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Nodes, ways and relations

Maps, mappings, cartographies; (dis)orientations for the everyday, obdurate disciplinary motifs of and for geography, maligned and admired in variable measure. Cartography; a science and set of practices once pertaining to sovereign power alone, yet now increasingly diffuse in its geographic reach and performance. Nonetheless, whether rendered through hegemonic, quotidian or hybrid assemblages, mapping remains resolutely (geo)political at a range of disparate registers; statist to somatic. Elsewhere, I have used three cartographic attributes, namely those of ‘lines’, ‘contours’ and ‘legends’ as a means of establishing a conceptual vocabulary that underscores the awkward, nonrepresentational aspects of a recent surge in participatory, or ‘vernacular’ mapping practices themselves propelled by the mass-mediatisation of cartography via mobile, digital and online platforms (see Gerlach, 2014). Here I appropriate a further three attributes; drawn from both the cartographic-lexiconat-large and from the toolkit of OpenStreetMap, the increasingly renowned wiki-based, crowdand open-sourced mapping organisation established in 2004. These three attributes, nodes, ways and relations, act simultaneously as both the very constitutive material of OpenStreetMap’s cartographic output and likewise as points of meditation in this chapter. Together they animate the empirical upshot of the burgeoning conceptual matter on mapping that itself is steadily animating the processual and ontologically/epistemologically insecure natures of contemporary cartography (Kitchin and Dodge, 2007; Crampton, 2010; Elwood and Leszczynski, 2013; Burns, 2014; Caquard,