The Social Lives Of Maps: Interaction Design and Maps
- 1. The Social Lives of Maps: Interaction Design + Maps Ray Cha Thomas Turnbull
- 3. Maps: approximate time + space Image credit: Strange Maps
- 4. Maps: narrate stories Image credit: Fathom
- 5. Maps: some philosophy "Through a cartographer's choices of selection, omission, or simplification, a map can be manipulated to illustrate entirely different human circumstances in the same physical geography." - John Brian Harley, map historian, 1989
- 6. Maps: whose stories? How do you represent a church? Claims to South China Seas (source: Voice of America)
- 7. Map Interaction Design Patterns: It's not that different (from UX in general.) Reduce Prioritize Organize * Cooper Design
- 8. Design Pattern: Adaptive Design Image credit: Trulia
- 10. Design Pattern: List, Gallery, Map
- 11. Design Pattern: List, Gallery, Map
- 16. Design Pattern: Zoom dependency Control layers through zoom dependency e.g. Chicago Tribune e.g. TreeKit
- 17. Design Pattern: Zoom dependency Control layers through zoom dependency e.g. Chicago Tribune e.g. TreeKit
- 18. Design Pattern: Zoom dependency Control layers through zoom dependency e.g. Chicago Tribune e.g. TreeKit
- 19. Design Pattern: Zoom dependency Control layers through zoom dependency e.g. Chicago Tribune e.g. TreeKit
- 23. Design Pattern: Browser vs. App
- 25. Customization: Tiles Customization : tiles e.g. Stamen water color
- 28. Advanced Interfaces: Bike Trip Planning
- 31. Making Maps: Mapping large datasets
- 32. Making Maps: Hacking Map APIs Image credit: microtyp.org
- 33. Making Maps: Comparing Services Service Cost Effort Google Free (avg. < 25k/day) Easiest Bing Free, for now Open Street Maps Free, as in puppy ArcGIS Expensive Hardest
- 34. Making Maps: Privacy and Security Let users know what is being collected Use caution if you collect Personally Identifiable Information Location + other information (time stamp, satellite imagery, social media user name) can be combined to identify individuals
- 35. Things to look out for: iOS 6 Maps Image credit: 9to5Mac
- 36. Things to look out for: Vector-based maps replacing raster-based maps (already on Android)
- 37. Things to look out for: http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/
- 38. Things to look out for: Open Data
- 39. Take aways: Maps present UX challenges Standard UX best practices still apply to designing interactive maps. Maps are an opportunity to differentiate. Custom maps may be easier than you think.
- 40. Learning more: The Story of Maps, Lloyd A. Brown How to Lie With Maps, Mark Monmonier On Exactitude in Science, Jorge Luis Borges Strange Maps Mapping with Drupal, Alan Palazzolo, Thomas Turnbull Apress Google Maps Books
- 41. Resources and Tools: TileMill Open Street Map Mapknitter Bing Maps API CloudMade StyleEditor ESRI / ArcGIS Google Maps API Open Geo Google Fusion Tables