2022 Hunter College Seminar in Geoinformatics

Guest lecture at GTECH 708: Seminar in Geoinformatics

Transcript

1. Doing Cartograph y as a Professional Amateur Alan McConchi e Lead Cartographe r Stamen Design @mappingmashups // @stame n Seminar in GeoInformatic s Hunter College, May 4, 2022
2. Thoughts on open-source mappin g and working at Stamen Design Doing Cartograph y as a Professional Amateur?
3. Pop vs Soda PopVsSoda.com
5. Mapping West Nile Virus at CARSI lab Early Warning System for West Nile Virus Risk Areas (2011) Carney et al. , Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases
6. Map mashups, "neogeography" , and Volunteered Geographic Information ChicagoCrime.org (2005 ) HousingMaps.com (2005)
7. Image: Tom Carden and Steve Coast, 2005 OpenStreetMap
8. OpenStreetMap
9. • OpenStreetMap: Every Line Eve r sta.mn / rzx
10. amateurs...?
11. De fi nition of amateur 1. one who engages in a pursuit, study, science, or sport as a pastime rather than as a profession. • She played soccer as an amateur before turning professional. • a tournament that is open to both amateurs and professionals 2. one lacking in experience and competence in an art or science. • The people running that company are a bunch of amateurs. • He's a mere amateur when it comes to cooking. 3. devotee, admirer. • I am a philologist or amateur of the language … —Phillip Howard merriam-webster.com
14. ...expert amateurs?
15. Research at the University of British Columbia
16. Vancouver [de]Tour Guide 2010
17. Occupy Vancouver in OpenStreetMap
18. Balloon mapping with Public Lab
24. Starting at Stamen Design
25. maps.stamen.co m data from OpenStreetMa p sponsored by the Knight Foundation
26. maps.stamen.com / toner
27. 27 maps.stamen.com / toner
28. 28 maps.stamen.com / toner
29. 29 maps.stamen.com / toner
30. maps.stamen.com / terrain
31. maps.stamen.com / terrain
32. maps.stamen.com / terrain
33. maps.stamen.com / watercolor
34. maps.stamen.com / watercolor
35. "maps for dawdling , not for navigation" maps.stamen.com / watercolor
36. maps.stamen.com / watercolor
37. professional amateurs? maps.stamen.com / watercolor
38. maps.stamen.com / watercolor
39. climate.audubon.org (2014) Stamen client work : Mapping climate change with the Audubon Society
40. climate.audubon.org (2014)
45. climate.audubon.org (2019)
47. A tour of Stamen projects through the years American Panoram a dsl.richmond.edu / panoram a sta.mn / drb
48. American Panoram a dsl.richmond.edu / panoram a sta.mn / drb
49. American Panorama dsl.richmond.edu / panoram a sta.mn / drb
50. Surging Seas
 sealevel.climatecentral.or g sta.mn / 7bh
52. MPG Ranch RaptorMa p raptortracker.mpgranch.co m sta.mn / 24k
53. National Geographic Amazoni a nationalgeographic.com / climate-change / explore-amazoni a sta.mn / 64
54. Culture Compas s culturecompass.or g sta.mn / f78
55. Superdiversity: superdiv.mmg.mpg.d e sta.mn / 4vz
56. visualization.covid19mobility.org (April 2020) Recent work: mapping mobility during COVID
57. visualization.covid19mobility.org (April 2020)
58. visualization.covid19mobility.org (June 2020)
59. Mobility trends as small multiples Stay-at-home percentage Relative change in mobility
60. Wanted: map projections for the US (the whole US)
61. Albers USA + Territories map projection now available: github.com / stamen / geo-albers-usa-territorie s npmjs.com / package / geo-albers-usa-territorie s sta.mn / n7x
62. Labels Label data must be reprojected too. Note how county labels only appear for the currently-active state.
63. FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard (US only) NUTS: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques (Europe only) GADM: Database of Global Administrative Areas (worldwide)
68. Meta (Facebook) basemap using OpenStreetMap dat a sta.mn / k7f
70. QGIS PostGIS CartoCS S Leaflet OpenLayers TileMil l D3.js GeoJSON OpenStreetMa p MapboxGL Tangra m Maptime t-shir t sta.mn / v32 Just a few open source mapping tools and format s we've used over the years:
71. Tile renderer (Mapnik) Feature layers (CSV, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML) Leaflet (or OpenLayers) Tile cache / server (TileServer, TileStache, Tessera) Database (PostGIS) Raster tiles <HTML> <javascript> <css> </HTML> Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE) Styling language (CartoCSS) Vector data tiles OpenGL / WebGL Map Renderers (MapboxGL, Tangram) D3.js javascript mapping libraries javascript mapping libraries {.js} {.js} (non-map charts) canvas svg "Anatomy of a Web Map " #maptime lesson (circa 2016 ) sta.mn / qhg
72. Thank you! alan@stamen.com @mappingmashup s @stamen