Friday Harbor周五港

Friday Harbor is a column from the Humanistic GIS Laboratory, edited by Bo Zhao. The name takes two layers — first, the University of Washington's marine field station on San Juan Island, north of Seattle; second, and more to the point: the 1993 Friday Harbor meeting held there, the first sit-down between GIS scientists and critical social theorists, the moment that opened the social turn in geographic information science. This column continues that conversation.

「周五港」是 HGIS 实验室的一个专栏,由赵博主编。名字承袭两层——一是华盛顿大学坐落于圣胡安岛上的同名海洋田野站;二,也更要紧:1993 年在那里召开的「周五港会议」,GIS 科学家与批判社会理论学者第一次正式坐到同一张桌前的对话,自此开启了地理信息科学的「社会转向」。这份札记,是那场对话的延续。

  1. № 005 Sat周六 April 25, 2026 2026年4月25日 Strait of Hormuz · 26.5° N, 56.5° E 霍尔木兹海峡 · 北纬 26.5°,东经 56.5°

    The Eye of the Needle 针眼

    Roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil threads through a 39-kilometre channel. This week, two ships did not make it through. 全球大约五分之一的海运原油,每天挤过一道 39 公里宽的水道。这一周,有两艘船没能过去。

  2. № 004 Fri周五 April 24, 2026 2026年4月24日 United States · 41 cities tracked by the Eviction Lab 美国 · Eviction Lab 跟踪的 41 个城市

    1.23 Million Eviction Filings 123 万次驱逐

    Last year's eviction filings, mapped by the city. The geography is not the geography of housing-market pressure — it is the geography of law. 去年全美的驱逐起诉,按城市标在地图上。这片分布不是租房市场压力的地理,而是法律的地理。

  3. № 003 Tue周二 April 21, 2026 2026年4月21日 Continental United States · 11 hyperscaler clusters 美国本土 · 11 处超大规模数据中心集群

    Where the Cloud Touches Ground 云落在哪里

    Every prompt typed into ChatGPT or Gemini takes a path through specific buildings on specific land. The cloud is geography. These are the dots. 你在 ChatGPT 或 Gemini 里敲下的每一句话,都要经过具体土地上的一栋具体建筑。「云」是一种地理事实。这些就是它落地的点。

  4. № 002 Fri周五 April 17, 2026 2026年4月17日 Seattle, WA · Neighborhood Map Atlas vs. GPT-5.5 Thinking 西雅图 · 《邻里地图集》对照 GPT-5.5 Thinking

    Does the AI Really Know Your City? AI 真的懂你的城市吗?

    Asked to draw Seattle's neighborhoods from memory, GPT-5.5 Thinking returned polygons that mostly miss their real-world counterparts. Read the misses as a diagram — where a language model's geographic imagination thickens, and where it thins. 让 GPT-5.5 Thinking 凭记忆画出西雅图的邻里边界,它画出的多边形多数对不上真实邻里。把这些偏差当一张图看——一台语言模型的地理想象,在哪里厚、在哪里薄。

  5. № 001 Tue周二 April 14, 2026 2026年4月14日 Salish Sea · Washington State Ferries 萨利什海 · 华盛顿州渡轮系统

    Anacortes — Friday Harbor 阿纳科蒂斯 — 周五港

    The route the column is named for. Live ferry positions, thirty-three years of running, twelve percent of last year's sailings cancelled. 本栏目命名所自的那条航线。船位实时更新;这条线运行 33 年;去年航次中有约 12% 被取消。