The Power of Interactive Maps.
Peter A. Weenink
This presentation…..
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The old map
The new map
The InterActive Maps ( IAM) on the Internet (online, wifi)
In October 2014, I visited the InterGeo event in Berlin. While walking through the
exhibitionhalls, I suddenly had a frightening split second about all the available
software, uav’s, measuring-instruments, camera’s and GIS-systems, and I directly
asked myself; Where is my privacy, who is using my own not released “free” generated
data and where will this end ? 
Peter Weenink
My BIG passion for maps;
• I travelled around the world from my childhood till now,
• My love for maps and their backgrounds made me a Cartographer and a
data-miner,
• Informative character of map and atlases,
• Collection of physical maps/atlases and an enormous digital DATA-base,
• Hoping for the biggest world atlas, Earth Platinum (EP), into de “Low
Countries”.
• Teaching the knowledge of the map to individuals & groups through
Mapvision
Maps, from History till Today.
Topographical ===> thematical (subjects) nowadays using DATA visualization.
1. Static
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paper (platform), drawn/printed format
2. Dynamic
----> <---- screen (platform), software format; zooming (less detailing)
3. InterActive (IA) <---> <---> screen (platform), software format; zooming, Q & A,
Definitions are “widely usable”; gradations and ranges are within a "sliding scale”.
Static Map, Dynamic Map, InterActive Map ===> StatM, DM, IAM (Semi IAM).
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Old (topo)situation
The then current situation
Old situation
The current situation
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The current situation
Real-time situation
2D Map
3D Map
4D Map
on an old (ancient, antiquarian) clay or paper map,
on an old (antiquarian) paper map,
on a nowadays paper/digital/app map,
on a nowadays paper/cloth map,
digital maps using infographics, texts/storytelling, stats, (sat)pics,
on a nowadays digital/app map, (incl. time-delays),
digital maps using navigation & distances,
digital depth-maps (on earth surface),
using time (sliders), sounds/noise, movement or else.
InterActive Maps need…..
DATA, lots and lots of Data, BIG Data!
• Free data: static + mobile + realtime
• Your data: private
• Bought data: government/institutions/organizations
• Local, regional, international data
By all means !!!
The Map.
Many of us do have a “Hate – Love” relationship to the map;
Difficult visualizations bring incomprehensible information.
Sender (Cartographer/GIS-technician) <==> Receiver (user)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/interactive/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-deaths-map
Satellite Map ( esri )
Fra Mauro
Worldmap from 1435
(static)
http://maps.esri.com/rc/sat/index.html
Our World, mapping the static map and keeping the map simply
colorful, or making sophisticated InterActive Maps.
The Internetmap (Connections/Communication).
Dynamic: only zooming.
http://internet-map.net http://the-internet-map.blogspot.nl/2012/09/map-layout-process-video.html
Early interactive map ?
Distoguide ® from Hallwag (CH) E-Distoguide® by QR-Code.
From Geneva to Poschiavo is 553 km.
Who Provides the modern InterActive Map
(IAM) ?
Google, esri or else? Individuals & Tech start-ups !
What brings the InterActive Map?
Safe Society, Your Safety; Quality of Life!
At home, on the street, your geographic area influences
you day by day, so knowledge is “ lifesaving ”!
• Education, shopping, food,
• Crime, vandalism, services
• Personal health, childcare, demography,
• Flooding, drought, weather,
• Environment, pollution,
• Leisure, free time, sports, transport,
• communication, politics,
• Your PC use and data storage.
Do we need highly technical, detailed
or simple ?
Shop till you drop! The NY shopping map. The website has
gone (ERROR 404), but the App is there!
Search by www.archive.org
Techniques & calculations behind the IAM map.
http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/airports/
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/raw/3711652/
http://www.mapvision.eu/node/map-projections/
Voronoi
Projections
Baby names; this interactive map shows the top 100 of names
per US state per year. The Java technology might be obsolete,
a new version seems to be on its way.
If we work internationally, we should
speak many languages!
Where do they speak Popoloca or
popoluca ?
http://www.verbix.com/maps/where-do-they-speak/ (6545 languages, Dynamic)
Flooding or drought?
http://globalfloodmap.org
http://www.floodmap.net
Weather mapping.
https://www.windyty.com/?surface,rh,now,52.367,4.900,4
Ireland February 2014
http://www.meteoearth.com/#/,19.74,59.10,2.12,6,1,1,0,1,0,time=1431940860
Je Suis Charlie, twittermap.
http://srogers.cartodb.com/viz/123be814-96bb-11e4-aec1-0e9d821ea90d/embed_map
Bundestagswahl 2013 in Berlin.
All votes from all 1709 polling stations.
http://berlinwahlkarte2013.morgenpost.de/#partei=13
Transport
Different (realtime) IAM models for a big global audience !
http://planefinder.net
Semi IAM New York Transport
www.marinetraffic.com
Kaspersky & DDoS attack map.
https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=PH&list=0&time=16235&view=map
Music maps. (Audio & time)
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/the-music-of-geography-ohio-is-a-piano/ http://austinmusicmap.com
Ohio Pianomap,
Austin Musicmap
And, New York by night…..
http://uk.businessinsider.com/aerial-photographs-of-new-york-city-2015-1?r=US
At the end……
Interactive Maps (IAM) are:
• Informative, providing more and more global subjects,
• Useful to create to get a better, safer & healthier society,
• Necessary in a fast growing (digital & physical) world,
• Educational for scolars, students and professionals,
• Easy accessible (mostly) and attractive for the eye.
• Sometimes a “once in a lifetime map”.
But
• Allways check your information for Source, Provider and the “Truth”
before official use,
• Allways use a second “opinion”, the more sources/data, the better !
Thanks for listening!
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