{"id":1592,"date":"2010-05-18T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-05-18T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:31:42","slug":"mapping-geotags-confirmation-of-our-propensity-to-navel-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/05\/mapping-geotags-confirmation-of-our-propensity-to-navel-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Geotags: confirmation of our propensity to navel-gaze."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">What would one notice if a map was created based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/dec\/02\/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\">geographical entries in Wikepedia<\/a>?  A confirmation that &#8220;we&#8221; [viz., the countries in dark red below] are more interested in ourselves than other places.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1593\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/geotagged-articles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1593\" title=\"geotagged articles\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/geotagged-articles-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/geotagged-articles-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/geotagged-articles.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia world map geotagged by Mark Graham from The Guardian<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This may be obvious, and not necessarily self-serving, but it does point to our lack of knowledge of other places and peoples.  In any event, the visualization of this information is a pointed reminder that much of the world isn&#8217;t even involved as part of the conversation on knowledge and information.  If nothing else, we should remember this when we speak of &#8220;the greater good&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">What would one notice if a map was created based on the geographical entries in Wikepedia? A confirmation that &#8220;we&#8221; [viz., the countries in dark red below] are more interested in ourselves than other places.<\/p>\n<p>This may be obvious, and not necessarily self-serving, but it does point to our lack of knowledge of other places and peoples. In any event, the visualization of this information is a pointed reminder that much of the world isn&#8217;t even involved as part of the conversation on knowledge and information. If nothing else, we should remember this when we speak of &#8220;the greater good&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,44,133,71,115],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-culture","tag-knowledge","tag-mapping","tag-maps","tag-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}