Here are some notes and references this talk at O'Reilly's Fluent 2018
June 14th, 1:10-1:30pm
TITLE
you are [w]here?: geospatial web dev off the beaten
DESCRIPTION
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++... Today, coders make creative use of custom basemaps and clever scripting methods, 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, sequence maps of human genes, heatmaps of court traffic during the NBA finals, fantasy landscapes from deeply fake stats.
Focusing on a mix of artificial, scientific, and environmental sensing data, we'll characterize fantasy and farcical mapping, teasing out the tough parts of geocoding on real and mythical spatial matrices, while delving into the contrived topographies of null island, paper towns, "dumb" cities, and the infinitely curious world of geo-speculative design in JS.
SLIDES
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WHY ARE MAPS IMPORTANT?
1: You are [w]here‽
- Photo by John Baker on Unsplash
- Image <maps> yo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map
2 Hello World!
- AU (Photo by Aaron Munoz on Unsplash)
3: What is Place?
- Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
- Talking Heads shoutout..whoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMPIxEWGs5g
4: What is place for humans/machines?
- Gif of Tron theme for Tangram (NYC): https://github.com/tangrams/tangram
- Tangram thematic webgl maps: http://tangrams.github.io/tangram/#15/40.67960916141935/-73.97210564464332
5: Cartographic tension: form vs function vs. map falure
- Gif of Rainbow Buildings theme for Tangram (NYC): https://github.com/tangrams/tangram
6: Bl.ocks
- Aurelia's bl.ocks account: https://bl.ocks.org/auremoser
7: Books
- Geospatial Data & Analysis: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/geospatial-data-and/9781491984314/
8: Failures
- Photo by Ian Kim on Unsplash
9: The Glass Room
- Mozilla's Glass Room: https://theglassroomnyc.org/
- New York City - Glass Room: https://tacticaltech.org/projects/the-glass-room-nyc/
10: Location Intelligence: why maps are important
- Glass Room Exhibition: https://theglassroom.org/exhibit/
HOW MAPS CAN FAIL US
11: Political Bias
- Disputed Territories: http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/
- Source Blogpost on Disputed Territories: https://source.opennews.org/articles/meet-disputed-territories-and-ssn-redactor/
12: Disputed Territories
- Disputed Territories, http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/
- Source Blogpost on Disputed Territories: https://source.opennews.org/articles/meet-disputed-territories-and-ssn-redactor/
13: Grid System Errors
- Zip code errors in Flint Michigan: https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-lead-problem-in-flint-65626
- Consider the modifiable areal unit problem present in Flint Michigan’s government analysis of lead-water contamination in their city-bounded facilities: http://support.esri.com/other-resources/gis-dictionary/term/MAUP
14: Geocoding Centroid Issues
- PornHub Geocoding errors exposé: https://source.opennews.org/articles/distrust-your-data/
15: null island and the "known knowns" of fake place
- Null Island Archipelago: https://smathermather.com/2014/09/10/null-archipelago-null-islands-for-all-coordinate-reference-systems/
- Known Knowns in geo: https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data/blob/master/README.KNOWN.KNOWNS.md
16: Subjectivity: Falsehoods about addresses
- Falshoods programmers believe about addresses: http://tinyurl.com/faux-geo
17: Projection skew
- Various projections in North America, first published in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Projections-North-America.png
18: Maps are infinite and complex
- Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
19: Placemaking = Profiling
- Shannon Mattern, "Databodies in Code Space," Places Journal: https://placesjournal.org/article/databodies-in-codespace/
PAPER PARADIGMS IN THE WWW.EB
20: Welcome to the paper-web
- Paper-web, Iraq War Prints by James Bridle: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/sets/72157624693833091/with/4932088038/
21: History of paper cartography
- Ebstorf Map, 13th Century, mappa mundi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebstorf_Map
- Mappa Mundi, medieval maps of the world: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0829_wiremappamundi.html
22: There be dragons
- Monsters in mappa mundi: http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/hereford-mappa-mundi-legendary-cities-monstrous-races-beasts020328
23: Cartography = consenual hallucination
- Mapzen, Who's on First, Mapping with Bias: https://whosonfirst.org/blog/2016/08/15/mapping-with-bias/
24: There is so much still unknown
- National Aquarium - easy to ignore what we cannot see: https://twitter.com/natlaquarium/status/472463764521254912?lang=en
PAPER TOWNS
25: Phantom Settlements: Agloe, NY
- NPR piece on paper towns and Agloe NY: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/03/18/290236647/an-imaginary-town-becomes-real-then-not-true-story
- Fbook Research, Deduplicating a Places Database: https://research.fb.com/publications/deduplicating-a-places-database/
26-28: Entertin, WI = Internet
- Entertin repo: https://github.com/auremoser/entertin/
29: Provocartography
- Hacker Intercepts FBI/Secret Service calls: http://valleywag.gawker.com/how-a-hacker-intercepted-fbi-and-secret-service-calls-w-1531334747
- Strange disappearance of Sunrise, Florida: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/22/google.lost.sunrise.florida/index.html
30: Hacking the paper web
- Strange case of the Shed at Dulwich: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisora
MAKING MORE HUMAN MAPS
31: Signs of better future maps
- Bringing human perspective to machine maps
- Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash
32: Improving the atlas: Missing Maps - OSM
- HOT, Missing Maps: http://www.missingmaps.org/
33: Improving contextual understanding: Who's on First
- Who's on First, Mapping with Bias: https://whosonfirst.org/blog/2016/08/15/mapping-with-bias/
- Who's on First - a gazeteer from Mapzen: https://github.com/whosonfirst
- Who's on First Data: https://github.com/whosonfirst-data
34-35: Improving monitorying and updates: Urchn
- Development Seed, Sensing Urban Change: https://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2018/05/15/sensing-urban-change/
36: Improving automagics of mapping
- MIT news, Automatically Build Road Maps with Aerial Imagery: http://news.mit.edu/2018/new-way-to-automatically-build-road-maps-with-aerial-images-0417
37: Improving diversity and representation of populations
- Majal, Mideast Tunes: https://map.mideastunes.com/?lang=en
- Mozilla, Building Communties for the Marginalized: https://medium.com/read-write-participate/building-communities-for-the-marginalized-8029fd04d41e
38: Improving education
- Geosandbox: http://jk-lee.com/geosandbox/
39: Improving addresses
- Enterin, WI on What3Words: http://w3w.co/ended.conquest.reached
- Entertin featured on @all3words, bot: https://twitter.com/all3words/status/1005925548638588938
40: Take away: > human maps
- Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
41 Follow folks
- Photo by Alex Holyoake on Unsplash
- Photo by 2Photo Pots on Unsplash
People to Follow:
@spatialdatasci
@mewo2
@dphiffer
@thisisaaronland
@Spatial_Punk
@MrEPhysics
@lisacrost
@meetar
@leejoeyk
@bertspaan
@lyzidiamond
@juliansimioni
@shannonmattern
@juliasilge
@dianamaps
@tierneyl
@mgiraldo
@dmgeo
@kelsosCorner
42: Thank you!
- Photo by Morvanic Lee on Unsplash
Additional Resources
aka things I ran out of time to talk about...
- Nathan Yau, Go Back to Where You Came From: https://flowingdata.com/2018/05/16/go-back-where-you-came-from/
- Washtington Post, Using the best data possible, we set out to find the middle of nowhere: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/20/using-the-best-data-possible-we-set-out-to-find-the-middle-of-nowhere/
- How to read maps: http://mjmdavis.com/showing/2017/05/16/how-to-read-maps.html
- Datums, projections and coordinate systems: http://lyzidiamond.com/posts/4326-vs-3857
- Sweet slides on the geodesy: http://lyzidiamond.com/geodesy/
- Transforming a dataset that is off: http://bl.ocks.org/auremoser/6e984c0ff866e04686c8
- Fake placemaking is easy: Giggleswick
- Generative town/fantasy maps by Martin O'Leary, amazing bot-maker: https://www.patreon.com/mewo2/overview
- @UnchartedAtlas: https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas
- Blog post about how to make generative fantasy topographies: http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/
- Blog post about how to make generative fantasy placenames:https://mewo2.com/notes/naming-language/
- @Metropologeny - generating town plans: https://twitter.com/metropologeny
- @landsatbot - sharing tiles from random satellite captures: https://twitter.com/landsatbot
- CityLab,Why Ethical Maps Are More Humane: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/who-maps-the-world/555272/
- Economist, Why World Maps are Misleading: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2015/01/06/why-world-maps-are-misleading