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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] topic change - morals article |
| Date: |
01/12/2007 10:05:01 AM |
| From: |
Jesse Cleary |
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Nice thread David -
Be sure to look into the work that Geographers are doing around these
themes. Integrating a social theory approach from anthropology and
sociology into the construction and representation of space - often from
a critical perspective. The work that John Pickles is doing is
certainly relevant here - /A History of Spaces: Cartographic reason,
mapping and the geo-coded world/ and //
/Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information
Systems/./ /I'm partial to his work - he's on my soccer team - but
there are many others writing in this area...
Jesse
David Lamb wrote:
> That was a really interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
>
> I think it brings up another set of questions too. Sorry for yet
> another post, at least it makes it easier to know which emails to delete
> :). There's a good book called How to Lie with Maps. It talks about
> Cartography's dark history. I think Ethics is one area that GIS can
> borrow a lot of the literature from Cartography.
>
> One topic that has come up in the US news recently is Gerrymandering
> (http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17681982&BRD=1170&PAG=46
> 1&dept_id=7021&rfi=6). I'm sure GIS plays a role in this. In a
> situation like Gerrymandering what is the ethical responsibility of a
> GIS Technician or Analyst? Is there any ethics involved at that level?
> It's easy to place responsibility on a higher up, but does a technician
> hold any of the responsibility. GIS has taken on a role of the sort of
> neutral party, unbiased, but it can still only respond to the questions
> we ask it. Think of redlining as another example.
>
> What about other Ethical considerations? Is their ethics involved in
> maintaining high data quality and performing error checking?
>
> Another example from Dick Boyd's post:
> "Many are users of the Census Bureau's TIGER data sets. TIGER has
> numerous breaks in roads. Not a big problem for a census taker, as they
> are most likely local and are hired for knowing the roads. But what of
> an ambulance service that hires drivers from out of the area? Do the
> Emergency Service Offices proof their data sets for application?"
>
>
> I don't really have any answers to these questions, but I'd love to hear
> any responses (or examples).
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Brast
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:14 PM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Subject: Re: [gislist] topic change
>
> I think the article referenced in the URL below goes pretty well with
> this discussion:
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/14534/
>
>
> Marcus W. Brast
> IT Manager/Senior GIS Analyst
> Berg-Oliver Associates, Inc.
> 14701 St. Mary's Lane, Suite 400
> Houston, TX 77079
> Work: 281-589-0898 ext. 30
> Mobile: 832-335-5094
> Fax: 281-589-0007
> mbrast@bergoliver.com
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of David Lamb
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:09 PM
> To: Chris Bevilacqua: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Subject: Re: [gislist] topic change
>
> Good point! It doesn't seem to carry over into our day to day lives.
>
> I do think that maps (slightly different topic) do impact the way we
> conceptualize the world and our view of space. Maps are made of the
> "geographic primitives". Perhaps as adults we can start to separate the
> representations from reality better. I've seen examples of third
> graders told to draw a map of the world, and they put Alaska in the
> lower left-hand side of the United States. Or ask a group of 2nd
> graders where north is, and the
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