Digital Mapping
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Posting early…
I showed the Starbucks map in class
Good questions that people can easily engage with…
Fyre was lit! – lived experiences
Abstract Representations of Fyre
Last Time…
Street View
Googles vision of perfect information and efficiency
Vs
Concerns over privacy and negative group identification/category creation
How does Street View work – What instruments/methodologies do they use?
Potential limitations of using Street View
Geographic spread of Street View
Algorithms and blurred faces/license plates
Last Time…
Maps as abstract representations of space
Human rendering or filtering of real life experiences
Midterm
In a month!
3 weeks from Thursday you will assigned a take home portion for the exam (PLEASE WORK TOGETHER and take advantage of teaching assistants availability)
On Tuesday you will apply what you have learned independently in class/lecture. Mostly on labs #4, #5, #6, #7 – Maaaattttttthhhhhhh
Think of this as the lab portion
Thursday – More traditional short answer focusing more on lectures
Map Analysis
How does your phone work etc
Map Analysis: Reading in between the latitude and longitude lines
Maps are abstract – they are if real places, but they are plugged into systems of meaning.
Map analysis has two pillars:
Understand what the author is trying to communicate
Place the map into context (country, time, purpose etc)
Maps Speak for Themselves - British Empire 1886
What is on this map? *including outside the actual location/map space
What does this map tell us about the British Empire?
Who is the audience for the map?
Konrad Miller’s 1929 re-creation of al-Idrisi's Tabula Rogeriana from 1154
Upside down?
Why is are all maps North Oriented?
Obsession with Ptolemy – who always had north as up on his map
Greco-Roman in Egypt – astronomer/geographer who thought earth was center of the universe
Virtually nothing is known about him…
Maps made in Muslim world
And other places
Europeans explore via ship en masse
Use north star for guidance
Convention … not accuracy…
Mercator (name sake)
Gerhardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, 1512-1594
Did a 6 month bid at this castle for charges of heresy
Side Hustle Selling These
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Navigation, Netherlands, merchant, tried for heresy for being sympathetic to protestants – geography linked to where he is from -
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By end of 1700s chart makers all over the world were using nothing but the Mercator projection
Designed to show oceans and coastlines in detail without concern for the continental interiors.
The waiter and connectivity
API’s Make it possible for applications to interface
API
The waiter and connectivity
Connections between different applications
Sending and requesting bits of data flying around at high speeds
Works similar to location services
Illustration…