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TELLING STORIES WITH MAPS RICHARD FUCHS, JOHN STUIVER, ALDO BERGSMA, MARTIN HEROLD, ARNOLD BREGT, LUKASZ GRUS SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE COURSE, 15TH JANUARY 2016
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CONTENT
• Why maps? Why telling stories? • Your toolbox - examples of story maps • Your own story map • Promoting your work • Getting feedback of your work • Conclusion
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WHY USING MAPS?
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WHY USING MAPS?
• Something is happening. We are becoming a visually mediated society. For many, understanding of the world is being accomplished, not through reading words, but by reading images.
- Paul Martin Lester, “Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication”
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WHY PROMOTING YOUR WORK?
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WHY PROMOTING YOUR WORK?
• Get yourself and your story known – Stimulate discussions, networking, collaborations, generate users, promote
your story
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WHY PROMOTING YOUR WORK?
• (ideally) Our research outcome is the societal benefit – Example: First signs of
carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass
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YOUR TOOLBOX - EXAMPLES OF STORY MAPS
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SUCCESSFUL WEB MAP EXAMPLES AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
• Global Forest Map by Hansen et al. • Feeding the World by Foley et al. • World Carbon Atlas by Houghton et al. (land use
change)
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SUCCESSFUL WEB MAP EXAMPLES
• In Business – Carbon map – which countries are responsible for climate change? By The
Guardian – Refugees: Europe’s deadly borders by SPIEGEL.DE – Buy Fresh, Buy Local by Barnstable Country, Cape Cod
• In NGO’s – The Struggle to Save Elephants from a Devastating Wave of Ivory Poaching
by Wildlife Conservation Society – Feeding the world – the role of forests trees and agroforestry by Niki deSy,
Sidney Gijzen & CIFOR • In American universities (used in parallel with publications)
– Global Forest Map by Hansen et al. – Feeding the World by Foley et al. – World Carbon Atlas by Houghton et al. (land use change)
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YOUR OWN STORY MAP
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ESRI STORY MAPS
• https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/ (website) • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/ (template gallery) • http://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=d14f53dcaf7b4542a8c9
110eeabccf1c (example)
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LOOPS OF REDIRECTORS
Publication/paper
News Items Conferences/workshops Data Download
Website department
Web map
• Web maps are the central element in such a loop • No matter where the user would enter this loop, he gets the information he needs/wants without obstacles • It’s a self-sustaining system – once established it runs automated • Every item has a URL
Social Media
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OWN TRY OUT
Changing Face: Europe’s land
cover in 1900 and 2010
www.wageningenur.nl/hilda
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/explore-interactive-
maps/changing-face-of-europe-2014
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK - NEWSPAPER
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK - NEWSPAPER
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK EXAMPLE CONFERENCES BERLIN 17TH-21ST MARCH 2014
• QR-Code & URL
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PROMOTING YOUR WORK - MAP CONTESTS
ESRI GIS tech 2014 – HILDA web map as finalist in map contest – 1000 people audience
This years contest start in April
CLASSIC WAYS OF COMMUNICATION IN RESEARCH
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CLASSIC WAYS OF COMMUNICATION IN RESEARCH
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SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS • Research Gate • LinkedIn • Facebook • Twitter • etc.
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GETTING FEEDBACK OF YOUR WORK
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ARC GIS ONLINE STATS
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ARC GIS ONLINE STATS
GOOGLE ANALYTICS CHARTS
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS CHARTS
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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SUMMARY – WHY STORY MAPS?
• Business card • Pipeline users to content you want them to
find • Make sure users find what they are looking for • Get to know your users • Tell your story
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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POTENTIAL DISCUSSION POINTS
• Community/Acceptance (are story maps a fleeting star?)
• Low-Budget/Open Source alternatives • Infrastructure/Set-up/License (Pros & Cons) • Where to start with the promotion (best ways, sort of)? • Stick factors • Flexibility of the system (e.g. devises, links, adaptive,
control) • Story Maps as a toolbox (other uses as presented?)
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ARC GIS ELEMENTS
PC Web Cloud Dept.
Services (e.g. Maps,
Layout, Raster, Shapes)
ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Online
URL
Story Map / Web App ArcGIS Desktop
Cloud/Website
PC 2 ArcGIS
Desktop