ABSTRACT

Geographers, cartographers, and related social scientists are increasingly locating the (geo)politics of the vernacular within volunteered geographic information, the geoweb, and other digital technologies that enable the production of new maps. We instead focus our attention on ‘old’ cartographic practices. We contend that map-based community activism and geopolitics continue to occur in ways that much research has left behind in its shifted attention toward digital geographies. We conceptualize vernacular counter-mapping, as practiced by Grow Calgary a community urban farm located on public land, by focusing on vernacular cartographic method and mode. We argue first that the vernacular exists not just in the production of new maps but also in the practice of altering and re-narrating existing maps, and, second, that the vernacular exists not just in the new modes of VGI and distributed/crowdsourced data production, but in the mode of leveraging official, static state maps to make legible situated knowledges.

摘要

地理学家，制图师和相关的社会科学家越来越多地将本地语言（地理）政治定位在自愿生成的地理信息，地理网络和其他能够生成新地图的数字技术中。相反，我们将注意力集中在“旧的”制图方法上。我们认为，基于地图的社区行动主义和地缘政治继续以许多研究都转移到数字地理领域的方式留下来。我们通过关注白话制图方法和模式来概念化白话反制图，这是由位于公共土地上的社区城市农场Grow Calgary所实践的。我们首先认为，白话不仅存在于新地图的制作中，而且还存在于更改和重新叙述现有地图的实践中；其次，白话不仅存在于VGI的新模式和分布式/众包数据中生产，但以利用官方的静态地图的方式来使位置知识清晰可辨。