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
   

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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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27. 27
    maps.stamen.com / toner
    

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28. 28
    maps.stamen.com / toner
    

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29. 29
    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!
    alan@stamen.com
    
    
    @mappingmashup
    s
    
    @stamen
    

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