It might make an appropriate poster to hang in the window of an about-to-close newspaper.
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Tuesday, December 27
The insightful, biting pen of a cartoonist
by
JTJ
on Tue 27 Dec 2005 01:37 PM MST
Should you not be lucky enough to read a daily that carries Wiley's "Non Sequitur" comic strip, we're taking the risk of passing this along. Note that you can buy a copy suitable for mounting at the UComics Store.
It might make an appropriate poster to hang in the window of an about-to-close newspaper.
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." |
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