Computer Models for Social Change

We are hosting WhereCamp Montreal, on October 23. Click here to sign up.

What is WhereCamp?

"Society is being transformed by new maps and new mapping technology. Our mission is to help create a free forum for people to talk about, present, explore, and learn about projects that involve place."

WhereCamp is the unconference for hackers, mappers, thinkers, artists and anybody who wants to know their place. Hot on the heels of Geomatique 2009, we bring together enthusiasts for one day of in depth discussion and hacking. The last WhereCamp was done at U Denver and before that, SocialText in Palo Alto.

Peter presented a paper on the how tourism researchers can use web scraping of tourism recommendation sites to conduct spatial and theme-based research.

Peter Johnson and Renee Sieber. 2009. Mining the Web: User Generated Content Research. Travel and Tourism Research Association Canada. Tourism Away from the Mainstream. October 14-17, Guelph, Ontario.

Our newest team member is Jian Zhou, who is beginning his M.Sc. He will be investigation the integration of climate modeling and digital earths.

Britta goes on to Simon Fraser to pursue a PhD. She will be working with Nick Hedley on geovisualization, education and mobile devices. Good luck, Britta!

We presented at the Royal Geographic Society

Sieber, R. and Rahemtulla, H. (2009). The Participatory Geoweb. Paper presented at Royal Geographic Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, Manchester, August 22-23.