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Who owns the Map Legend

2005· article· en· W1577489858 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSocio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVocabularyLegendComputer scienceCognitive mapNegotiationBridging (networking)Citizen journalismData scienceGeographyLinguisticsWorld Wide WebCognitionSociologySocial scienceArchaeologyPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Introduction are media in cartographic or digital formats. Communication occurs mainly by way of symbols that need to be interpreted via the map legend and its graphic vocabulary. Lacking universal standards, each map has its own visual language. This language--or enough of it--has to be common property in order for communication of any kind to take place. This ad hoc language has become increasingly important since maps have been used in the contexts of interactive processes aimed at bridging barriers among stakeholders having different backgrounds, perspectives, and communication patterns. Intellectual ownership of such language and the content of knowledge that it communicates, are critical factors in determining the success of the processes to which mapping and maps are put. Based on literature review and case studies done in developing countries in the contexts of participatory planning and territorial negotiations, this paper analyzes the roles of the legend--and the processes that lead to its composition--in determining the intellectual ownership of spatial information visualised in the form of maps. Mapping And Participatory Processes Historical Perspective Mapping is fundamental way for displaying spatial human cognition. It is representational medium that both has history and is part of the practice of history. (Herrington 2003) For centuries and increasingly with the advent of Geographic Information Technologies and Systems (GIT&S), graphic representations of part or the whole of Earth in cartographic, electronic, 2- or 3-dimensional formats have been playing significant roles as media (Sui and Goodchild 2001) used to store, display, and convey information, and as basis of analysis and decision making. In the past, maps have been made primarily to serve precise tasks, such as describing discoveries, navigating space, defining boundaries, registering ownership, and locating resources. In the early 1990s, Monmonier (1996, 2) wrote that a single map is one of an indefinitely large number of graphical models of the spatial aspects of reality that might be produced for the same situation or from the same data. Changes have occurred since GIT&S have increasingly become accessible to civil society and graphic representations of space have been used as channels for two-way communication purposes to support social learning, dialogue, and negotiation processes. In March 2004, more than 200 representatives from indigenous groups attended the International Forum on Indigenous Mapping in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, sharing the motto: Maps are more than pieces of paper. They are stories, conversations, lives and songs lived out in place, and are inseparable from the political and cultural contexts in which they are used. (Warren 2004) The participatory use of maps started in the late 1980s. At that time, development practitioners were inclined to adopt PRA sketch mapping tools (Mascarenhas 199 1) rather than venturing into more complex, demanding, and time-consuming scale mapping. This was because preference was given to eliciting village dynamics and to facilitating communication between insiders and outsiders (researchers), rather than to courses of action enabling communities to interact efficiently with policy makers. In addition, in many developing countries, aerial photography, satellite imagery, and official, large-scale topographic maps were under governmental control and their access restricted because of national security concerns. The situation changed in the 1990s, with the diffusion of modern GIT&S including geographic information systems (GIS), low-cost global positioning systems (GPS), remote sensing image analysis software, open access to data via the Internet, and the steadily decreasing cost of hardware. Spatial data, previously controlled by government institutions became progressively more accessible to and mastered by non-governmental and community-based organisations, minority groups, and sectors of society traditionally disenfranchised by maps and marginalized from decision-making processes (Fox 2003). …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.296
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it