Category Archives: Spatial Humanities

Negotiating the Transition from Topology to Topography in Geographic Networks

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Comparing Population Density and Wikipedia Density on GIS Day

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

One of the responses I’ve heard to the Wikipedia Map in the last post is that it tracks to population density, so I grabbed a population density map from SEDAC and created a few comparative maps at similar scales to … Continue reading →

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Mapping Wikipedia: Geolocated Articles as a Proxy of Culture and Attention

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

You can see further maps examining the relationship between population density and Wikipedia article density here. Such is the nature of the modern university that a sudden spark of inspiration can lead to a quick and radical dive into data … Continue reading →

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Visualization of Network Distance

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve just finished my first Gephi plugin, which distorts a geographically laid out network to emphasize network distance. The NBM can be found here and the source code is on GitHub. The layout takes the XY coordinates of the node … Continue reading →

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Framing Digital Scholarly Communication at HASTAC V

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Tiered Spatial Services for the Humanities

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I have been engrossed in Drupal 7, lately, and it’s a good thing. Stanford has just officially announced the creation of Stanford Web Services, which along with developing and providing robust and sophisticated web services for the campus, will also … Continue reading →

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The inarguable legitimacy-providing splendour of goats

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Tomorrow I’ll be demoing my Stanford Spatial Drupal distribution for some Stanford folks and David Rumsey. The demo includes an unrectified map of Germany around the Rhine from the 16th century that, shockingly, does not come from Rumsey’s amazing collection. … Continue reading →

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If You’re Going to San Francisco

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Beautiful Maps

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Last night, Trulia hosted a small event in San Francisco showcasing beautiful cartography. It included presentations by a host of smart people, including Mike Migurski, whose Modest Maps API has been very good to me, and Julie Sweetkind-Singer, who directs … Continue reading →