Description
The world is experiencing a widespread and accelerated geodigitalization. Everything that can be located on Earth now seems to be transcribed into digital data. This data has become pervasive across all technical systems. Spatial data is at the heart of territorial governance, social interactions and cultural practices. It is transforming knowledge and contributing to the emergence of new professions.
Geographic information technologies, geomatics and digital cartography are central to this evolution, even though if their presence is diffuse and the systems in which they are embedded remain opaque.
Geospatial Technologies and Society analyzes the use of digital geographic information in various fields by different actors, opening up numerous avenues for reflection and research. This book invites us to overcome the “technological somnambulism” that characterizes our era and to develop and multiply critical approaches in geomatics and geographic information sciences to better understand – and transform – the geospatial world that we are collectively creating.
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Colette CAUVIN-REYMOND
Introduction. The Spatial Dimension of Digital Transformation xvii
Thierry JOLIVEAU and Matthieu NOUCHER
Chapter 1. Understanding the Geospatial Factory 1
Thierry JOLIVEAU
1.1. Introduction 1
1.2. The making of the geospatial factory 2
1.3. Geodigitalization as replication 6
1.4. Geodigitalization as an operating matrix 10
1.5. Conclusion 20
1.6. References 21
Chapter 2. Algorithmics at the Heart of Web-based Geographic Data Production 27
Teriitutea QUESNOT
2.1. The genesis of geographic "data" 27
2.2. Social web platforms and the proliferation of "capta" 31
2.3. From geospatial footprints to geographic "quaesita" 35
2.4. Deconstructing our (geo)digital footprints: pipe dreams and realities 40
2.5. Conclusion 49
2.6. References 50
Chapter 3. From a Database to a Digital Commons: The OpenStreetMap Project 55
Boris MERICSKAY
3.1. Introduction 55
3.2. The OSM project: its history and how it works 57
3.3. A decentralized, organized and diverse community 62
3.4. OSM and the professional sphere 67
3.5. Some major challenges for OSM in mapping and geomatics 72
3.6. Conclusion 81
3.7. References 82
Chapter 4. Maps and Geographic Information in Planning 89
Juliette DAVRET
4.1. Introduction 89
4.2. Impact of digitization on planning: a historical perspective 91
4.3. Geographic information lifecycle in planning 95
4.4. Information and participation 99
4.5. Digital planning: challenges and opportunities 105
4.6. Conclusion 110
4.7. References 111
Chapter 5. GIS Dissemination Facing Territorial Disparity 117
Grégoire FEYT
5.1. Introduction 117
5.2. From national puzzle to urban patchwork 121
5.3. Territories that are structurally unequal in their capacity for self-knowledge 130
5.4. The dissemination and place of GIS within territories 133
5.5. Territorial data: a new frontier for geomatics specialists? 144
5.6. Conclusion: toward a convergence between geonumerical sciences and territorial sciences 146
5.7. Acronyms 149
5.8. References 151
Chapter 6. On the Intersection of Geomatics and Digital Humanities 153
Juliette MOREL and Baptiste HAUTDIDIER
6.1. Introduction 153
6.2. Digitally spatializing the humanities 156
6.3. Digitizing the humanities space 162
6.4. Humanizing the digital space 169
6.5. Conclusion 174
6.6. References 175
Chapter 7. Uses and Unconsidered Aspects of Geographic Data in OSINT Investigations 181
Allan DENEUVILLE
7.1. Introduction 181
7.2. Investigations and maps 184
7.3. Truth regimes and maps 190
7.4. The risk of technological and political determinism 194
7.5. Conclusion 197
7.6. References 197
Chapter 8. Exploring Geospatial Technology Imaginaries 201
Thierry JOLIVEAU
8.1. Introduction 201
8.2. From sociotechnical imaginaries to a geo-technical imaginary 202
8.3. Inventorying fictional imagery of geospatial technologies 207
8.4. Several facets of the fictional imaginary of geospatial technologies. 212
8.5. Findings, limitations, outlook and conclusion 224
8.6. Acknowledgments 231
8.7. References 232
8.8. Works analyzed or mentioned 235
Conclusion. Escaping Geospatial Somnambulism Through Criticism 237
Thierry JOLIVEAU and Matthieu NOUCHER List of Authors 245
Index 247
