GI Management Transformation: from geometry to databased

relationships

Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D InitiativesTuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University & Programmable City, Maynooth University

How is the city translated into software and data?

Programmable City Project

Translation:City into Code/Data

Transduction:Code/Data Reshape

City

THE CITYSOFTWARE/DATA

Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models

Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, RegulationHow do software and data reshape the city?

Socio-technological data assemblage

Material Platform(infrastructure – hardware)

Code Platform(operating system)

Code/algorithms (software)

Data(base)

Interface

Reception/Operation (user/usage)

Systems of thought Forms of knowledge

Finance Political economies

Governmentalities & legalities Organisations and institutions Subjectivities and communities

Marketplace

System/process performs a task

Contextframes the system/task

Digital socio-technical assemblage

HCI, remediation studiesCritical code studies

Software studiesCritical data studies

New media studiesgame studies

Critical Social ScienceScience Technology

Studies

Platform studies

Places

Practices

Flowline/Lifecycle

The Data Revolution, Rob Kitchin, 2014.

Prime 2 Models and Concepts

Skin of the earth ‘real world’ object modelling

5 skin of the earth objects Ways Water Vegetation Artificial Exposed

Z-Layer Superimposed Objects Segmentation &

Connectivity GDF1 GDF2

centrelines Sites & Locals Boundaries

Links objects using persistent ID’s

Form & Function object classification

3D data storage (CityGML LOD2)

Grouped

Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons tha cover the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons tha cover the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

Cassini, 6”, 1st ed. Circa?

Heuston station across time

Cassini 6”, 1943-44

Heuston station across time

Cassini 25”, 1st ed, Circa? Cassini25”, 1936

Heuston station across time

Heuston Station, Prime2 MapGenie

Heuston Station, Prime2 SOE

Evolution

Institutionally Colonial surveyor Military Mapping

Organization Civil Service

National Mapping Organization (NMO)

State Body NMO Will become a

NMO w/in Tailte Éireann

Technologically Data collection Techniques Scale Geometry Skill Technologies Dissemination

Scope Colonial mapping National mapping Post Colonial

mapping OSi/OSNI/OSGB EU / Inspire / NSDI Global

Socio-technological transformation

Etymology

Etymology

Etymology

Etymology

Relationality

Genealogy of a model

Genealogy of a Model

Genealogy of a model

Genealogy of a data model

Models are also actors Models shape

how the world is viewed the world of work tools & techniques the structure of an organization how organizations interconnect with others

Models augment space Models are socially constructed

by people

Models are also actors Models shape

how the world is viewed the world of work tools & techniques the structure of an organization how organizations interconnect with others

Models augment space Models are socially constructed

by people

Models are also actors Models shape

how the world is viewed the world of work tools & techniques the structure of an organization how organizations interconnect with others

Models augment space Models are socially constructed

by people

Ontologizing the City - From Old School National Cartographic Based Classification toward a Rules

Based Real-World Object Oriented National Database

Object of Study Data assemblage of OSi PRIME2 Examine how ‘real’ things are

understood in the new object oriented data model

Assess if these change how space is modelled and then acted upon

Time frame Jan. 2015-2018

Data Management and Ethics ERC Maynooth University SSHRC Tri-Council

Case Study Outputs Case study report Data assemblage Tracing the production of space Genealogy from class to object Academic publications

Funding Programmable City Project

P.I. Prof. Rob Kitchin NIRSA, Maynooth University

European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award

ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY

Data Collection

Attend OSi & 1Spatial Road shows and public speaking eventsOne day coordinated field trip & group interviews at OSi Sligo (survey data capture unit)Examine the Prime & Prime2 flow linesReal-time survey and data update of a building

1.5 months as an embedded researcher, OSi in Phoenix Park One-on-one interviews with key actors (Transcribed audio

recordings): Group interview Document Collection Collection of objects across time for Dublin

Acknowledgements

The research for this paper was funded by a European Research Council Advanced

Investigator award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.

I would like to express my gratitude to all at Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) for generously

sharing their knowledge and time.