Category Archives: HGIS

Dynamic Distance Cartogram in D3

One of the features of ORBIS that I’ll be demonstrating next Wednesday is this dynamic distance cartogram, which is on Github as a gist and can be seen using bl.ocks here. It’s been written in D3 and uses a few … Continue reading

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Review: Tice and Steiner’s Vasi Map

Tice, James, Erik Steiner and Allan Ceen.  “Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome.” University of Oregon. http://vasi.uoregon.edu/   Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome was created in 2008 by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner and remains, … Continue reading

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Isophoretric Maps

Isochrone maps are well-known enough to have their own Wikipedia page and Google Maps API tutorial. These represent the time to get to or from locations as a gradient and/or contour. Their usefulness in representing historical movement is obvious, as … Continue reading

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Topography Error: Too Much Topography!

An attempt to illustrate something that may be better expressed through a less traditional visualization.

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Adventures in Georectification – Mobile Edition

While attempting to reconstruct the road from Mounesis to Coptos, I found the need to place a Barrington Atlas map into GIS.  Naturally, the solution was to take a photograph with it from my phone and email it to myself … Continue reading

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Negotiating the Transition from Topology to Topography in Geographic Networks

Networks are particularly well-suited for representing travel between points using routes that require establishment, investment and maintenance, like the roads found in traditional Roman land routes.  The structure breaks down, though, when it’s applied to travel that does not recognize … Continue reading

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Framing Digital Scholarly Communication at HASTAC V

Just a quick note that I’ll be attending the 2011 HASTAC International Conference on December 1st through the 3rd in Ann Arbor, where I’ll be demoing a Drupal-based, Geoserver+PostGIS-backed solution for collaborative production and presentation of digital humanities scholarship.  The … Continue reading

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The Killer Feature of QGIS

I’ve been working just a bit more with Quantum GIS, the open-source alternative to ESRI’s ArcGIS.  At Stanford, we have an unlimited (or practically unlimited, I can never remember) set of licenses for ArcGIS, along with most of the analyst … Continue reading

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Hacking Networks in the Humanities

Hacking, it seems, is in the air. Dan Cohen has announced the edited version of Hacking the Academy, here at Stanford we’ve finished up with our Humanities Hackerspace experiment, and another Bay Area THATCamp (where I’ll be officially giving a … Continue reading

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If You’re Going to San Francisco

As a follow-up to the previous post, here’s a gallery of various representations of San Francisco. This first set comes from Eric Fischer, who mapped accessibility in San Francisco by taxi, based on data from Cabspotting and inspired by an … Continue reading

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