Abstract Title | Description | Type of participation | Primary presenter name | Primary presentor email addresss | Coauthors, their email addresses, and affiliation. One per line. | Other authors email addresses | Program | Primary presenter affiliation |
New Balls Please | Several years ago Red Geographics was involved in the production of the Oolaalaa Globe Chairs. We are now working on a new set of maps for a similar product, using our experience as well as new datasets and software to make a better product. | Speaker | Hans van der Maarel | I don't know, choose for me! | Red Geographics | |||
Human Interpretation vs. Object-Oriented Image Analysis for Identifying Distinguishing Characteristics of Nuclear Power Facilities | Visual interpretation of fine resolution large-scale remotely sensed images, such as IKONOS or Quickbird, can be essential to disaster response efforts. Manual interpretation has been shown to be much faster than automated methods, and the flexibility of human reasoning capabilities is unmatched at this point. In this study we compare human ability to identify key facilities in nuclear power plants against object-oriented image analysis software, e-cognition. The objective of this study is to compare (a) how sensitive human annotation is to infrastructure boundaries to OBIA performance, (b) determine what key features of a nuclear power facility make it discernible from other types of power facilities. The results of this work are then used to create an identification key for nuclear facilities to support visual interpretation of imagery during disaster response. We suggest that this bottom up approach to creating identification keys can also be used to support infrastructure protection. | Speaker | Raechel A. Bianchetti | Kunwar K. Singh, [email protected], University of North Carolina- Charlotte, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography | ||
Mapping in Early American Urban Sociology | Maps were often at the center of early American urban sociological studies. In the late 1890s, both Jane Addams and W.E.B. DuBois created maps depicting minority neighborhoods. This paper examines the appearance, rise, and fall of maps created by University of Chicago sociologists who developed urban ecology. These maps employed concentric circles to argue that industrial development created common patterns of land use which fit a wide range of cities. Urban ecologists also invested the concentric zones with cultural and psychological significance, attracting individuals from some groups and generating distinct patterns of life captured by writers and artists residing in those areas. Briefly influential, urban ecology’s concentric zone maps met with intense criticism which led to a split between urban ecologists (who developed alternative mapping schemes) and sociologists (who saw urban ecology as too specialized to provide insight into emerging social and cultural developments). | Speaker | Jonathan Lewis | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Benedictine University, Department of Sociology & Psychology | |||
Developing and Teaching an Online Course on Coordinate Systems through Penn State’s World Campus | Map Projections for GIS Professionals is a graduate-level course offered through Penn State’s World Campus. The course’s lecture topics include datums, map projections, and grid systems. Originally, the course was delivered as a one-credit elective through the online program in Masters of Geographic Information Systems. Beginning in the summer of 2007 this five-week course has been taught twice yearly. Course topics are introduced through concept galleries, assignments are explored through ArcMap, quizzes test student comprehension of material, and weekly discussion questions prompt interaction among students. Overall, student feedback on this course has been positive but many thought the topics were too thinly covered. This sentiment and other student feedback were catalysts used to expand the course into a three-credit offering. This newly redesigned course lasting ten-weeks allows for a more detailed examination of the topics. This presentation will report on the decisions involved, planning for, and the outcome of teaching this three-credit course. | Speaker | Fritz Kessler | James L Sloan IIDutton e-Education InstituteCollege of Earth and Mineral Sciences The Pennsylvania State University 2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building University Park, PA 16802-6813 | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Frostburg State University | ||
Application of Geocoding in Evaluation of Healthcare Program | Geocoding is a process to transform text format locational data, such as street addresses, from spread sheet or database to a layer of graphic points on a map. These points can then be analyzed using Geographic Information Systems. This paper discusses how geocoding is applied in a project of evaluation of healthcare program. One of the purposes of the project is to transform the text format data of healthcare providers and patients from Microsoft Excel files to a map to visualize how they are distributed spatially and to examine if it fits model of the healthcare program on family income. The result shows that there is significant gap between spatial distribution patterns of the healthcare providers and patients and the model of the family income. This research provides valuable findings for the healthcare foundation to make decisions to improve their healthcare program. | Speaker | Bangbo Hu | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Villanova University | |||
Photographic Georeferencing: Finding the Unseen in Historical Views of the Grand Canyon | Enchanting the Desert is a research initiative that uses an early-twentieth-century narrated, photographic slideshow of the Grand Canyon as its departure point. The project revives and augments the slideshow in an online, interactive format. Within the photographs themselves, geo-coded information from a variety of disciplines – e.g. folklore, biology, geology, art history – are merged to “enchant” the region of the Grand Canyon, turning the photos from a set of disorienting (if beautiful) images into a collection of places imbued with meaning and history that can be controlled and understood by the end user. The aims of the project are theoretical, technical, pedagogical, and artistic. In this presentation I will show my process of photographic georeferencing, as well as a printed viewshed map of the Grand Canyon based on the photographer’s original station points. These two outcomes emerged from the research process, and contribute to the final online product. | I don't know, choose for me! | Nicholas Bauch | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Stanford University | |||
The Arabian Peninsula Symbolized on Maps, Medieval to Modern | Until the modern era the people of the Arabian Peninsula had little need for maps and created few, since most of them depended on traditional knowledge of desert landmarks, the movements of the stars, and the directions of the winds for wayfinding. In contrast, Europeans created many maps of Arabia for various reasons ranging from intellectual curiosity to political, economic, and military interests. This paper trace sand seeks to explain the changing representation of the Arabian Peninsulaon maps from the medieval period to the modern day. It considers the historical development of map symbols, like writing, from pictures to conventional pictorial signs to abstract symbols.It looks at the differences between Arabian and European mapmakers and their underlying cultural biases.It explores how the maps were designed to serve different purposes. Out of this study of map symbolization emerges a multi-faceted view of the Arabian Peninsula and its history as seen through the eyes of many mapmakers, medieval to modern. | Speaker | Naeema, Alhosani | ALL days from Oct., 9-11 | Geography and Urban Planning Department, UAEU | |||
Cartography Connection: Mapmakers Publishing Content Online | Of course as we are in the 21st century, the World Wide Web is widely used in the United States and many parts of the world. With that, more and more cartographers are going online to publish maps, whether they are scanned paper or digital maps. Many geography blogs and websites are in existence, including my GeoFact of the Day Blog. I would talk about techniques on how to publish and make maps that are tailored to the web, with considerations like differing monitor color settings that can affect map quality, etc. I would also talk about the importance of social media, like public Facebook pages, to make people aware about cartographers' latest mapmaking masterpieces. | I don't know, choose for me! | Zach Mahan | N/A | I don't know, choose for me! | GeoFact of the Day Blog (geofactoftheday.blogspot.com) | ||
An Introduction to (or Refresher on) Map Projections | For many cartographers, novice and veteran alike, map projections remain a mysterious, confusing, and sometimes intimidating subject. We might know a few rules of thumb to help us make choices, but many of us don't always understand the reasoning behind them. Good mapmaking requires good projections, and knowing a bit more about how projections work makes it easier for us to make the right choice. In this short introductory course, we'll go over the basics of projections: their many varieties, properties, and parameters, and why all this stuff matters. It will put you on a solid footing to make smarter decisions in your next map, with a minimum of fuss and confusion. | Session | Daniel P. Huffman | None presently. Could recruit others if/when this session is approved. | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | somethingaboutmaps | ||
Cartography 101: Back to Basics | Take a break from the cutting edge of cartography to spend a little time learning about the fundamentals of mapmaking. Revisiting the basics is essential for the established professional. It is only when you've had some experience that you can truly appreciate and fully understand all that stuff that they were trying to teach you in school (and given that people only remember a fraction of what they hear in lecture, you might re-learn a few useful things you've forgotten). So come by for a refresher, or feel free to join us for your first go-around if you're a beginner! We'll touch on projections, typography, aesthetics, and more. | Session | Daniel P. Huffman | None presently. Could recruit others if/when this session is approved. | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | somethingaboutmaps | ||
New Natural Earth Raster Data | The Natural Earth product line now includes two new raster datasets.Gray Earth: This monochromatic terrain map introduces a new presentation technique: locally-enhanced hypsometric tints. Instead of using a linear scale to calculate elevation colors worldwide, as do traditional hypsometric tints, locally-enhanced tints are relative based on the elevation ranges of regions. As a result, the lower terrain that predominates Earth receives more emphasis and is easier to see.USGS National Atlas: Created through an interagency agreement, this classic-style Natural Earth relief/land cover complements National Atlas 1 million scale vector data. It includes the 50 US states, plus Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The dataset is large—the contiguous US measures nearly 50,000 pixels in width, more than 16 feet at 254 DPI—with each pixel representing 100 meters on the ground. I will discuss the new techniques and data sources needed to develop Natural Earth images at this larger scale. | Speaker | Tom Patterson | Practical Cartography Day (Weds) | US National Park Service | |||
The canon's roar | We know good maps when we see them because maps are always judged against an horizon of other maps. The orienting landmarks of laudable practice on this horizon comprise a canon of models for what a map is and what a map can be. The question then arises of how maps (not specific maps, but any maps at all) come to be selected for inclusion or marked for exclusion in the canon. We pay a different form of attention to maps in the canon. We see them as both timely (relevant now) and timeless (relevant for all time), in a manner that is often considered to be natural, but is wholly artificial.This talk will try to situate the canon in the overall theoretical framework that allows maps to exist and function, including the dichotomy between knowledge and opinion, and issues such as nature verses custom. | Speaker | Mark Denil | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | National Ice Center | |||
Inspection of Topographic Distance Measurements within ArcGIS | GIS software measures geodetic distances using a spheroid model of the earth called a reference ellipsoid. However, geodetic distances do not take into account changes in elevation between two points. It will be argued that topographic distance measurements should be considered when carrying out measurements where elevation changes exist.This presentation will discuss the results of a research that investigated the need for topographic distances within a GIS environment. To test this need, a section of highway in New Mexico will be surveyed and geodetic and topographic distances measurements of the actual surface distance will be compared.The basic results suggest that the greater the elevation changes, the greater the difference between the topographic and geodetic distance. A successful project will call for further research by academics and GIS software vendors in developing a topographic distance utility. The presentation will discuss the project, results and need for further research. | Speaker | Steven Bradshaw | I don't know, choose for me! | Penn State University | |||
The Negro Travelers' Green Book: A Counter-Mapping of Travel during Jim Crow | The Negro Travelers' Green Book, published from 1936 to 1964, was a travel guide used by middle class African American motorists to identify—down to the street address level—accommodations safe from racial discrimination and segregation of the Jim Crow era. The Green Book in effect provided a “counter mapping” of the U.S. travel landscape that challenged the legitimacy of white supremacy and marked important sites of black public space, automobility and commodity activism. Our paper analyzes the 1949 and 1959 editions of the Green Book, identifying spatial patterns in the distribution of safe establishments nationally and regionally with respect to the Southeast, where Jim Crow was most dominant. Visualizing and analyzing this alternative cartography of the South and America contributes to growing interest in digital humanities, historical GIS, and the role of place in racial control and resistance. | Session | Derek H. Alderman | Thomas Crawford, [email protected], Department of Geography, East Carolina UniversityRichard Kennedy, [email protected], Department of Geography, East Carolina University | Special Session: Cartographies of the South | Department of Geography, University of Tennessee | ||
Symbol Sharing Tools for Cartographers at NASA | Susan A. HulseyDepartment of GeographyThe Pennsylvania State UniversityTITLE: Symbol Sharing Tools for Cartographers at NASA NASA consists of ten specialty research centers that are located in eight states. Each center hosts GIS users who produce maps to support a wide variety of programs. Many areas have overlapping mapping needs within the agency, but one that requires consistent map design is emergency management mapping. Emergency maps are likely to be shared between NASA centers during disasters. The ability to standardize how an emergency is represented on maps in a timely manner is critically important. The Symbol Store is a web-based symbol sharing tool designed to help users discover, download, upload, and review point symbols. This presentation discusses recent extensions to the Symbol Store and the results of an evaluation with NASA mapmakers of new symbol reviewing tools. Using a task analysis and survey evaluation methodology with members of the NASA GIS users group, we hope to inform the next phase of Symbol Store development. | Speaker | Susan Hulsey | I don't know, choose for me! | NASA, Johnson Space Center, Office of Emergency Management | |||
Enabling Spatial Narratives: The Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s – 1990s Collection | The Georgia State University Library provides students and researchers with material to tell compelling spatial narratives through a new and innovative digital collection of over 1900 historical Atlanta city planning maps, aerial photographs, publications, and unique demographic data. Designed as an educational digital humanities platform, “Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s – 1990s” is utilized in courses across a wide spectrum of disciplines including Geography, History, Sociology, Public Policy and English. With the goal of promoting innovative use of this material, the Planning Atlanta collection follows open data principles and provides free access to various file types, such as GeoTiffs, high resolution JPEGs, CSVs, and KMZ and PNG overlays. Built to be an interactive digital collection for research, educators, and the general public, the Planning Atlanta collection provides a vivid portrait of the city’s built environment and depicts structural conditions of buildings, segregated neighborhoods, and land use patterns. | Speaker | Joseph Hurley | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Georgia State University Library | |||
Search Multiple Data Websites Simultaneously Using APIs | While online sources for geospatial data are highly fragmented and widely distributed, a significant number of data websites are now using portals that provide API access to their catalog, including geo.data.gov and arcgis.com. I have developed an "External Data Sources" section to the results view of NCSU Libraries' GIS data search interface that passes a user's search query through multiple external portal APIs to report back to the user the total number of matching datasets and the top hits from each source. The technical aspects involve using PHP to parse RESTful, JSON, or XML text strings returned by the APIs. This approach exposes users to data sources they may have otherwise not been aware of, and it saves them the effort of querying each website individually. Google Analytics is tracking the number of clicks to each source, and the specific search terms. | I don't know, choose for me! | Jeff Essic | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | NC State University Libraries | |||
Panning for Reblogs: Cartography and Virality | Web 2.0, with its emphasis on the sharing of content, has revolutionized the way maps are disseminated. A map's success is now measured by its accrual of retweets, comments, likes, and pageviews; by extension, cartographers find themselves eagerly hoping their next big project will end up going viral. To go viral, however, a map must resonate with the peculiar and often fickle tastes of the vast internet populous. What opportunities and challenges await cartographers trying to have their maps hit it big on the web? To what degree do the qualities that propel a map to internet stardom conflict with those qualities valued by us as cartographic professionals? This talk will examine the most popular maps of recent memory, and relate the author's own experience in having a map go viral, in the hopes of better understanding how cartographers should adapt to this share-driven world of internet culture. | Speaker | Martin Elmer | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | ||||
Creating and Sharing Web Maps with ArcGIS Online | This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the vast collection of GIS resources that are available through ArcGIS Online, and how they can be leveraged to make quality online maps and applications. Participants will learn best practices for finding and using different types of ArcGIS Online services to build Web maps and apps which can be shared publicly or within a private group and accessed on just about any web-enabled device. Participants will also learn how to add information and interactivity to their maps through the use of widgets such as notes, pop-ups and time sliders, and how to engage their map readers by using story map templates. In addition, the workshop will cover management strategies for ArcGIS Online accounts, including publishing and administration. | Workshop | Mark Stewart | Either Wednesday or Saturday. | Esri | |||
Chesapeake Bay Story Maps | The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is a unique regional partnership that leads and directs Chesapeake Bay restoration and protection. The leaders of the CBP Partnership, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2013, are developing a new Chesapeake Watershed Agreement outlining a series of goals and outcomes to guide conservation and restoration actions over the next decade. As one of the most studied ecosystems in the world, the CBP has a wealth of environmental and socioeconomic data to support this effort. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Partnership, we have been developing a range of data driven story maps to help communicate both technical and non-technical concepts relating to water quality, habitats and watersheds, sustainable fisheries, and public recreation opportunities throughout the Bay watershed. This presentation will highlight a few of those data-driven map stories, including cooperative visualization projects with both Stamen and ESRI. | Speaker | John Wolf | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Geographic Science Center | |||
Crowdsourcing map data | WikiMapping is a web application used to share and collect public input in conjunction with bicycle and pedestrian plans, bikesharing, bike trail planning, and general mapping. Project administrators design projects for their visitors to interact with. For instance, they may ask users to locate barriers to bicycling. Data collected can be exported to GIS and analyzed. GIS data from a masterplan can also be presented on a wikimapping project for users to comment on.I developed (and continue to develop) the wikimapping platform that planners are using to create their own wikimaps. In the process, I'm learning a lot about the different needs unique to locations. http://wikimapping.net/wikimap/Cleveland-Bikeshare-.html#.UbJF8_agkgwhttp://wikimapping.net/wikimap/Chapel-Hill-Bike-Plan.html#.UbJGF_agkgwhttp://wikimapping.net/wikimap/Lawrence-Douglas-County-Multimodal-Study-Bicycling.html#.UbJG7fagkgw | Speaker | Steve Spindler | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Steve Spindler Cartography, WikiMapping Developer | |||
ArcGIS Bivariate Mapping Tools | Bivariate maps show two themes on the same map. The graphic marks used to represent the themes may be different, as with proportional symbols on a choropleth map, or they may be the same. Bivariate choropleth and bivariate point symbol maps fall into the latter category. Although ArcGIS does not have any out of the box tools to make these same-symbol bivariate maps, in this presentation I introduce a new set of tools that can be used to ease the compilation of these maps. Combined with standard tools, it is now easier and faster to make these bivariate maps in ArcGIS. | Speaker | Aileen Buckley | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Esri | |||
Kenneth Slessor, John Speed, and the “Southerne Sea” | Midway through composing his five-poem sequence The Atlas in 1930, Australian poet Kenneth Slessor suddenly wrote “Southerne Sea” in his journal (http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms3020-19-1-s169-v). He’d just chosen John Speed’s famous world map A New and Accurat Map of the World, 1651/1676, as the epithet of his fourth poem “Mermaids.” Unlike the cartographic epigraphs introducing the other poems, however, Speed’s map has little to do with “Mermaids”―a riotous romp through seas of fantastic creatures, and a paean to the maps that gave such creatures immortality. The map features a vast “Southerne Unknowne Land” and “Mar del Zur,” but no mythical beasties. And while it names “Southerne Sea” obliquely, in a legend, neither “Mermaids” nor The Atlas mentions Australia or “Southerne Sea.” Moreover, although Slessor’s sailors are “staring from maps in sweet and poisoned places,” it’s “portulano maps” that “Mermaids” describes. My paper retraces Slessor’s creative process to reveal why he chose Speed’s map. | Session | Adele J. Haft | I don't know, choose for me! | Hunter College of The City University of New York | |||
OCUL’s Scholars GeoPortal: Cartographic Considerations for Web GIS Portals | The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is a consortium of twenty-one university libraries in the province of Ontario, Canada that collaborates through collective purchasing and shared digital information infrastructure. OCUL’s new Scholars GeoPortal service (http://geo.scholarsportal.info) uses Esri software to provide a set of online tools for identifying, exploring, and downloading licensed geospatial datasets for academic research and study in Ontario. The challenges of cartographic representation in an online portal environment were one of the major considerations in the development of Scholars GeoPortal. This session will introduce the GeoPortal’s interface and discuss our attempts to ‘stay true’ to commonly accepted cartographic conventions within a dynamic user interface, with hundreds of datasets available to overlay on the map view (in sometimes unexpected ways). These challenges are central to the discussion of the importance of cartography in web GIS. | I don't know, choose for me! | Jo Ashley | Leanne Trimble, [email protected], OCUL, Scholars Portal | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | OCUL Scholars Portal, University of Toronto Libraries | ||
Beck to the Future | Using Harry Beck’s 1933 London Underground map as a case study, we show how we use design cues in mapping and how simply copying established maps and using their approach out of context has undesirable consequences.Beck’s map is an effective communicator and whilst the geography of London is distorted, it retains the status of ‘the’ map of London. Symbols are clear and well crafted; composition and layout remains beautifully balanced; and the design has remained relatively unchanged, creating stability in appearance confidence in its use.However, Beck’s map is over-used in myriad ways. The abuse dilutes its place in cartographic history. Many official iterations have not always successfully married Beck’s design ideas with network changes; other metro maps have tried to imitate but with mediocre success; and the map is perpetually used as a template for mimics and alternatives. The map has become a model for parody. | Speaker | Kenneth Field | William Cartwright, [email protected], RMIT University, Geospatial Science | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Esri | ||
DIY Cartography in the Enterprise | As map use has permeated most organizations and data is driving many day to day decisions, the concept of the "cartographer" being one person in the organization who can make maps is giving way to the concept of enabling those who need data visualized on a map to become DIY Cartographers. Standards driven "background" maps supplied via web services with tools that allow live, dynamic data to be overlain and manipulated is no longer the sole purview of powerhouse GIS shops with high paid GIS programmers. A variety of new, simple tools allow smaller organizations with fewer resources to provide these services to their staff and management on demand. Now you can tell them to "DIY!" | I don't know, choose for me! | Angela Daniels | I don't know, choose for me! | Greenville Technical College | |||
Maps and the Geospatial Revolution: Teaching a MOOC on Mapping | Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as a vibrant trend in distance education. By their nature, MOOCs provide new levels of access to courses without tuition costs to students, and they challenge traditional models for university education which emphasize high levels of one-on-one contact between instructors and students. In this presentation I describe experiences from designing, developing, and teaching one of the first MOOCs on Mapping. The course, called Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, was offered through Coursera, a major MOOC platform. Tens of thousands of students enrolled to take the class, signaling a large demand for basic cartographic education. A wide range of challenges and opportunities around MOOCs for Cartography will be highlighted in this presentation. Research on map use and design, as well as education and outreach to improve exposure to our discipline, could stand to benefit from engagement with thousands of students in MOOCs. | Speaker | Anthony Robinson | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | The Pennsylvania State University | |||
Mapping the Future Patagonia National Park | As we speak, a team of philanthropists, biologists, ecologists, and trail builders are hard at work creating the future Patagonia National Park in Chile. Marty Schnure and Ross Donihue spent the 2013 austral summer in the field collecting content to create maps of the new park. Learn about their expedition and see the recently completed maps. | Speaker | Ross Donihue | Marty Schnure, [email protected], Maps for Good | I don't know, choose for me! | Maps for Good | ||
GIS Printing Applications | Canon Solutions America:Discuss critical information, like disaster recovery or emergency response, with project teams with speed and accuracy. Present information, both internally and externally, with confidence that last minute details can be printed and distributed quickly. With the Océ ColorWave® 650 printer, there is no longer a need to wait for full coverage maps to process and print or damp prints to dry. | Demonstration | Danny Attayek | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Canon Solutions America | |||
Map Viewers and Services at NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center | The Mission of NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, CO is to provide long-term scientific data stewardship for the Nation's geophysical data, ensuring quality, integrity, and accessibility. A suite of interactive web maps and map services provides data discovery and access to much of the data stewarded at NGDC. These maps are implemented using ArcGIS for Server and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Several of the maps can be toggled between Web Mercator, Arctic, and Antarctic projections. This presentation will cover cartographic products and services for various datasets at NGDC, including high-resolution bathymetry DEM visualizations, ship tracks for multibeam and marine geophysical surveys, hydrographic survey data, marine geological samples, historical tsunami data, historical magnetic declination models, and the international GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names. | I'm not sure if I should give a talk or a demonstration. How does a demonstration work? Will I be able to interact with our online maps as part of a live demo? Thanks. | Jesse Varner | John Cartwright, [email protected], NOAA National Geophysical Data Center | I don't know, choose for me! | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado | ||
Telling the Story of the Coast with the North Carolina Coastal Atlas | The coast of North Carolina is extensive, dynamic and rich with natural resources and vibrant culture. For decades coastal researchers have been collecting physical, biological and human resources information to describe the complex ecosystems, patterns of change and threats posed by natural hazards, but there have been few ways in which the data could be analyzed and visualized together. This presentation will describe the collaborative efforts led by East Carolina University and the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management with other partners to develop the North Carolina Coastal Atlas (www.nccoastalatlas.org). Thematic maps developed for the atlas follow the stories such as that of the leaders of a small town, vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, which wants to develop strategies to become more resilient. Another use case story is that of managers looking at development patterns along the estuarine shoreline and the impact on erosion rates and marsh ecosystems. | Speaker | Tom Allen | Robert Howard, [email protected], East Carolina University, North Carolina Coastal AtlasMichelle Covi, [email protected], East Carolina University, Coastal Resources ManagementJoseph Thomas, [email protected], East Carolina University, Joyner LibraryJ.P. Walsh, [email protected], ECU Geological Sciences, Inst. for Coastal Science and Policy, UNC Coastal Studies Institute | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | East Carolina University, Department of Geography | ||
Imagery Painting in Maps | An expanding look at base imagery in maps. To date the advancement of map imagery has been defined by one factor: resolution. What about palette, atmosphere, texture and lighting? Once we get past "accurate" representation, what about evocative imagery that has a visual or emotional point of view? Techniques for imagery painting include use of additional Landsat bands (the "natural" color bands are only a subset of the tools we have at our disposal, IMHO); adding highlights and shadows generated from DEMs; using land cover data to apply texture in defined areas; using Lidar first return data to enhance edges and textures. Integrating aerial imagery into basemaps, moderating the need to choose between Standard, Satellite, or Terrain. Embracing imagery as a cartographic *design* tool can change the future look of maps. | Speaker | Bruce Daniel | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | The Map Lab | |||
The Forgotten Context: Technology and the Interpretation of Early Maps. | Brian Harley wrote in 1990 “More than many other texts, maps are ... mediated by a series of technical activities, each performed by a different ‘author’", and noted that how a map was made in a technical sense was the first step in interpretation of early maps. However, despite similar comments by others in cartography, this aspect of interpreting and evaluating maps in history has been neglected in many recent studies. As a result, over-the-top readings of the meaning and significance of maps are found. This paper draws on examples of questionable interpretations in the literature and discusses how knowledge of technology is important even in critical studies in history of cartography. | Speaker | Judith Tyner | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | CSU Long Beach | |||
Mapping North Dakota’s Oil Boom | Since 2006, oil production in North Dakota has more than tripled making it the second highest domestic supplier of oil, behind Texas and ahead of Alaska. Technological advances in hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, is accountable. This controversial technique involves the use of pressurized chemical injections underneath the earth’s surface to help facilitate the extraction of oil and gas resources. In this talk, I’ll walk through the reporting process for National Geographic Magazine’s mapping and graphic coverage of North Dakota’s fracking boom (published in the March 2013 issue). We’ll take a look at how advances in industry policies differ from place to place, and how fracking has transformed landscapes and economies. | Speaker | Ginny Mason | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | National Geographic Magazine | |||
Providing Access to the Geospatial Data Collections Using East View’s GeoCloud | The University of Florida’s Map & Imagery Library has spent years collecting terabytes of geospatial data from all over the world. However, patrons can only find and use data if the library provides them adequate access. So then, what is the best way to provide patrons access to huge, complex geospatial datasets? How can that data be made easily-searchable, viewable, and download-able? What interface works best for a variety of users and multiple types of geospatial data? The University of Florida has come together with the data provider East View to try and solve these issues by developing an innovative geovisualization and access tool. | Speaker | Carol McAuliffe | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | University of Florida, Map & Imagery Libraries | |||
Bill Bunge, D3.js, and the Future of Critical Cartography | This talk considers the work of William Bunge in light of recent developments in digital cartography using open web standards. Bunge worked as a radical cartographer in the second half of the 20thcentury and lore around his work continues to inspire geographers and cartographers. Today we ask what Bunge’s approach to geography would look like given recent advances in mapping technology and current political concerns. We begin by re-visiting Bunge’s Nuclear War Atlas using the Data-Driven Documents JavaScript visualization library(D3.js) to recreate some of the original maps and graphics as web maps. Pushing beyond the original static maps, we explore what possibilities are afforded within a dynamic and interactive mapping environment, how this changes the nature of maps, and how this new mapping medium may either enable or constrain Bunge's original vision. We conclude by proffering a general call to renew the radical potential of mapping and a practice-based critical cartography using D3.js and similar open visualization platforms. | Speaker | Rich Donohue | Ate Poorthuis, [email protected], University of Kentucky | FloatingsheepZachary Forest Johnson, [email protected], Independent Scholar | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | UW-Madison, Department of Geography | ||
Questions Facing Map Design in the Age of Mobility and Siri | Mobile devices present distinct interaction and design challenges for cartographers and developers. As these technologies continue evolve, interaction will more easily be facilitated by multi-modal interfaces driven by a person's touch and voice, giving rise to new interface design questions. How do we design a symbol that visually cues a user to interact with it using touch or voice? How do we design an experience that smoothly transitions between touch and voice? In addition, there are important questions of symbol ambiguity and content accessibility that will drive not only how we design maps, but how people engage with and create content. I will discuss these questions, and examine how existing projects and future research are positioned to address them. | Speaker | Ryan S Mullins | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Dept of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University | |||
Mapping with Communities in Atlanta, Georgia to Understand Sustainability | The growing subfield of community geography places explicit emphasis on identifyingthe spatial thinking and local knowledge that emerge from neighborhood residents’ experiences and seeks to affect positive community change in a variety of ways. As an integrated research and education framework dedicated to community-engaged scholarship and citizen science, the subfield holds much promise for developing a more inclusive and societal relevant discipline of geography. In this presentation, I discuss community geography as a way to broaden participation of under-represented groups in geographic research and to increase spatial knowledge production in local neighborhoods around Atlanta, Georgia. The talk focuses specifically on the development and implementation of participatory smart phone mapping applications and crowd-sourced mapping platforms to understand urban sustainability issues around Atlanta, Georgia. | Speaker | Timothy L. Hawthorne | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Georgia State University, Department of Geosciences | |||
Pictorial Maps in the Clark Library, University of Michigan | Pictorial representation has been used on maps for hundreds if not thousands of years, yet its use as a cartographic device has waned. The Clark Library has a collection of several hundred pictorial maps, many of which are heavily used including “Europe as a Woman” (ca. 1550), the maps of Jo Mora, the murals by Miguel Covarubbias, and those of the art deco style to name a few. The presentation will cover a brief history of pictorial maps using important maps from the Clark Library's collection. | I don't know, choose for me! | Tim Utter | I don't know, choose for me! | University of Michigan | |||
A Geospatial Analysis of Marine Debris and Plastics in Belize | For the past six decades, plastics have impacted the way humans live. Because of their popularity and convenience, plastic litter and other anthropogenic debris now reside in our oceans, some of the richest and diverse environments on Earth. In this poster demonstration, we discuss a recent research study that uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and map debris accumulation sites on South Water Caye, an island located off eastern Belize. Sites of macro- and micro-debris accumulation were plotted using GPS. Pictures of and details regarding plastics and related debris were recorded at multiple locations on the island as a preliminary study about the effects of litter on coral reef habitats and tourism in Belize. At the time of map creation, microplastics have yet to be analyzed. This study acts as a foundation for ongoing documentation and mapping of litter in coastal ecosystems along the Belize Barrier Reef. | Poster | D. Tyler Harris | Julianna Strack–[email protected] -Georgia State UniversityKourtney Stumpe–[email protected] State University Timothy L. Hawthorne–[email protected] - Georgia State University Christy [email protected] State University | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Georgia State University | ||
Two Approaches to a Deep Map of Atlanta | The concept of deep maps comes from a literary tradition focused on small rural areas, but new technologies in GIS and database driven interfaces allow for incredibly rich interdisciplinary explorations of cities. Two such projects are currently being built in Atlanta. Georgia State University’s ATLmaps project combines archival maps, geospatial data visualization, and multimedia location “pinpoints” to allow users to layer an increasing number of interdisciplinary data about Atlanta so that material can be cross-compared in novel ways. Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship is developing an application similar to Google Maps for Atlanta from the late 1920s through the early 1950s that has the potential to change the way Jim Crow Atlanta is studied. In this panel, speakers will briefly explain these two projects and their different approaches to deep maps, and then discuss the ways schools can work together to create robust tools for university and community researchers. | Panel | Brennan Collins | Michael Page, [email protected], Emory University,Center for Digital Scholarshipmight be 2 other speakers, but I need to get confirmation, Michael and I can do the panel though by ourselves | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Georgia State University, Department of English | ||
A Bathymetric Book: adventures in non-digital media | In my ‘Bathymetric Book,’ mapping meets book arts, where the book is treated as a three dimensional space for creative communication. Representing the underwater relief of Crater Lake in stacked layers of paper, it’s a piece with a tactile quality that no digital map could offer. I will discuss the making of the book and the evolution of its design, as well as the future of the project. Thanks to the positive response that it sparked, I hope to take the design from a unique object to an edition of 50 to 100 copies. I’m tackling this challenge by joining a collaborative makerspace in Madison, Wisconsin, where I have access to a laser cutter and other technology as well as a community for sharing expertise. I’ll describe my progress and the challenges, solutions, and insights generated by this adventure in non-digital cartography. | I don't know, choose for me! | Caroline Rose | I don't know, choose for me! | University of Wisconsin- Madison | |||
The Open-Sourced City: First Steps | Take a look inside the City of Boston’s process of incorporating free and open-source tools into its GIS department. To bring open-source methods and tools into City Hall, we need to integrate open-source libraries with Boston's existing datasets, adopt tools such as GitHub and Heroku for collaboration and hosting, and experiment with new approaches, such as in-browser Python. This change will affect the way open data is created and shared in our city and ideally in many more. We also hope that our story can guide a variety of GIS organizations coming to terms with open source. This talk will cover the early stages of adopting open source in City Hall, with practical experience from two developers from the City of Boston and the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, former Code for America fellows Nick Doiron and Michael Lawrence Evans. | Speaker | Nick Doiron | Michael Lawrence Evans, [email protected], City of Boston, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | City of Boston GIS Department | ||
Achieving Aesthetics in Cartography | Arthur Robinson introduced, informally, a simple appraisal approach. He pointed out that when the map has “snap” … he snapped his fingers … in the initial visual appraisal, it “looks right.” There is nothing that is problematic in the visual impression … all of the pieces and parts are working together, and nothing assumes a position of inappropriate importance. If you explore the work in graphic arts, you find that such a map has “harmony” and “unity,” two of the basic principles of design (along with balance, contrast, emphasis, and more). Maps with “snap” have an aesthetic characteristic. In fact, much of the literature about aesthetics suggests that the aesthetic experience with an object occurs early in the human information processing activity … at the outset, before there is a “perceptual image” (Kosslyn) and definitely before the temporally and intellectually consuming consideration of the map within the cognitive process. | Speaker | George F. McCleary, Jr. | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | University of Kansas | |||
Mapping the Border War in Kansas, 1855-1856 | This map represents the first step in a project to study the spatial and temporal patterns of bushwhacker raids in Territorial Kansas during the period Nov. 1, 1855-Dec. 1 1856. The data comes from Kansas Claims, a publicly available but little known document presented to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1861. This preliminary map locates the 183 damage claims made by residents of Douglas County, where Lawrence, a center of the anti-slavery movement, was a magnet for pro-slavery raiders from Missouri. The ultimate goal is to map all 487 Kansas claims and show not only the dates and dollar amounts of the claims but also the types of property destroyed or stolen. The resulting Internet-accessible map will be accompanied by biographical details about the victims, whose statements vividly evoke the hardships of frontier life. Such eye-witness accounts offer unique insights into early Kansas history. | I don't know, choose for me! | Karen Cook | I don't know, choose for me! | University of Kansas | |||
Exploratory visualization of movement patterns in Twitter data | The cartographic display of movement has a long history and has produced a number of well-known artifacts, including Minard’s flow maps and Hagerstrand’s space-time models. The volume of data associated with modern-day geospatial datasets makes many well-established movement visualization techniques impractical. Multiple new approaches have already been identified, including automated flow map construction, density mapping and edge bundling. However, good cartography depends as much on understanding the properties of data under investigation as it does on development of novel visualization approaches, and understanding millions of records of movement data presents a formidable challenge of its own. In this talk I attempt to address this challenge and will demonstrate a geovisualization environment that supports the free-form exploration of spatial movement patterns in large (millions of records) collections of Twitter data. The resulting environment combines small multiple technique, dynamic, user-controlled animation and on-the-fly filtering of movement data. | I don't know, choose for me! | Alexander Savelyev | Alan MacEachren, [email protected], The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography | ||
Web Mapping Aesthetics for Effectual Communication | In our rush to design maps that users find intuitive and awe-inspiring, less time has been spent looking at Web map design for effective communication. This presentation highlights several key concepts to consider and keep in mind when designing Web maps meant to communicate specific information in an aesthetically effective, memorable manner. It is argued that Web map aesthetics need to be more effectively harnessed to reinforce and promote a map's particular message or argument. Several holistic Web map design suggestions are provided concerning visual hierarchy, map layout, and map element/interface design. The presentation reviews several principles to help Web cartographers craft effectual maps rather than just "cool looking" ones. | Speaker | Ian Muehlenhaus | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse | |||
"Congregational Watersheds" in Atlanta, 1928 | I propose a paper for NACIS 2013 on the Atlanta Maps Project and its potential use in congregational/religious studies. The Atlanta Maps Project of Woodruff Library at Emory University has recreated both the road network of and an absolute geocoder for Atlanta in 1928 based upon historic maps of the city owned by the library. My research combines the geocoder with church directories and census data in order to examine “congregational watersheds”—the area from which a congregation drew its membership. Determining a congregation’s watershed, in turn, allows us to analyze the impact of public and private transportation on church membership patterns. Because the first round of analyses uses five contiguous churches of the same denomination, the “boundaries”—both physical and social—between congregational watersheds may be determined. Incorporation of census data allows for a consideration of the relationship between social class and the size and density of congregational watersheds.I would, moreover, like to present a map for consideration in the Student Map and Poster Competition. | I don't know, choose for me! | Matthew Lawrence Pierce | I don't know, choose for me! | Laney Graduate School, Emory University | |||
Publishing customized global basemaps with MapBox | MapBox provides an easy web interface for creating global custom basemaps and for sharing them online. Basemap features like language, color palettes, opacity, and place of interest markers can be adjusted on the OpenStreetMap-based streets layer and combined with terrain and gorgeous imagery. Because rendering is done dynamically any edits you make to OpenStreetMap will show up within minutes, allowing your customized basemaps to be a living canvas for data you overlay. This talk with demo these features and practical uses for them. | Speaker | Dane Springmeyer | Practical Cartography Day (Weds) | MapBox | |||
Cartography for a Changing Map | Global online basemap design is hard: Taking into account display at multiple zoom levels, regional languages, unique geographical features, high and low density data, and tradeoffs between design and performance creates major challenges for the cartographer. And now, with fast growing and constantly improving sources of data like OpenStreetMap available the challenge, and opportunity, for living basemaps is expanding. This talk asks the question: what techniques can be used to design for changing data? | Speaker | AJ Ashton | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | MapBox | |||
How to use iD editor for easily updating OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap is a fast growing project to create the best free and open map of the world. Recently the iD editor project was launched to provide simple and enjoyable way to learn to edit and contribute data to OSM. Already translated to more than a dozen languages and shipping with an engaging interactive tutorial, this talk will provide a practical introduction to using iD and discuss when to use iD versus the other OSM editors. | Speaker | AJ Ashton | Practical Cartography Day (Weds) | MapBox | |||
Scaled Data Value Design in TileMill | Within TileMill, the expressiveness of CartoCSS labeling and the dynamic power of PostGIS can be combined to present data in ways that build upon and have distinct advantages to choropleth and proportional symbol techniques. In this talk Ian will describe the steps he used to design a unique map of food access per US country using data from the USDA. Details of zoom dependent styling and using SQL for sorting data will be discussed with the goal of fast and easy publishing to the web. | Speaker | Ian Villeda | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | MapBox | |||
A Cloudless Atlas | The Cloudless Atlas is a project of MapBox to create the clearest view of the world from space using 2 years worth of images from NASA’s LANCE-MODIS. The product is uniquely seamless and beautiful map of the world - as if you could see every spot on earth on a gorgeous spring day. This talk will cover the methods used for sifting through over 300 thousand source images to filter out the clouds, sun glints and atmospheric haze to get a clear image of the ground. | Speaker | Dane Springmeyer | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | MapBox | |||
Hands on with TileMill: designing and publishing fast maps online | TileMill is an open source design studio that enables easy publishing of maps online. This workshop will cover the basics of using TileMill - how to load various data formats, how to get quickly learn the CartoCSS styling language, and how to design for various online media and visualizations. It will also highlight new features in the latest releases of TileMill including advanced compositing options, image filters, fast data formats, raster classification, and more. This workshop will be a combination of lecture, demos, and hands on experimentation - so come prepared to learn as a group, ask questions, and make maps on the fly. | Workshop | Ian Villeda | Workshop day | MapBox | |||
3D Map Gotchas | The popularization of GIS makes many computer users instant cartographers. Yet the quality of maps seems out of control, and 3D GIS only seem to have aggravated the problem. However, this may not be apparent to untrained eyes. This paper attempts to analyze pertinent 3D mapping scenarios in the context of data visualization vs. information graphics in the self-exploration to information explanation/presentation continuum. Four layers of data presentations, representation, presentation, visual perception, and cognition amplification are identified to help illustrate the point. It enumerates the advantages and constraints of 3D maps in terms of realistic vs. non-realistic 3D maps in applications using ArcGIS. For XYZ coordinates, or longitude, latitude, and elevation/height in that order, how are they related to each other? How does the Z differ from the XY and how is it best used in a 3D map and in what way? This paper addresses these issues. | Speaker | Jinwu Ma | I don't know, choose for me! | esri, 3D Team | |||
Markets, Neighborhoods, and CartoDB | This presentation will highlight the use of CartoDB in simple industry applications, and for crowd sourced data collection. Work examples will focus on the use of the SQL API. The fun example will focus on using cartoDB to present live crowd sourced data updates as shown at pnwmaps.com/neighborhoods. | Speaker | Nick Martinelli | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | MarketSeer, University of Oregon | |||
Climate Analogue 2 | One year after Portland's conference I will present progress on the mapping of future climate using Leaflet and THREDDS as a WMS server. The future climate viewer presents the analogous climate to a selected point, 40 or 90 years into the future. This is a collaborative project between the University of Oregon, Oregon State University and the USGS. | Speaker | Nick Martinelli | Alethea Steingisser, [email protected], University of OregonJacob Bartruff, [email protected], University of Oregon | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | MarketSeer, University of Oregon | ||
At the Intersection of Maps and Emotion: The Challenge of Spatially Representing Experience | Only relatively recently have cartographers taken up the emotional component of the human relationship with space. Calls for a more humanized version of geospatial technologies have been heard since the mid 1990's (Pickles, 1995). However, only a relatively small proportion of cartographic efforts have been made in this direction because, perhaps, of the difficulties in data collection and representation that mapping emotion entails. This presentation reviews recent humanistic cartography, including the representation of emotion in maps as well as the use of maps to collect emotional data. The role of maps in evoking emotion in map readers is also discussed. Finally, potential future intersections of cartography and emotion are explored. | Speaker | Amy Griffin | Julia McQuoid, [email protected], UNSW Canberra, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | UNSW Canberra | ||
A Practical Introduction to D3 Web Maps | For years, we Cartographers have suffered the burden of watching the high standards of our practice eroded on the Internet by shoddy mash-up after shoddy mash-up. Like Sisyphus we have labored to explain to our bewildered friends and colleagues that, in fact, Web Mercator is not a proper projection for a choropleth map (it isn’t even on an ellipsoid, for god sakes!). Yet, like Plato’s cave men, they merely answer back, “choro-what?” and go on publishing their data on top of Flat-Earth-Society raster tiles. Well, no more shall we sit idly by! Today, thanks to some clever chaps who care about how maps are made on the Web, we have the tools to do better. The presenter, who by no means claims to be an expert, will nevertheless bravely delve into the realm of Mike Bostock’s Data-Driven Documents library, and demonstrate how, with a little learning curve, it can be fun to use and create state-of-the-art, all-vector, good interactive web maps. | Demonstration | Carl Sack | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
The Civil War in Four Minutes | "The Civil War in Four Minutes" follows the course of the war with moving battle lines ranging across a map of the eastern United States. Explosions occur to denote battles, and an "odometer of death" keeps a running total of Union and Confederate casualties as the war progresses. The presentation graphically illustrates warstrategy, campaigns, and the high cost in human lives of the Civil War. from the Abraham Lincoln museum in Springfield, IL | 4 minute film | Valerie Krejcie | http://www.illinois.gov/alplm/Documents/News-2008/dec04_08.pdfJohn Coud is aware that I have submitted this request | Special Session: Cartographies of the South | Cartographic Consultants | ||
Data Driven Cartography | The global open data initiative is one of the best news for mapping professionals. This worldwide initiative is going to allow us to do more productive mapping with over a million datasets now being released by governments around the world. The availability of this open data gave me the opportunity to create a detailed cartographic map of Downtown Vancouver and Downtown Halifax showing property boundaries, addresses, number of floors and block numbers to name a few. I would love to showcase how open data, mapping and cartography drive commercial real estate and would also discuss how open data initiatives have enhanced my mapping projects. | I don't know, choose for me! | Naz Ali | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | ||||
Crowdsourcing a cartography textbook | Open curricula resources (materials that are contributed and distributed without cost or restriction) can be very attractive to faculty and students. However there are many issues: who will be willing to contribute without any promise of reward? How will accuracy and quality be ensured? I have been experimenting with having students writing textbook-style content for introductory cartographic design in the form of public wiki encyclopedia articles in fulfillment of readings assignments. There are issues, but the approach has promise for generating basic content. | Speaker | Plewe Brandon | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Brigham Young University | |||
EnvisionTheJames.org: A National Geographic Living Atlas | Overview of National Geographic's "Living Atlas" platform using the example of EnvisionTheJames.org. This multimedia publishing and engagement platform combines collections of interactive maps, articles, multimedia "geostories" and map-based "geopolls" to support an initiative to engage communities across Virginia's James River watershed in creating a collective vision for protecting, restoring, and promoting the region's natural and cultural heritage. | Frank Biasi | David Lambert , [email protected], NG Maps | I don't know, choose for me! | National Geographic Maps | |||
The Interwoven Relationship Between Cartography and Dialectology: New Perspectives | Dialectologists have been employing cartographic representations of dialect areas since the beginning of their explorations at the end of the nineteenth century. Their main focus has usually been to accurately and practically report collected linguistic data behavior on a map, which seldom left space to refined map design. The goal of this paper is to draw an overview of current trends in cartographic representations for dialect research as well as as to provide new perspectives in the integration of dialect data and beautiful representations of effective linguistic maps. Innovative visualization models of regional linguistic variation in California English and in Italian will be discussed. | I don't know, choose for me! | Costanza Asnaghi | I don't know, choose for me! | QLVL, Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven; Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. | |||
Maps for Strangers | Catherine Delano Smith's early history of navigational maps in Europe suggests that maps only became a popular form of geographic communication as people began to navigate themselves: in other words, when they divested themselves (or were divested) of human guides. This in turn suggests that navigational maps as a form are primarily tools for strangers. Like other reference tools (e.g. recipes and IKEA assembly instructions) they posit an anonymous every-person user, with no personal attachment to the place described. Like other reference tools, they serve to give us a sense of security as we become familiar with a new physical or conceptual territory. And yet, while we use maps most often to answer questions about places we do not know, we often enjoy and appreciate maps of places we know and love. Why is this? What is our relationship to the map as a stranger and a friend? How does the ubiquity of maps this affect our relationship to the world in general? | Speaker | Nat Case | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | INCase, LLC | |||
MarineCadastre.gov: An Ocean of Information | Within the past decade, marine spatial planning efforts have gained momentum, especially in the realm of offshore renewable energy. The increased interest led to a need for authoritative ocean data and a place to house it.MarineCadastre.gov was developed to fulfill this need through a partnership between the NOAA Coastal Services Center (Department of Commerce) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Department of the Interior). The website was designed to support offshore renewable energy siting, but it’s also being used for other ocean-related efforts. MarineCadastre.gov is an integrated marine information system that provides data, tools, and technical support for ocean and Great Lakes planning. Most of the project effort focuses on data discovery, delivery, and access. The data, which come from a variety of data partners, are compiled into a data registry, the website’s National Viewer, and the map gallery. | Speaker | Anna Verrill | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | I.M. Systems Group, NOAA Coastal Services Center | |||
Refining national tick distribution maps for public health communication | Maps are invaluable for communicating information produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This presentation reports on our ongoing effort to refine the design of maps for the CDC website showing the national distribution of ticks of public health importance. We survey the cartographic styles historically used for printed tick maps; show the progression of design styles developed for CDC tick maps; and discuss map design decisions in light of producer and user needs and expectations. Specifically, map producers have been interested in improving the visual communication of spatial uncertainty about tick distributions due to the limited spatial and temporal scale of tick survey data. While the revised maps have been widely seen, receiving 90,000 page views over the last 12 months, users studies are needed to validate design decisions in light of changing user demands and expectations of federal government produced maps and geospatial data. | Speaker | R. Ryan Lash | William Nicholson, [email protected], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Centers for Disease Control, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, and University of Georgia, Geography Department | ||
Visualizing Domestic Energy Consumption of the UK | Growing populations and pressure to reduce worldwide CO2 emissions has lead to an increased need to better understand the key drivers of domestic energy consumption. Despite energy consumption being a popular research topic in recent years, there is still a limited understanding on the relationship between energy use and measurable characteristics of the population. This presentation, of a UK-based PhD research project, reports on the exploration of this issue using data classification and geo-visualization techniques to identify geographic and demographic variations in domestic energy consumption characteristics. Such data classification enhances the ability to segment the domestic energy market, allowing for utility companies to group their consumers by typical traits and provide more tailored tariffs and services, while also enabling consumers to more reliably understand their household’s usage against others. | Speaker | Sarah Goodwin | Professor Jason Dykes, [email protected], City University London, School of Informatics, giCentre | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | giCentre, School of Informatics, City University London, United Kingdom | ||
An Open Source Workflow for Building Online Maps | At the National Park Service, we are implementing an open source workflow for the maps we create for the web. During this presentation I will discuss the suite of tools that we’ve adopted for our maps including tools we use for data management and design. In addition, I will discuss the Park Service’s adoption of OpenStreetMap and how we are incorporating these data into our mapping products and overall data collection efforts. | Speaker | Mamata Akella | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | National Park Service | |||
The State of Topographic Mapping of Latin America | I would like to give an overview of the state of large-scale topographic mapping of all of the territory in the Western Hemisphere south of the United States (primarily Latin America). This includes national and colonial maps as well as American and Russian military maps. Also included will be the use of some online free resources and the importance of indexes. The ease or difficulty of data acquisition will be discussed. Formats (paper and digital) and copyright concerns will be addressed, as well as currency of the maps. I will be using PowerPoint and MapInfo and perhaps the World Wide Web. | I don't know, choose for me! | Geoffrey A. Forbes, MS | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping | |||
ATLMaps - Building a research and community focused mapping platform | ATLMaps is a collaborative research and community focused mapping tool which aims to bring together disparate information types for visualization in a single web accessible experience. The platform integrates historical maps, user generated content, and quantitative information to provide new interactions and relationships for seemingly unrelated geospatial content. | Speaker or Demo Works, also could be part of a proposed panel | Jack Reed | Brennan Collins, [email protected], Georgia State University, Department of EnglishTimothy Hawthorn, [email protected], Georgia State University, Department of GeosciencesJoseph Hurley, [email protected], Georgia State University, University LibraryBen Miller, [email protected], Georgia State University, Department of English | I don't know, choose for me! | Georgia State University, Department of Geosciences | ||
Relating Hill Shading to Terrain Metrics | Hill shading assigns shades of gray to terrain elements based on an illumination vector and the orientation of surfaces, which can be expressed in terms of slope and aspect. Surfaces with steeper slopes and aspects oriented away from the direction of illumination are generally hill shaded in darker shades of gray. Traditional hill shading , however, does not account for the elevation of surface elements, or the effect of nearby terrain elements. Using illumination throughout the sky (sky models) for hill shading results in surrounding terrain blocking some sky illumination, generally following the principle of “the less sky visible, the darker.” The resulting hill shadings show some correlation of shades of gray to elevation, as well as different patterns of shades of gray to slope and aspect. | Speaker | Patrick Kennelly | James [email protected] University | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | LIU Post | ||
An updated and improved World Hydro Basemap | The World Hydro Basemap is a reference map of our world’s surface water. The map has been around for nearly 3 years, each year progressing further. In 2013, the map underwent a complete review and redesign, resulting in a more powerful reference map. In addition to updating the US scales with the latest NHDPlus data, a number of cartographic improvements were made regarding feature generalization, labeling, symbology, and feature density. The World Hydro Basemap emphasizes surface water features helping readers understand relatively how much water is present in each river as well as the general relationship between the overland drainage pattern and the landscape. Use this authoritative basemap in your water projects. | Speaker | Caitlin Scopel | Wes Jones, [email protected], Esri, Cartographic Product Engineer | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Esri, Hydro Team | ||
Maps in Honduran Mosquitia for Collaborative Local Expressions of Territoriality and the Environment | From 2007 through 2013, students at the University of Kansas, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Herlihy, have worked with indigenous leaders from the Miskitu and Tawahka regions of Honduras to create maps which express the territorial concepts of local peoples through local-language toponyms (place names) and land use locations. Data sources included extensive participatory mapping work conducted in the late 1990s as well as recent remote sensing imagery. The maps, in both paper and digital form, are already proving to be valuable tools as the region's residents interact with Honduran government agencies and other stakeholders during the present time of important land tenure (ownership) changes and clarifications, including changes regarding the role of conservation protected areas (e.g., the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve). | I don't know, choose for me! | John Kelly | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | University of Kansas | |||
Storm Uncertainty Representation: User Responses to Novel Visualization | Numerous existing hurricane visualizations represent spatial uncertainties (e.g. uncertainty in magnitude, the central track, etc.) that vary for different upcoming points in time. Several studies have evaluated current hurricane visualizations and found common misinterpretations among the general public. We present new hurricane visualizations that utilize existing data from the National Hurricane Center Database aiming to represent hurricane track and magnitude uncertainty in ways that make these misinterpretations less likely. This study evaluates these new designs and their effect on users including preferences, readability, and behavioral intention. The uncertainty visualizations are inspired by existing cartographic and uncertainty techniques with the goal of: 1) increasing the readability of maps so that users can more accurately identify and compare spatial uncertainties among different locations with increased confidence and 2) assessing how these visualizations impact user perceptions and behavioral intention for an approaching hurricane. | Speaker | Jennifer Mason | Jason Dykes, [email protected], giCentre, City University LondonJo Wood, [email protected], giCentre, City University LondonAidan Slingsby, [email protected], giCentre, City University London | I don't know, choose for me! | Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University | ||
The State of Topographic Mapping of Latin America | I would like to give an overview of the state of large-scale topographic mapping of all of the territory in the Western Hemisphere south of the United States (primarily Latin America). This includes national and colonial maps as well as American and Russian military maps. Also included will be the use of some online free resources and the importance of indexes. The ease or difficulty of data acquisition will be discussed. Formats (paper and digital) and copyright concerns will be addressed, as well as currency of the maps. I will be using PowerPoint and MapInfo and perhaps the World Wide Web. | I don't know, choose for me! | Geoffrey A. Forbes, MS | Cartographic and Geographic Data Collections (Weds) | LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping | |||
Mapping Maritime Limits | Over the last couple of decades, the effort to define maritime boundaries and limits, both political and economic, has exploded as countries with coastlines seek to exploit the economic resources of the world’s oceans and seas. Knowledge of the principles behind mapping maritime limits is a growing asset to the professional cartographer. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the most important mechanism for defining the economic rights of countries to maritime space, is not well understood by many, including cartographers who are asked to map maritime limits. This presentation is meant to be a basic primer on UNCLOS and the principles behind it as they relate to the working cartographer. | Speaker | Leo Dillon | Iain Crawford, [email protected], US State Department Office of the Geographer | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | US State Department, Office of the Geographer | ||
Citation Explorer: Cartography Textbooks | Citation analysis and mapping create a new perspective on the development of academic cartography in the United States. The titles cited by cartography texts produce a web of citations that entwines the texts across decades and authors. The web converges on some titles, perhaps exposing them as core readings in cartography, and displays a pattern of outliers, rarely-cited items. Examining the topics of the titles cited by English-language texts published between 1900 and 2010 highlights changes in map-making technology as the discipline has moved from a hand-drawn art to a computing-driven merger of art and science. Additionally, changes in publication practices, as scholars have moved away from focusing on book-length titles to articles and participation in contributed and edited volumes, are displayed. | Speaker | Jenny Marie Johnson | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library | |||
Lessons Learned from Experimental Film | During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, American avant-garde filmmakers expanded the boundaries of cinema by experimenting with perception, duration, and narrative expectations. The libraries and frameworks for online mapping have evolved to a point where an examination of how these experimental film strategies might be applied to interactive cartography seems ripe. This presentation will pair maps with canonical film works of the American avant-garde, and might well form the core of an impractical cartography day. | Session | Eric Theise | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | ||||
The Contemporary Web Mapping Application | This workshop will be a front-to-back-to-front-again examination of a contemporary approach to building web mapping applications. Moving briskly, we'll cover sources of open data (Natural Earth & OpenStreetMap), a client-side mapping library (Leaflet), tile creation (TileMill), and geospatial databases (PostgreSQL and PostGIS), as well as enhancements for performance and maintainability, such as TopoJSON, JavaScript model-view-controller frameworks, and tools and strategies for caching. Participants should be prepared to do some work in advance of the workshop--downloading recommended software and doing some background reading--and should bring a laptop to the workshop. | Workshop | Eric Theise | I don't know, choose for me! | ||||
Getting Rid of Consumers of Furry Pornography*, or How to Find Small Stories With Big Data | Although the onset of Web 2.0 and the Geoweb has given geographers and cartographers a myriad of novel and rich spatial data sources, it remains a challenge to use that data in meaningful ways. Not helped by the limited capabilities of the early online mapping frameworks, many maps based on Geoweb data fall prey to xkcd’s pet peeve #208*: they are basically reflecting underlying population. Although this is not necessarily a problem, it often obscures much more interesting smaller spatial phenomena. Partly based on DOLLY, an ongoing effort to collect, analyze and visualize spatial big data in meaningful ways at the University of Kentucky, I present a methodology that allows one to visually tease out these smaller, interesting, spatial phenomena from large (millions of data points) spatial datasets in an interactive environment.* http://xkcd.com/1138/ | I don't know, choose for me! | Ate Poorthuis | I don't know, choose for me! | University of Kentucky // FloatingSheep | |||
USGS GEOPDF Topo Quads: A Critique | I will compare a selection of USGS topo map versions from a range of years to document improvements and shortcomings in the new GEOPDF format topo quad. The area of interest will be the Sierra Nevada range of California. | Poster | Martin Gamache | Poster | National Geographhic Magazine | |||
Designing a slippy map base layer for Humantiarian and Developing countries' Context using OSM Data | We've created a base layer online slippy map of OSM (OpenStreetMap) Data designed for humanitarian and developing countries' contexts. See: http://hotosm.github.io/HDM-CartoCSS for a model of it and https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-CartoCSS/ for the source. | I don't know, choose for me! | Will Skora | Yohan Boniface, [email protected], Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Lead Designer Brian Wolford, [email protected], Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Tagging and Data Specialist Severin Menard, [email protected] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap TeamJaakko Helleranta, [email protected], Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | I don't know, choose for me! | HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) | ||
Designing an online multi-scale map service (using lasers) | Metro has redesigned its Metro Map application using a newbasemap that leverages the strengths of ArcMap’sadvanced cartographic toolset. This new multi-scale setof map tiles include tapered streams, multiple directionoblique weighted hillshading, highest-hit LiDAR shading,vegetation coloring, mixed-case labels and more. MultiscaleMaplex rules provide an elegant set of labels thatcan be layered effectively over operational layersresulting in a properly designed map service. UsingRLIS data that is updated quarterly, Metro’s new mapservice provides a visually appealing and authoritativebasemap for your data. This presentation will focus onthe cartographic workflow and tools (including lasers) used to create thismulti-scale map of our region. | I don't know, choose for me! | Matthew Hampton | I don't know, choose for me! | Oregon Metro | |||
Empowering users by designing with empathy | Any talk about designing digital products has to address the problems users are facing now to empower them with better tools tomorrow. Learn from a case study of a web application design that started with a handful of user interviews and how provisional mental models uncovered a key feature that pivoted the definition of the solution. See ways to uncover user problems in narrow timeframes and how empathy, not sympathy, can motivate designers, product managers and developers to collaborate on solutions. Discover how employing empathy in user testing can lead to validation of solutions using just prototypes. | Speaker | Karla Turcios | I don't know, choose for me! | esri | |||
Esri StoryMaps | Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform provides a well-designed foundation for GIS users and the public to create beautiful maps using professional cartography. These maps can be used within online applications and templates that are expertly crafted to facilitate simple, logical and intuitive geographic stories.We will showcase some of the templates that are specifically designed for storytelling, how to use them and why you or your clients might want to utilize them. These apps encourage better cartography through well thought-out design and through intuitive interfaces. | PCD Demonstration | David Asbury | Allen Carroll, [email protected], Esri, Story Maps | Practical Cartography Day (Weds) | Esri, Story Maps | ||
Telling geographic stories with Story Map templates | Enabled by cloud, web, and mobile technologies, GIS has burst from the back office to serve and benefit everyone. Much of the time GIS data is thought of as just that – data – and is all too often displayed with poor symbolization. We’ll show how you can liberate those data using well-designed cartography, combine them with dynamic multimedia and incorporate them into online apps to tell personal, organizational and professional stories.We’ll describe how we approach map-based storytelling, and demonstrate how to use Esri’s storytelling apps and templates to present beautiful, useful interactive maps and place-based narratives. Among the topics we’ll cover: What makes a good story map? How can you conceive, plan, and build an effective story map? How can you use Esri’s storytelling apps and templates to author your own story? | I don't know, choose for me! | David Asbury | Allen Carroll, [email protected], Esri, Story Maps | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Esri, Story Maps | ||
Speedy Delivery: Vector Tiles from Open Data | Pre-rendered Bitmap tiles are old news. Vector data tiles rendered right in your browser are emerging from the open source software community, catching up to the high-speed, beautiful and low-bandwidth cartography already available in mobile map applications like Google and Apple Maps. The OpenStreetMap US Foundation is supporting work on global, up-to-date tiled vector data available now. This is a speculative talk about a possible near future for digital maps. I’ll cover data formats like GeoJSON and TopoJSON, free data sources like OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth Data, rendering environments like D3 and WebGL, and new rendering community experiments pushing the boundaries of digital cartography and data distribution. | Speaker | Michal Migurski | I don't know, choose for me! | Code for America | |||
Automated attribute enrichment for automated multiscale maps | Automated generalization procedures often depend on ancillary data for calibration. Typically these data do not prexist, and need to be calculated within and between map layers. This research presents several examples of using automated procedures to calculate such data for multiscale topographic map making. Within ArcGIS, data are ingested into Python script tools automating the calculation of either geomorphologic or cultural attributes for each map feature. Data are stored in new attribute fields. The fields are then referenced by scale-specific SQL queries while producing multiscale map layers. Example data calculated in this research include summit prominence, airport relative importance and type, and roadway network traffic and labeling class (given many route des! ignations). We then demonstrate the use of these data in multi! scale ma p making. | Speaker | Paulo Raposo | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Penn State, Department of Geography | |||
CartoDB title tk tk tk | CartoDB an open source mapping platform that gives users the ability to design and publish maps online. CartoDB stands apart from other platforms in its ability to deliver maps built from dynamic data, styles, and filters. In this workshop, we will walk you through CartoDB, from the core features through to publishing dynamic maps that respond to changes in your data. | Workshop | Andrew Hill | Workshop day | Vizzuality | |||
Metro Atlas 2010 | We review the Census 2000 Metro Atlas prototype and describe Esri's current adaptation of the design with 2010 data for web-based publication. Comprehensive national coverage at the block-group level and the potential range of comparative analyses raise many scale / design issues: this will be a status report on progress to date. | Speaker | Stuart Allan | Aileen Buckley, [email protected] | Main Conference (Thurs, Friday) | Allan Cartography |