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What is a Map

What is a Map

FOSS4G-NA 2015

Andrew W Hill

March 19, 2015
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  1. Map?
    What is a
    the progress and future of the
    popular map

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  4. A little background

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  6. BIOLOGIST

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  8. DEVELOPER

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  10. MAPPER

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  17. BUILDING TOOLS TO HELP
    PEOPLE GAIN AND SHARE
    INSIGHTS FROM DATA

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  19. BUT WHY MAPS?

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  25. HOME
    POOL

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  26. HOME
    POOL

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  28. http://bit.ly/ZaqMZY

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  30. HOW DID WE GET HERE
    AND WHERE IS THIS
    GOING?

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  31. Begin at the beginning and go on
    till you come to the end: then stop.
    Lewis Carrol

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  32. 10 minutes
    3 hours
    8000 years

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  33. THE MAPS AS
    REPRESENTATION OF
    PLACE

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  34. 8000 years ago

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  35. 2500 years ago

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  36. GEOGRAPHY AND MATH

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  37. Eratosthenes
    Eratosthenes

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  40. POWER & MONEY

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  42. “DISTORT PREDICTABLY”
    BECOMES THE MOTO OF MAP
    MAKERS EVERYWHERE

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  45. distort predictably

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  46. 1569

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  48. THE RACE IS ON

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  49. More indigenous territory has been claimed
    by maps than by guns. This assertion has its
    corollary: more indigenous territory can be
    defended and reclaimed by maps than by guns
    Bernard Nietschmann

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  52. MAPS JOIN DATA

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  57. 1870

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  58. 1855

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  60. DATA DRIVEN MAP

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  61. 1946

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  63. 1973

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  64. THE BEGINNING OF THE END

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  69. GIS

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  70. 1989

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  71. 1993

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  72. 1996

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  73. 2004
    SLippymap!

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  74. 2005

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  75. http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html

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  77. “Mashup”

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  85. 2013

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  86. Crazy
    Geo gone

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  96. WTH MAPS?

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  97. WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE
    MAP TODAY THAN THE MAP
    5, 50, OR 500 YEARS AGO?

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  98. 1. MAPS AND PLAYFUL

    DESIGN

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  100. WEB DESIGN CARTOGRAPHY

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  104. peter desmet

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  110. 2. MAPS ARE MOVING
    BEYOND HISTORY

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  123. 3. A DIFFERENT MAP FOR

    EVERY VIEWER

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  126. Same address, same boundaries no matter what
    service is providing the tile
    credit Alan McConchie & Beth Schechter

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  127. Crimea
    What you see in
    Russia
    What you see in
    Ukraine
    We work to provide as much discoverable information as possible so
    that users can make their own judgments about geopolitical disputes

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  129. In CartoDB, the tile can change 100% per request
    What you see What I see

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  130. SQL API

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  131. Dynamic

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  132. 4. DISAPPEARING ACT

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  135. all joking aside

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  139. FINALLY

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  140. WELCOME TO THE
    NEW AGE OF MAPS

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  141. Thank you!
    @andrewxhill
    [email protected]

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