Digital Mapping

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Packback Champ…

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Secrets of Success

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?

Read more about this…

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.

API/Mashups

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…