Story Maps &amp; Co. The state of the art of online narrative cartography

Caquard, Sébastien; Dimitrovas, Stefanie

doi:10.4000/mappemonde.3386

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“…Another key issue is accessibility. While ESRI argues that this portal is open source (since it allows downloading of the source code, that is human-readable alphanumeric characters that compose a website text, and hosting on other servers (North 2019)), in fact ESRI acts like a major global corporation, providing cartographic products and offering proprietary software (Caquard & Dimitrovas 2017). Unlike other open geospatial software initiatives, such as Time Mapper or The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (see Coetzee et al 2020 for an exhaustive review), the ArcGIS StoryMaps tool does not meet all ten criteria of the Open Source Definition (OSD) by The Open Source Initiative.…”

Section: Ontologies and Decolonial Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

Saxinger

Reinoso

Wentzel

2022

Fennia

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In this paper, we explore the methodical, methodological, epistemological and outreach potential – and related challenges – of cartographic storytelling in ethnographic research, based on the online portal Life of BAM. Our extensive literature review highlights the need for deep self-reflection in the cartographic production of manifold realities and the way in which visualised stories can be co-produced by local people and researchers. It also describes cartography’s conceptual turns and its role in anthropology and ethnography. As an outreach tool, the Life of BAM portal conveys knowledge about social and infrastructural configurations in the greater area of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and Amur-Yakutsk Mainline (AYaM) railroads in Eastern Siberia, through a series of lay-language and visualised ‘episodes’ built into the ArcGIS StoryMaps online tool. Interlinking qualitative and quantitative data in the cartographic visualisation of manifold realities can trigger better comprehension of complex matters, through multimodal forms of representing stories in space. Cartographic storytelling, as a means of knowledge and science communication, supports – in our case – civil society, education, heritage work and policy making, and is a way of making local concerns more tangible for state officials and corporate actors. By engaging with cartographic storytelling and building the Life of BAM portal, we affirm that a reflective attitude towards the multiplicity of stories’ ontologies in narration, collection, comprehension and representation is of key importance if we want to do justice to a decolonial approach towards Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and research partners in the field.

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Section: Ontologies and Decolonial Mappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

Saxinger

Reinoso

Wentzel

2022

Fennia

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“…The platform also allows users to import geotagged photos, create slidebased maps, and produce simple multimedia geographic tours. In this way, uMap can provide some of the basic feature characteristics of story-based map-making tools like Esri Story Maps, (formerly) Google Tour Builder, and Story Map JS (see Caquard and Dimitrovas 2017). Users can also modify data within, and export data from, uMap, making the platform interoperable and particularly easy to integrate into other workflows.…”

Section: W H At I S U M a P ?mentioning

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uMap: A Free Open-Source Alternative to Google My Maps

Shahamati¹,

Denieul-Pinsky²,

Baumann³

et al. 2022

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Since their release in 2005, Google Maps-based tools have become the de facto solutions for a variety of online cartographic projects. Their success has been accompanied by a range of critiques denouncing the individualistic market-based logic imposed by these mapping services. Alternative options to this dominant model have been released since then; uMap is one of them. uMap is a free, open-source online mapping platform that builds on OpenStreetMap to enable anyone to easily publish web maps individually or collaboratively. In this paper, we propose to reflect on the potential and limits of uMap based on our own experiences of deploying it in six different mapping projects. Through these experiences, uMap appears particularly well-suited for collaborative mapping projects, due to its ease in connecting to remote data and its high level of interoperability with a range of other applications. On the other hand, uMap seems less relevant for crowdmapping projects, due to its lack of built-in options to manage and control public contributions. Finally, the open-source philosophy of uMap, combined with its simplicity of use and its strong collaborative capacity, make it a great option for activist mapping projects as well as for pedagogical purposes to teach a range of topics including online collaborative cartography.

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“…However, in the last decade an approach that crosses humanities in its broad sense (including film studies) with geography has emerged under the label of "geographic turn" or "spatial turn" in humanities (Fraser, 2014). Turismo, 50, (2022), 183-202 Within this quest for "spatialization", using cartographic tools and geo-referencing filming locations of a broad set of titles is a key strategy for undertaking systematic analysis of the urban uses and imaginaries in cinema, and at the same time, display the results (Verhoeven, 2009;Caquard and Fiset, 2014;Caquard and Dimitrovas, 2017;Lukinbeal, 2018;and Aertsen et al, 2019). Along these lines, Hallam and Roberts (2014, p. 25) advocate the use of GIS tools, pointing out the need to carry out "a critical mapping of the multifarious spatiality of film on the one hand, and the expressly visual cultures of geography and cartography on the other".…”

Section: Cinema and Cartography: Spatial Turnmentioning

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Madrid in Non-Spanish Speaking Cinema (1955-2020): Film Locations and the Tourist Gaze

Aertsen

Orueta²,

Valdés³

2022

Cuad Turism

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The article investigates the image of the city of Madrid and its relationship with the tourist gaze in non-Spanish-speaking films shot between 1955 and 2020. For the research, 606 clips from a selection of 40 feature films have been geolocated and analyzed. The study shows the distribution of filming locations in different areas of the city, with relevant contrasts between the historic center of Madrid and other areas such as the Ensanche and the peripheral areas. Finally, it reflects on the relationship between the most frequent locations and the commonly recognized tourist landmarks in Madrid. El artículo investiga la imagen de la ciudad de Madrid y su relación con la mirada turística en películas de habla no española rodadas entre 1955 y 2020. Para ello se han geolocalizado y analizado 606 clips de una selección de 40 largometrajes. El estudio evidencia la distribución de localizaciones de rodaje en las diferentes áreas de la ciudad, con contrastes relevantes entre el centro histórico de Madrid y otros ámbitos como el Ensanche y las periferias. Finalmente, se reflexiona sobre la relación existente entre las localizaciones más frecuentes y los enclaves turísticos comúnmente reconocidos en Madrid.

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Story Maps & Co. The state of the art of online narrative cartography

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

uMap: A Free Open-Source Alternative to Google My Maps

Madrid in Non-Spanish Speaking Cinema (1955-2020): Film Locations and the Tourist Gaze

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