week 3 Flashcards

(19 cards)

1
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spatial humanities

A

process of including space and place in humanities

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2
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spatial humanities example

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historical maps
social geography
maping fictional places
mapping in journalism

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3
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data maps

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Show basic facts like population, weather, or traffic.

Usually made with numbers and are simplified.

Good for giving a big-picture view.

Often miss the details of real life in a place.

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4
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deep maps

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Show rich, detailed stories about a place.

Include people, buildings, animals, plants, history, and feelings.

Use photos, videos, sounds, and stories — not just numbers.

Focus on qualitative (descriptive) info, not just quantitative (numbers).

Bring narrative (storytelling) back into mapping.

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5
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why deep maps matter

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They give a richer, more human view of the world.

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6
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Do maps tell the truth?

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maps are political and may not accurately reflect real life data

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7
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what type of maps are data maps

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population maps

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8
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digital maps

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specific set of techniques - different to creating maps by hand

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9
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digital maps common formats

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raster maps
vector maps

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10
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raster maps

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grid of pixels

in a data map, each pixel represents something about that point such as roads, weather

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vector maps

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geographic features represented as series of numerical values

usually points, lines, and polygons

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12
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mapping aesthetics to values

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how visual elements (like position, size, color, and shape) are used to show information on a map.

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12
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mapping aesthetics to values

MAPS vs data maps

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maps: position is usually based on
geographic position (i.e. physical location on earth)

data maps: use position, size, color and shape to
draw points on a map, or will use position and colour to
fill in polygons

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12
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Polygons

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Use position to place the area.

Use color to fill it in and show data values (e.g. income, pollution).

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13
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how do we create our own maps

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  1. a basemap: backgroundmap on which to draw data
  2. geographic elements: points, lines or polygons
  3. data (quan to be mapped to geographic data
  4. GIS (geographic info system) software which can interpet and map sets of geographic elements
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14
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basemap

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needed to anchor geographic data in recognisable space

often provided by third part (google)

15
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geographic data

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points: longitutide coordinates

lines: multiple connected sets of points

polygons: joined and closed lines

16
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points coordinates

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decial (51, 100)

17
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palladio

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geographic info ine on column in the format (latitufe, longitude) 51, 10

works on relational tables (tables with connected data)

Keeps geographic info separate from ther data.

This way is more efficient and makes it easier to update the map or data later.