摘要: In April, 2011, a discussion emerged on the Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) listserve, raising pertinent issues around geospatial data production, ownership, and role of participation in emergent mapping technologies. The email that sparked debate was announcing launch new “slum mapping” project using Google Map Maker -a proprietary geographic database -and solicited from listserve members. This project’s goals were contested by community members OpenStreetMap, freely-available editable web platform, invoking promoting corporate disregarding individuals’ contributions, enacting problematic power relations between mappers those mapped. Many responded, however, favor Maker’s simple interface relative openness, which purportedly attract wider for