, dass die Teilnahme an Online-mapping von sozialen und geographischen Ungleichheiten geprägt ist, zugunsten privilegierter Gruppen und einkommensstarker Regionen. Dabei wurden jedoch bislang kaum Exklusionsmechanismen jenseits sozio-ökonomischer Trennlinien diskutiert. Wir plädieren daher für die Berücksichtigung kartographischer Epistemologien als eine weitere Ursache sozialer Exklusion. Wir diskutieren die Exklusionsmechnismen kartogrophischer Epistemologien anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen — dem Ground-Truth-Ansatz von OpenStreetMap und Wikimapias Bestreben, die Welt zu beschreiben.
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Bittner, C., Glasze, G. Excluding Effects of Cartographic Epistemologies — Thinking About Mapping Paradigms in OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia. j. Cartogr. Geogr. inf. 68, 120–126 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03544554
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