Digital Mapping
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Week2Lecture2-StreetViewFlatEarthandIntrotoMaps1.pptxWhere have we been so far…
Our world imagined through location services
Our reliance on them
Satellites and Cell Phone Towers
Different Countries different satellite systems
Time, the Speed of Light, and Triangulation
Labs and Maps as filtered versions of reality
Representations of space
Stuff that reminded me of the class
Google Street View
Let’s take a look at the actual lab again
(And at Packback)
Google Street View
Design Considerations…
“Pegman's origin is fundamentally a design story: how do you connect, with an icon, the 2D top-down Google Maps experience with the sensation of ground-level, 360-degree Street View. It's meant to solve what's called the Subway Effect - that jarring disorientation you feel when you emerge from a station not knowing where you are or what direction you are facing.”
What does it look like???
Lasers for 3D models
Images stitched together for panoramic shot
‘Trekker’ – 50 pounds – 2 batteries – computer
Where you been and where you at?
Rationale for Lab
Problems that most of you will have once you graduate…
The Google Megalomaniacs
Acquire Knowledge About a Place and Destroy it?
Google the technological super humans that will end suffering or the tyrannical profiteers who will destroy our lives?
Algorithms on algorithms
What is an algorithm
Filters reality to create a desired outcome
Dating Apps
Google Privacy
Blurred faces and license plates
Imperfect solution to privacy issue
Data, records, categories, and genocide
How will the data we record/correct be used?
Love/Hate – Give/Take relationship with Google
Knowing where everything is and how to get there is really convenient (ride sharing for example wouldn’t exist without it)
It’s also scary as we may not agree or no how folks are compiling and using this data about us.
Location/where we are at is very intimate
It is also a latitude and longitude
The beginning of spatial analysis…
In Class Assignment
Put your name on top! Your section if you remember it!
How do you feel about Google’s motivations to record the world and filter it through algorithm
How does Google know how much traffic there is?
Bits and bits of data from location services
Accident reports
Traffic trends
Main Point of this Lecture
Our experience of the world How maps look/what we include on maps
Inhabiting Space and Technology = Spatial Practice
Maps Aren’t Just Locations (Spatial Practice)
Space as reproduced in every day life
habit, identity, and what your body knows
Vibes
Energy
Comfort
Something is Wrong
How are these spatial practices represented?
ON A MAP WITH A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION!
REPRESENTATIONS OF REAL PLACES/EXPERIENCES?
Many options!
Spatial Practices are Represented at Different Scales…
Size and Geographic Extent
Different processes are important at different scales
Sports Fans
Weather and Climate
Your everyday life
Concrete vs. Abstract
Concrete = what is directly in front of you. Think you can touch, smell, taste.
What’s on the surface – a desk, the ground, food you eat
Abstract thinking – conceptual thinking. Processing real things into a system of meaning.
A desk is for working (What is working? School)
Feeling grounded/rooted
Dinner, Lunch, Nutrition
Maps are the real world (Actual things and location) processed through a system of meaning
Flat Earth Map
Temple Campus
Another spatial representation of a world
Maps give us clues about the life and experiences of the people in it? What does the map tell us about the world of Game of Thrones?
