Week 2

15 September (synchronous class in Zoom)

What is OpenStreetMaps (OSM)? How is it different from Google Maps?

O’Beirne, What Happened to Google maps? | Google Maps vs Apple and many other short cartographic design essays here.

In class exercise in breakout rooms: Choose a place in the world and look at it in Google Maps (or Apple Maps) and in OSM. What are the differences? Select a reporter to communicate your findings back to the class--make sure the reporter is ok with sharing their screen.

Live demos: What is a base map? What kind of data can you layer on a map?

Quick geocoding using the extension "Geocode by Awesome Table," introduction to UMap and uploading a dataset Black Lives Matter Cities (Trump et al)

Homework:

1. Watch: Introduction to UMap, or here, ici (en français), aqui y aqui (en español), qui (in italiano)

Print Guide

What are the CSV / geoJSON formats? UMap works with both.

Before you work with UMap, you should go get an account with OpenStreetMap. It is also possible to log in with a GitHub account or Twitter, but we will be using OSM later anyway.

Make your first map on your own. Choose one of the datasets below, figure out where the location data is in it, decide how to download it, what format it is in (csv or json format) and attempt to upload it to Umap. You do not have to do anything else except this basic operation.

Take a screenshot of the way you think it looks the best, and share link to it in Chat in the DISCUSSION room and tell us which dataset it is. (This is not a graded assignment).

• Awqaf Operated Mosques for Abu Dhabi (AD government) download here

• Early African-American Film (UCLA) link within

• Barber Shops in Downtown Abu Dhabi (Omole) download here

• Hotel Apartments for Abu Dhabi (AD government) download here

• the Christine de Pizan literary geographies -- a list of places mentioned in the work of one of Europe's first woman authors (Wrisley) link within

• Five Star Hotels in Abu Dhabi (Mokhtar) download here

• Self-Identifying Artists in the UAE (AlMansoori) download here

• Bangalore Neighborhoods (Menon) - via Kaggle, link within, requires password

• Chipotle Locations - USA (Braun) - via Kaggle, link within, requires password

• WPA Directory of Churches in New Orleans (Louisiana) 1941
  

If you have another dataset that you would like to use and it only has city names or street addresses without latitude and longitude pairs (latlongs), try it with the Geocode by Awesome Table extension. If you are unsure if your dataset will work, DM the instructor.

2. Think about who you would like to work with for the homework assignment this weekend. The work will be done in pairs. If you already know who you would like to work with you can sign up here.

3. Check out the example of community mapping from the Geospatial Revolution part 4 (10:40-15:15)

17 September (synchronous class in Zoom)

In class discussion of our datasets, maps and using UMap.

Looking at the Cheap Eats Map and its data.

What do we want to be able to express at the intersection of information and location? What would you like to be able to do more of?

Signing up for 24 September.

Homework:

Below are some examples of contemporary mapping. Choose a partner from the course and let me know that person here. Use the form below to sign up for the presentation. Explore them and decide which one you would like to work on a collective ungraded presentation. If you are having trouble finding a partner, use the course Chat (random room) to indicate which project one you would like to work on and find a partner.

Las Calles de las Chicas (in Spanish and English) | Legacies of Labor | Exchanges on Hamdan Street | Slave Revolt in Jamaica | Mapping Marronage | Mapping the Mahjar | Palestine Open Maps | Ngāi Tahu Atlas | Oslo World Maps the World | Prison Map | Diverse Levant | Colonial Frontier Massacre Map | Stories of the Susquehanna | Going to the Show | Queering the Map | Mapping Absence | Trail of Blood | Torn Apart/Separados | Mapping Paintings | Tenement Housing in Rio | Geography of the Post | MapLesotho | Mapping Emotions in Victorian London | Mapping Shakespeare’s Plays | Listening to the Iraqis in NYC | OpenGulf maps | Slave Maps | Books of Duchesses | LOTR Map | OpenLitterMap | Mapping the Lake District: A Literary GIS | Panorama: An Atlas of US History | Mapping the Mahjar | Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

Present the mapping project of your choice in an informal, short video (maximum 3-5 minutes) or an illustrated Jamboard.

Choice #1 (video): There are multiple ways of doing this. You can use Kaltura capture if you want with screen captures and post it in NYU Stream. Alternatively, you can use Quicktime (Mac) or OBS (Windows) and put the video in our shared class drive. A video of best practices for recording in Kaltura is here. You could use Google slides as your presentation or a Jamboard (see below). Be sure to preserve social distance in preparing the video. You can divide up the work and then put the two videos together using iMovie. You could also have a zoom together that you record and then share the link.

Choice #2 (Jamboard): A Jamboard is like a series of slides for making a collaborative mindmap/jamboard. Use a maximum of two frames, screenshots, text and drawings to explain how it works. A short tutorial about Jamboards can be watched here. A sample jamboard can be seen here. (Note: Jamboard was created to work with in-person special screens that we will not be using.) Note: Your jamboard could also be recorded with a movie recorder.

In your video or Jamboard, help us understand what you think the project aims to do, what you think it achieves (or perhaps stops short of achieving) and what kind of information it connects to location. Can you tell how many people participated? What is your favorite part of the project?

When you are finished with your presentation of the mapping project, please submit the link in the thread for Week#2 Quick Writing #2 in DHS Google Chat. One class next week will be devoted to an extended asynchronous chat about the presentations.

This 3-5 minute video takes the place of Week #2 quick writing #2. Please complete this by 2359, 21 September.

Blog 1 (due 0600, 24 September)

Based on the project you and your partner worked on, write an individual written blog posting of in which you explain where the data comes/seems to come from, how the map tells a story, what it achieves and what its shortcomings might be said to be. Highlight both the strengths and shortcomings as you see them. Be sure to include plenty of screenshots. You can link to your short video or jamboard presentation as well.

Create a page in your Site called Blogs. This post should be a sub-page labelled "Blog 1". Posts can be maximum 750 words and should include visual and use the affordances of the Sites.

If you would like to see the rubric that I use to assess blog writing, check it out here. Examples of past work can be found here.