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NonMaps: OpenVis Conf 2016
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This is Not a Map:

Building Interactive Maps with Creative Themes and Geometries

Aurelia Moser

The meaning of "map" across disciplines is remarkably varied. It's effectively a spatial representation of geo-topography, a linking between tables by foreign key, a datatype in C++... At CartoDB, users make creative use of our custom basemaps feature, building remarkable maps of multivariate information off-the-(beaten) geographic projection. Many have designed and published interactive maps of cemetery burial plots, galactic drawings of the Star Wars Universe, heatmaps of court traffic during the NBA finals. Let's explore other maps, and investigate topic and themes not yet covered in interactives...talk about how to map them, and why mapping unmapped data might be the perfect expression of their meaning.

Links:

Hack Maps:

Some of these maps were featured in the presentation for this session, others are further examples of peculiar map types.

SCIENCE + INDUSTRY

TRANSPORTATION
EXPERIENTIAL

HUMAN MAPS

GEO-FUTURISM
RETRO-HISTORICAL

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