Mapping Edibles
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Hey Maptimers!
We are back and happy to announce that we have a brand new event coming up, with many of the speakers from the event we had to cancel in December. Everyone is healthy again now, and we are super excited to hear their presentations! Woo hoo!
We will be learning about how to map edibles in the city, how early Islamic maps were made, as well as presenting a mapping method to make sexual diversity visible - also outside the Western world.
There's sure to be something for everyone! Here is the line up:
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Mapping Edibles (by Mundraub - https://mundraub.org/)
mundraub was started as a online tool to map an edible landscape. This simple idea became a catalyst to start a movement and to build a community that has changed our view on urban green. It affects decision making in city councils. We talk about this journey from the very beginning to now.
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Mapping in the time of manuscripts (Nadja Danilenko - @NadjaDanilenko)
Imagine you've travelled from Asia to the Middle East and you want to capture your experience on a map. However, it's the year 930 and you only have your memory, pen and paper at your disposal. The talk presents the earliest maps from the Islamicate world (safeguarded in al-Istakhri's "Book of Routes and Realms," 10th c.) and investigates what idea of space they communicated.
Dr. Nadja Danilenko is a postdoc in Islamic Studies at FU Berlin, focusing on cartography and the history of knowledge in the Islamicate world. Nadja broadcasts a German podcast about Islamic cultural history and sings in a choir ("Terz mit Herz").
You can check out their (German) podcast here: https://tellmeahistory.net
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Mapping Sexualities (Chris Hiller)
When geography took sexualities into account in the 1990’s, researchers started mapping gay neighborhoods. Not only were lesbians and other forms of sexualities neglected by mostly male cis-gender researchers but also constructivist ideas from gender and queer studies were not implemented. By combining mental maps and subjective experiences of safety, the talk is going to present a mapping method to make sexual diversity visible - also outside the Western world.
Chris Hiller is a Ph.D. candidate in Human Geography at the University of Potsdam focusing on sexualities, space, and power. In her research project on safe spaces for sexual diversity, s*he is developing an empirical method with a constructivist approach to map sexualities.
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Tool time: Geocoding with Open Refine
Geocoding is the process of taking an address (or many) and finding the correct pair of geo-coordinates (i.e.latitude, longitude) for that location. We often need to do this when we want to put specific locations on a map, but only have the address.
In this short “tool time” tutorial, Alsino (https://twitter.com/alsinosko) will show you a quick and easy way to geocode large numbers of locations using Open Refine and the Nominatim API, which is an Open Source geocoder based on OpenStreetMap. If you would like to take part in the tutorial, please install Open Refine on your computer in advance (http://openrefine.org/download.html).
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As always, we invite anyone who is interested in the world of mapping to attend our Meetup, especially beginners!
Thanks to our sponsor "Büro am Draht (https://dasburo.com/)" we will also have some snacks and drinks for you.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!