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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