History Repeats Itself And So Does The Map

Gary Gale, Director, Places Nokia Location & Commerce gary.gale@nokia.com @vicchi ICA Commission On Neocartography London, UK 51.5222, -0.1291

History Repeats Itself And So Does The Map

Gary Gale, Director, Places Nokia Location & Commerce gary.gale@nokia.com @vicchi EAN’s World Of Data London, UK 51.53138, -0.1070

I’m Gary; a Geo-Technologist and a Geographer at heart Director, Places, Nokia Location & Commerce

http://www.vicchi.org - http://www.garygale.com - @vicchi

Ken Yeung / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyeung808/4820451850/

Karola Reigler / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/karola/3623768629/

Lots of Links

http://vtny.org/kk

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hundrednorth / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/100n30th/11440471/

A Personal First

#foodporn

#mapporn

Kristian Bjornard / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornmeansbear/4249524324/

Some History

Babylon 600 BC

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2675672726/

Hemispheriu[m] ab aequinoctiali linea, ad circulu[m] Poli Arctici

1593

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/5385389984/

Les Isles Britanniques ou sont le royaumes d'Angleterre

1730

Wikipedia / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png

Napoleon’s March To Moscow Charles Minard, 1869

Metro Route Maps

streetmap.co.uk

maps.nokia.com

maps.google.com

maps.bing.com

openstreetmap.org

maps.stamen.com

takomabibelot / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/4373062612/

How Did We Get Here?

From Here …

… To Here?

My Melting Brain / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/trinity-of-one/20562069/

Maps Mean Data, Data Means Maps

mypantsareonfire / http://mypantsareonfire.tumblr.com/post/30302438119/albert-speers-new-berlin

Albert Speer’s New Berlin

http://ottawa.openfile.ca/blog/ottawa/2012/suns-same-sex-marriage-map-puts-saudi-arabia-africa-among-other-cringeworthy-errors

boundaries.tomtaylor.co.uk

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/force-states.html

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/force-states.html

http://earth-base.org/fossils

plumegraph.org

plumegraph.org

Tornado Tracks Over 56 Years

http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/05/tornado-tracks.html

http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/08/hurricanes-since-1851.html

Hurricanes Since 1851

http://hint.fm/wind/

Realtime Wind Map

http://hint.fm/wind/

The Dymaxion Map

http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/buckys-big-ideas/dymaxion-world/dymaxion-map

http://www.bfi.org/about-bucky/buckys-big-ideas/dymaxion-world/dymaxion-map

http://www.westnet.com/~crywalt/unfold.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4bz9shk8UU

Garrett Mace / Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/macetech/4640792905/

prettymaps.stamen.com

Thank You For Listening

Gary Gale Director, Places Nokia Location & Commerce +49.1515.5150909 +1.408.242.2329 +44.7508.000336 gary.gale@nokia.com