Plotting practices and politics: (Im)mutable narratives in OpenStreetMap

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 304-317

  Perkins, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(im)mutability; Collaborative cartography; Crowd sourcing; Mapping; OpenStreetMap; Practice

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; HEGEMONY; INTERNET; MAPPING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POWER RELATIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84896106097     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12022     Document Type: Article

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