Here are some notes and references this talk at O'Reilly's Fluent 2018
June 14th, 1:10-1:30pm
you are [w]here?: geospatial web dev off the beaten
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.
See here.
- Photo by John Baker on Unsplash
- Image <maps> yo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/map
- AU (Photo by Aaron Munoz on Unsplash)
- Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
- Talking Heads shoutout..whoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMPIxEWGs5g
- 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
- Gif of Rainbow Buildings theme for Tangram (NYC): https://github.com/tangrams/tangram
- Aurelia's bl.ocks account: https://bl.ocks.org/auremoser
- Geospatial Data & Analysis: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/geospatial-data-and/9781491984314/
- Photo by Ian Kim on Unsplash
- Mozilla's Glass Room: https://theglassroomnyc.org/
- New York City - Glass Room: https://tacticaltech.org/projects/the-glass-room-nyc/
- Glass Room Exhibition: https://theglassroom.org/exhibit/
- Disputed Territories: http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/
- Source Blogpost on Disputed Territories: https://source.opennews.org/articles/meet-disputed-territories-and-ssn-redactor/
- Disputed Territories, http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/
- Source Blogpost on Disputed Territories: https://source.opennews.org/articles/meet-disputed-territories-and-ssn-redactor/
- 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
- PornHub Geocoding errors exposé: https://source.opennews.org/articles/distrust-your-data/
- 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
- Falshoods programmers believe about addresses: http://tinyurl.com/faux-geo
- Various projections in North America, first published in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Projections-North-America.png
- Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
- Shannon Mattern, "Databodies in Code Space," Places Journal: https://placesjournal.org/article/databodies-in-codespace/
PAPER PARADIGMS IN THE WWW.EB
- Paper-web, Iraq War Prints by James Bridle: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/sets/72157624693833091/with/4932088038/
- 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
- Monsters in mappa mundi: http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/hereford-mappa-mundi-legendary-cities-monstrous-races-beasts020328
- Mapzen, Who's on First, Mapping with Bias: https://whosonfirst.org/blog/2016/08/15/mapping-with-bias/
- National Aquarium - easy to ignore what we cannot see: https://twitter.com/natlaquarium/status/472463764521254912?lang=en
- 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/
- Entertin repo: https://github.com/auremoser/entertin/
- 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
- 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
- Bringing human perspective to machine maps
- Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash
- HOT, Missing Maps: http://www.missingmaps.org/
- 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
- Development Seed, Sensing Urban Change: https://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2018/05/15/sensing-urban-change/
- 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
- 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
- Geosandbox: http://jk-lee.com/geosandbox/
- Enterin, WI on What3Words: http://w3w.co/ended.conquest.reached
- Entertin featured on @all3words, bot: https://twitter.com/all3words/status/1005925548638588938
- Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash
- 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
- Photo by Morvanic Lee on Unsplash
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