You are (w)here? Geospatial web dev off the beaten map
Focusing on a mix of artificial, scientific, and environmental sensing data, Aurelia Moser explores fantasy and farcical mapping, teasing out the tough parts of geocoding on real and mythical spatial matrices while delving into the contrived topographies of null island, paper towns, "dumb" cities, and the infinitely curious world of geospeculative design in JavaScript.
| Talk Title | You are (w)here? Geospatial web dev off the beaten map |
| Speakers | Aurelia Moser (Mozilla Science) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Fluent Conference |
| Conf Tag | The Web Platform in Practice |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | June 12-14, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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The meaning of “map” across disciplines is remarkably varied and includes a spatial representation of geotopography, a linking between tables by foreign key, and a datatype in C++, to name just a few. Today, coders make creative use of custom basemaps and clever scripting methods, building remarkable maps of multivariate information off the beaten geographic projection. Many have designed and published interactive maps of cemetery burial plots, galactic drawings of the Star Wars universe, sequence maps of human genes, heatmaps of court traffic during the NBA finals, and fantasy landscapes from deeply fake stats. Focusing on a mix of artificial, scientific, and environmental sensing data, Aurelia Moser explores fantasy and farcical mapping, teasing out the tough parts of geocoding on real and mythical spatial matrices while delving into the contrived topographies of null island, paper towns, “dumb” cities, and the infinitely curious world of geospeculative design in JavaScript.
