Maps, Lies and Storytelling | P02| Selective History of Maps

An attempt to cover some major technologies that got us from there to here.

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1. MAPS a selective history of maps, lies, and storytelling class 1
2. The beginning
3. world population: 15-30 million
4. 5000 years ago Sumerian start chart
5. Babylonian map of the world
6. maps & math
7. world population: 300-400 Million
8. Eratosthenes Eratosthenes
12. maps & $$$
13. Western-Han-dynasty silk map
14. Missing movie: Tabula Peutingeriana
16. maps, innovation, Exploration
18. rhumb lines | no up!
23. distort predictably
24. Mercator
27. http://bit.ly/webmercator-vid
28. http://bit.ly/esri-projections
29. 300 more years of punctuated progress
30. The modern map
31. world population: 1.2 billion
33. 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
34. Miasma theory
35. John Snow
36. Still before germ theory
37. Used map to make argument and shut off pump
39. maps become ubiquitous
40. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln
41. Lincoln’s map
43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOcEquHyefI
44. http://bit.ly/fred-rose
47. Great Trigonometrical Survey
52. the 20th century
53. world population: 1.8 billion
54. 1926 Standardization of Road Numbering
55. 1946 First image from space
56. Sputnik and the Sputnik crisis
57. Apollo 17
59. world population: 3.6 billion
60. so much data!
61. Movie: Canada GIS
62. 1960’s
66. SYMAP
67. SYMAP
68. THEMATIC MAPs!!!!
69. whoa, gps
71. later
72. later credit Todd Humphreys
73. now
74. but before bill
76. 1985 TIGER Data
77. enter stage right
90. http://bit.ly/digi-geo-hist
92. GIS ESRI IS 80s-2000s
95. OS Arrives
96. 1992 GRASS
97. 2001 PostGIS
98. 2002 QGIS
99. the information age
100. ARPANET
106. routing!
108. 2004 SLippymap!
109. Movie of slippy map
110. Enter stage left
113. Ordinance Survey Not free
116. Isle of White - 2007
117. credit - steve coast 2008
120. at the same time
121. a side branch…
122. Another character enters!
124. NAVTEQ Tele Atlas And others
125. http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html
126. 2005 GMaps API Release
127. “Mashup”
128. 2007 routing
129. 2007 street view
130. by 2009, google owned all their own street data
131. Still license Satellite data
134. the lost years
135. FLASH
136. Let’s not forget
139. a business boom
146. Crazy Geo gone
147. seriously. crazy
148. Eric Fischer
149. Eric Fischer
150. peter desmet
155. a flourishing community
164. To get to a lot of the things we saw today http://bit.ly/class1-links
165. Let’s open up to discussion Before we turn to the future
166. HANDS-ON
167. SYMAP
168. email me your topic ah162@nyu.edu ASSIGNMENT 1
169. ONLINE MAPPING FOR BEGINNERS http://bit.ly/maps-beginners ASSIGNMENT 2 http://bit.ly/cartodb-student
170. your world ASSIGNMENT 3 Create a map that represents the world for the rest of your day. The tools you use to make it can be anything pencil to legos to javascript. Don’t forget to frame it in the context of your topic! Map + writeup
171. sYmap ASSIGNMENT 4 Create your first map in CartoDB (after the academy). Do it in the form of a SYNMAP. Put it in the context of your topic. Write-up the Lie your map tells and the Story it supports. http://bit.ly/symap-vid http://bit.ly/symap-data
172. Read Chapter 1, 2, 3 Elements of the Map in How to Lie with Maps ASSIGNMENT 5
173. Interesting things I read over the weekend http://bit.ly/supl-agps http://bit.ly/nearables-lost http://bit.ly/losing-coast
174. 2 weeks See you in The power of data and an introduction to lies