From SUC to SoC
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Presentation at SoC cong, Glasgow 1 Sept 2014
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From SUC to SoC
- 1. Steve Chilton 1 September 2014 from SUC to SoC … and onwards From cartography to neocartography
- 2. Cartography from Greek χάρτης chartis map γράφειν graphein write
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- This presentation will tell three parallel stories - of the last 50 years of developments in cartography, how the SoC has reflected those, and my career. It will offer some thoughts on how cartography might develop in the future, and how the Society will need to adapt to those changes.
- Atlases obviously allowed for commentary in text form. Although early atlases were just collections of maps. The earliest atlases were not called by that name at the time of their publication, as term was introduced in 1595 by Mercator. Some argue that Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was the first in concept in 1570. Jump to 1970s
- Always wanted to be a surveyor. Image – three surveyors and another guy – Mt Rushmore (Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, but not Roosevelt)
- Credit – Roger Anson, Mike Childs, Harold Fullard Mike C – dog’s doodah Choice: oil industry versus academia How to tell a cartographer: glasses and black lines on their fingers
- Tools of choice
- Compilation – remember those?
- Output - maps for books and papers. Mono
- If you were lucky
- Gradual move to computers – SYMAP (developed in mid 60s at Harvard) was first I used
- Availability of graphic software – Adobe Illustrator 1987, Aldus Freehand 1988, CorelDRAW 1989 Move to graphic software for mapping – CorelDRAW in my case Around here I went for editorial/compilation job at Michelin – didn’t get it for some reason
- Influence of GIS - Jack and Laura Dangermond founded ESRI in 1969 as a privately held consulting group. The business began with $1100 from their personal savings and operated out of their home in Redlands, California.
- Close of Oxford Polytechnic carto course. Close of traditional map publishers Move to graphic design work. Move to VLE support (job with no cartography) Keeping map interest by Journal of Maps reviewing, where this geomorph map of mine was published
- Move to contributing to OpenStreetMap. New skills – xml, postgis, mapnik, style sheets, let’s put everything on the map
- Neocartography. Stories within maps – Christian Nold’s emotion maps
- Full circle. Working on an OS 6” 1st edition research project – eventually will be a blockbuster book
- Article from Financial Times Weekend magazine June 1 2014 See Stephen Hall’s book – Mapping the next millennium
- Telenav has a lot of GPS traces. We process all of those into navigable information. If you take all the people traveling on the freeway and they all go 55, you know that’s probably the speed limit. If nobody is turning left at an intersection, there is probably a turn restriction there.
- Google projects – via Ed Parsons’ talk.
- What about drones? BARSC says huge increase in start-ups. Buildings/developments in urban areas and in micro agricultural monitoring
- Unplaced populations or floating populations. Pumice rafts, Floating Maldives,Sealand.
- Not a single map or article by me! SoC – roll with it. Embrace the changes. Talk to new cartographers (neo session). Influence the software developers. Define and defend the subject.