STILL IN TRANSIT

• Mapping project centered on Atlanta’s electric car-lines built on a 1928 map.

MAPPING PROJECT

• Tracing the routes of electric cars on 50 maps of Atlanta in 1928.

• Each route comprises line segments without a break: over 700 such lines.

• Unearthing historical sources for data, anecdotes, photographs.

• Hyper-linking routes and attaching information to the maps.

HOLLABACK!The iPhone application

Attaching narrative to place

Scanned maps of Atlanta 1928

Mapping route lines

• In the Editor function, each rail line had to be connected through a series of points.

• Before a curve, intersection or deviation, the line is ended with a double-click.

• The line then shows up in blue.

•The street name is then added to the attribute table.

No. 19?

Historical route map of June 1924

Meta-data

i= Identify

•Once the routes have been mapped, data sources from the library yield information with which to populate the map.•The data currently includes ownership details, route changes, historical information, photographs as well as anecdotes.•For instance in the late 1800s, dummy engines running on these tracks led to spirited protest from ladies who complained about soot accumulation on the lace curtains of their parlors.

Routes contain hyperlinks

Challenge: Presenting dense data

Using mapping in pedagogy

• Feminist action: Immediacy of marking sites of harassment/violence; sense of ‘action’.

• Acquaintance with new place: Understanding, exploring historical records/changes.

• Combining data and visual to present layered account of space, place and information.

• Mapping genealogies, relationships, structures? This is an experiment!