Crowdsourcing and open data/tools have enabled the rise of neocartography, where non-traditional mapmakers create custom maps for various purposes. This new generation of mappers relies on crowdsourced data from sites like OpenStreetMap to make maps for advocacy, telling stories with data, and personal interests. Rather than focusing on design, neocartographers prioritize accessing and presenting data in new ways. This new approach has significantly diversified mapmaking since 2005.
1. Is There a New Cartography?
Steve Chilton
Middlesex University
Educational Development Manager
2. “Since 2005, the world has been
consolidating around mainly one map.
We look forward to undoing that in the
near future.”
Eric Gundersen, CEO of MapBox
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/brand-connect/wp/2013/07/22/the-new-cartographers/
6. ICA Commission on Neocartography
“The term neocartographers is being used to
describe map makers who may not have come
from traditional mapping backgrounds, and
are frequently using open data and open
source mapping tools.”
http://neocartography.icaci.org/mission-and-aims/
7. 1 - Crowdsourcing
“Using the general public to do research or
other work, which may or may not be paid ....
the term may also refer to user-generated
content.”
http://dictionary.zdnet.com/definition/Crowdsourcing.html
10. “... maps are effective advocacy tools because they tether
abstract ideas to real life.” Andrew Turner
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/what-happens-when-everyone-makes-maps/277850/
http://www.mapkibera.org/
12. ICA Commission on Neocartography
“The availability of data and tools allows
neocartographers to make their own
maps, show what they want, and often be the
intended audience as well – that is to say they
may make the maps for themselves, just
because they can.”
http://neocartography.icaci.org/mission-and-aims/
14. 3 - Data
“... users ultimately want to get at data quickly
and easily. They don’t care as much about
attractive sites and pretty design.”
Tim Berners-Lee
18. http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2012/07/lives-on-the-line/
At the start of the journey life expectancy
falls by two months a minute. Between
the first four stations every second spent
moving on the train is exactly a day off
their lives in terms of how long people
living beside the tracks can expect to live.
Danny Dorling, The 32 Stops, Lives on London’s Central Line
24. There is a New Cartography
Steve Chilton
Middlesex University
steve8@mdx.ac.uk
Notas del editor
Chair of Society of CartographersChair of the ICA Commission on Neocartography
Term ‘new cartography’: New cartography also used by Jerry Brotton about Ptolemy and by Arno Peters in 1983 as title for the manifesto for his projection as it was being pushed.
A bit of historyNote the dress code of the time being adhered to – tank topRotring pens, scribing – both revolutionary in their way
Revolution in the 1960sSYMAP and this guy – who started a company that has had a bit of impact
Default map – even for this conference website
Three catalysts of change
THE best example of crowdsourced mapping dataSome of you may recognise this location
Effective and affective mappingCrowd-sourced mapping for local/social changeAndrew’s quote not directly about Map Kibera
Emotional mapping – early example of non-institutional data collectionCitizen Science movement – Mapping for Change project @UCL
If you don’t know any of these they may be worth looking atSee most of them used in the following examples
TBL: Talking about web users, but I would argue it can be applied to some of today’s cartographic developments.Map design v map-out-there – ref ICA workshop
Student projectData from Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFiltering, fade-bar, popups
Ollie O’BrienOyster card checkins/outsAnimation of one 24 hour period
Ollie againBarclay’s/Boris bike scheme in London‘Live’ data on bikes in/out of bike stationsHighlights Waterloo Station, one of the busiest bike locationsHas maps for all similar bike schemes globally
James CheshireLife expectancy dataIndex of deprivationQuote from Danny Dorling, President of the Society of Cartographers
Work of Andrew HillNew York City data released after considerable lobbying
Animated map by Point.B StudioNational Digital Forecast Database
A guy called BrendanFringe Arts Bath FestivalData requested from mapmyrun (tagged public)Has OSM background layer switchableSee the good off-road places to run
Map animation by ‘Old Weather’Crowdsourced data from Royal Navy captain’s logs from the 1st World War