Week 3: Mapping Flashcards
Spatial Humanities
the process of including space and place inhumanities
examples of spatial humanities
historical maps
social geography
mapping fictional places
mapping in journalism
deep maps
finely detailed
Multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, projects, flora, and fauna that exist within it
Why are deep maps used?
Regular data maps cannot always capture the variety and richness of a place.
qualitative rather than quantitative
do maps tell the truth
Maps are political and may not accurately reflect real-life data
what type of maps are data maps most often?
population maps
digital maps
the specific set of techniques - different to creating maps by hand
types of digital maps
raster maps
vectors maps
raster maps
grid of pixels
In a data map, each pixel represents something about that point, such as terrain, roads, weather, elevation…
vector maps
geographic features are represented as a series of numerical values
usually lines and polygons
mapping aesthetics to values
Difference: in maps, the position is usually based on geographic position (ie, physical location on Earth)
Data maps will use position, size, color, and shape to draw points on a map or will use position and color to fill in polygons
geographic data
points, lines, polygons
points
set of latitude, longitude coordinates
lines
multiple connected sets of points
polygons
joined and closed lines
