Mental map of London
Mental map of London at Mauro Cherubini’s moleskine
Mauro posts about an interesting use of tags as applied to maps. This is one of the things that I’m interested in researching. I think it’s possible to develop an emergent and adaptable ontology of geographic spaces using tags. In order to do so, one needs to link information about the particular identity/role perspective in order to be able to interpret the tag appropriately. In this case, the identity would be Tourist.
There’s also an issue of visualization, I think. As you can see on the map, the tagcloud is superimposed on a map of a particular scale. Zooming in would help to disentangle the tagcloud and make the tags more readable, but we should be albe to scale the tagcloud as well so as to avoid the obfuscation of some tags by others. This is more problematic, of course, in that the number of tags could vary to a considerable degree, and the question arises as to whether we could ever provide a non-obfuscatory representation of tags when the number of tags is quite large.
Anyway, interesting stuff that is of interest to me.
Tags:emergent, folksonomies, geographic, geospatial, maps, ontologies, tagging tagsComments are off for this post
