Interestingly, Mapquest “estimates that driving directions cost [the] company a penny apiece and a static map much less -- expenses recouped through sales of ads displayed at the site.” The article goes on to discuss the online map sites’ different approaches to the problem of determining the right driving directions."
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Thursday, December 29
Trends in online mapping
by
JTJ
on Thu 29 Dec 2005 10:20 PM MST
Another good pointer from the Canadian Cartographic Assoc.
Interestingly, Mapquest “estimates that driving directions cost [the] company a penny apiece and a static map much less -- expenses recouped through sales of ads displayed at the site.” The article goes on to discuss the online map sites’ different approaches to the problem of determining the right driving directions." Tuesday, December 27
Tip-of-the-hat to the Rocky Mountain News
by
JTJ
on Tue 27 Dec 2005 10:15 AM MST
The Rocky
took a bold swing at developing an interesting web server application
this month. And the editor sees that this attempt is extensible.
-- From Adena Schutzberg, executive editor, Directions Magazine http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/957-guid.html"Rocky Mountain News Editor: Web Mapping Isn't that Easy"The Rocky Mountain News gets a lot of coverage due to its strong online presence. Some 42 "hubs" cover local news and encourage citizen journalism. So, it was quite interesting to read editor, publisher and president John Temple's discussion of attempting an interactive map of Christmas lights in his editorial from December 24 higlighting the paper's accomplishments.I hope you feel it in this newspaper and on our Web site every day. A passion. A passion for trying new things to serve you better. A passion for telling stories."Of course ESRI is based in Redlands, California. I'm sure that the local office worked their butts off in developing the app. Still, he's right - the hodgepodge of voting for lights displays (which linked to PDF maps???), routing by RouteMap IMS, and a grid to find local displays were quite challenging to navigate."
I think, therefore I can be mapped
by
JTJ
on Tue 27 Dec 2005 09:36 AM MST
One
of the interesting and most challenging aspects of cartography is that
of mapping ideas and their ebb and flow in populations. Think of
trying to dynamically map memes and at what scale. How, for
example, does the concepts of neo-conservatism or approval of national
health care move through a society and what does that movement look
like on a map?
Recently, following race riots down under, the Sydney Morning Herald took a crack at trying to map "tolerance." While the results are not perfect, it's a good go at a difficult problem. Here's how the CCA blog reported it. "Mapping Tolerance in Sydney Published Sunday, December 25, 2005 by CCAer  The Sydney Morning Herald has a story on a map
produced after the Cronulla race riots earlier this month. The map is
based on a survey of 1,800 respondents and was conducted by Associate
Professor Jim Forrest, of Macquarie University, Kevin Dunn, of the University of NSW and others.From the article: “Less tolerant areas include outer locations such as Gosford and Campbelltown, but also culturally mixed areas such as Bankstown and Ryde. Bankstown has a substantial Muslim population, while Ryde has many Chinese and Koreans. Culturally diverse areas such as Parramatta, Marrickville and Penrith, and the suburbs Hurstville, Randwick and Botany, are tolerant.” The map itself is fairly generalized and could use a better colour scheme. Based on 1,800 respondents across the area, that means that less than 100 residents would determine how a neighbourhood is classed. Still, in light of recent events in Australia, an interesting map." Wednesday, December 21
And for lovers of maps and historians of cartography
by
JTJ
on Wed 21 Dec 2005 01:09 PM MST
Bird's eye view maps have long been an interesting perspective for mapmakers and users of maps. (They have also been a splendid tool for hyping real estate and city development on America's spread to the west, but that's a story for another day.) Comes today this interesting resource at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/birds-eye-views.html
Bird's Eye Views Tom
Patterson of the U. S. National Park Service has published a 32 page
paper on the creation of bird's eye views. The paper, published in
NACIS’ fall issue of Cartographic Perspectives, is available on his Shaded Relief website and is in pdf format. Also available are numerous examples.
From the abstract: “A brief historical review looks at the antecedents
of current NPS products dating back to the Renaissance. The practical
second half of the paper focuses on how the NPS now designs these
bird’s-eye views with 3D software, with an eye toward cost savings.
Topics include viewing parameters in a 3D scene, preparing DEMs,
modeling buildings, designing trees, and creating environmental special
effects.” Patterson points out in his paper that “If the output from 3D
software has a visual fault it is the tendency for it to look
hyper-realistic—too smooth, shiny, and simulated.” The paper contains
numerous tips for the creation of a realistic bird’s eye illustration."Thanks again to the http://ccablog.blogspot.com/
Still thinking about Christmas gifts? How 'bout a wonderful map projection?
by
JTJ
on Wed 21 Dec 2005 12:50 PM MST
From "Cartography," the Canadian Cartography Association's most
excellent blog at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/ "The self-declared goal of the Map Projections web page 'is to present on-line, as complete a collection as possible, historical published map projections.' Currently there are over 300 such examples, all as black line drawings in pdf format, classed into 7 categories. The map projections were produced using personally developed computer programs, some of which is available for download or by way of email request (see About - in pdf format)." For the Map Projection page, see http://www.ilstu.edu/microcam Wednesday, December 14
A GoogleMaps-FundRace MashUp
by
JTJ
on Wed 14 Dec 2005 11:40 AM MST
Gerry Lanosga, an investigative producer at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, was kind enough to send along this link -- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~markane/i590/contributors.html to a nifty first shot at merging GoogleMaps with The Fundrace Project., that site that shows you who in any ZIP Code made contributions to which politicians. Matthew Kane, a CS student at the Univ. of Indiana, put this together, and it's a fine beginning. Be alert, however, that the Fundrace data is not always correct. For example, we know a guy named John T. Johnson, who lives in ZIP 87505, fairly well. The Fundrace Project says he is an airline pilot who works for UPS. We know for sure that is not the case.
The drill-down on Kane's Following the Dollars doesn't give the degree of detail that the Fundrace Project does itself, but keep on truckin', Mr. Kane. We need all of these utilities we can get. Tuesday, December 6
Resources related to Crime Mapping
by
Tom Johnson
on Tue 06 Dec 2005 08:04 PM MST
We
don't know if there has as yet been any empirical research done on how
interested media consumers are in online crime mapping -- and how good the coverage is -- but there is a body of
literature debating readers' interest in crime per se. It would
seem to be a pretty good bet, though, that if people are interested in
crime AND if more and more are going online via broadband, that
some dynamic crime maps would get some hits.
Remember that crime mapping is not just about pushing digital push-pins on a map, GoogleMap or otherwise. "Journey to Crime" maps or maps showing where a car was stolen and when it was recovered can provide interesting insights. Here are some links recently posted to the CrimeMapping listserv that could be of value to journalists: Journey-after-crime: How Far and to Which Direction DO They Go? http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Linking Offender Residence Probability Surfaces to a Specific Incident Location http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Journey to Crime Estimation http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Applications for Examining the Journey-to-Crime Using Incident-Based Offender Residence Probability Surfaces http://pqx.sagepub.com/cgi The Geography of Transit Crime: http://www.uctc.net/papers/550 See, too: Paulsen, Derek J. "WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF HOMICIDE IN SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTING DANGEROUS PLACES." Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 9(3) (2002) 113-127 |
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