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2022 Hunter College Seminar in Geoinformatics

Alan McConchie
May 04, 2022
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2022 Hunter College Seminar in Geoinformatics

Guest lecture at GTECH 708: Seminar in Geoinformatics

Alan McConchie

May 04, 2022
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  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

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  2. Thoughts on open-source mappin
    g

    and working at Stamen Design
    Doing Cartograph
    y

    as a Professional Amateur?

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  3. Pop vs Soda
    PopVsSoda.com

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  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

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  6. Map mashups, "neogeography"
    ,

    and Volunteered Geographic Information
    ChicagoCrime.org (2005
    )

    HousingMaps.com (2005)

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  7. Image: Tom Carden and Steve Coast, 2005
    OpenStreetMap

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  8. OpenStreetMap

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  9. OpenStreetMap: Every Line Eve
    r

    sta.mn / rzx

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  10. amateurs...?

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  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

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  14. ...expert amateurs?

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  15. Research at the University
    of British Columbia

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  16. Vancouver [de]Tour Guide 2010

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  17. Occupy Vancouver in OpenStreetMap

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  18. Balloon mapping with Public Lab

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  24. Starting at Stamen Design

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  25. maps.stamen.co
    m

    data from OpenStreetMa
    p

    sponsored by the Knight Foundation

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  26. maps.stamen.com / toner

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    maps.stamen.com / toner

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    maps.stamen.com / toner

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    maps.stamen.com / toner

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  30. maps.stamen.com / terrain

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  31. maps.stamen.com / terrain

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  32. maps.stamen.com / terrain

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  33. maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  34. maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  35. "maps for dawdling
    ,

    not for navigation"
    maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  36. maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  37. professional amateurs?
    maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  38. maps.stamen.com / watercolor

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  39. climate.audubon.org (2014)
    Stamen client work
    :

    Mapping climate change with
    the Audubon Society

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  40. climate.audubon.org (2014)

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  45. climate.audubon.org (2019)

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  47. A tour of Stamen projects
    through the years
    American Panoram
    a

    dsl.richmond.edu / panoram
    a

    sta.mn / drb

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  48. American Panoram
    a

    dsl.richmond.edu / panoram
    a

    sta.mn / drb

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  49. American Panorama
    dsl.richmond.edu / panoram
    a

    sta.mn / drb

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  50. Surging Seas

    sealevel.climatecentral.or
    g

    sta.mn / 7bh

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  52. MPG Ranch RaptorMa
    p

    raptortracker.mpgranch.co
    m

    sta.mn / 24k

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  53. National Geographic Amazoni
    a

    nationalgeographic.com / climate-change / explore-amazoni
    a

    sta.mn / 64

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  54. Culture Compas
    s

    culturecompass.or
    g

    sta.mn / f78

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  55. Superdiversity:
    superdiv.mmg.mpg.d
    e

    sta.mn / 4vz

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  56. visualization.covid19mobility.org (April 2020)
    Recent work: mapping
    mobility during COVID

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  57. visualization.covid19mobility.org (April 2020)

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  58. visualization.covid19mobility.org (June 2020)

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  59. Mobility trends as small
    multiples
    Stay-at-home
    percentage
    Relative change in
    mobility

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  60. Wanted: map projections for the US
    (the whole US)


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  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

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  62. Labels
    Label data must be reprojected too.


    Note how county labels only appear


    for the currently-active state.


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  63. FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard (US only)
    NUTS: Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques (Europe only)
    GADM: Database of Global Administrative Areas (worldwide)

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  68. Meta (Facebook) basemap using OpenStreetMap dat
    a

    sta.mn / k7f

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  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:

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  71. Tile renderer
    (Mapnik)
    Feature layers
    (CSV, GeoJSON,
    TopoJSON, KML)
    Leaflet
    (or OpenLayers)
    Tile cache / server
    (TileServer, TileStache,
    Tessera)
    Database
    (PostGIS)
    Raster tiles




    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

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  72. Thank you!
    [email protected]


    @mappingmashup
    s

    @stamen

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