WEBVTT 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.240 Hello. 00:00:12.589 --> 00:00:16.046 Thank you very much for, I would say, for inviting me to talk at this 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.977 conference. But actually I emailed Mountain. So can I come and talk at 00:00:19.010 --> 00:00:25.107 this conference? Um and he said yes. So thank you, Matt 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:29.317 on dit sze Wonderful to just just just be here on the event of the 00:00:29.350 --> 00:00:33.186 centennial is Well, it's a fantastic opportunity. So I'm here to discuss a 00:00:33.219 --> 00:00:37.226 map I made about Grand Canyon. You probably been looking at it over the 00:00:37.259 --> 00:00:45.259 last day, or so it's It's this really charming, delightful happy map about 00:00:45.409 --> 00:00:49.946 everybody that's died in the every known death I should say that's 00:00:49.979 --> 00:00:53.097 occurred in Grand Canyon, thes to kind of crazy looking maps that have 00:00:53.130 --> 00:01:00.427 been on the wall over here. So this is a talk about that map on my 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:05.516 relationship with that map. Some of the trials tribulations of making it 00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:11.486 on some of the issues that have risen as a as a function of making it s o. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:17.036 In twenty twelve, I made this map I had recently arrived in Israel. I 00:01:17.069 --> 00:01:24.486 started as Rian, twenty, eleven Andi I came to every to help share our 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.857 work flows, help people learn how to make better maps using the free 00:01:27.890 --> 00:01:32.117 software. Of course, you're after good content. You're after useful 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:37.897 information on the people. Khun sort of gravitate to and be interested. 00:01:37.930 --> 00:01:41.747 You know, getting eyes on the map is a really, really important 00:01:41.780 --> 00:01:45.607 characteristic, making that map speak to people in a way that attracts the 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:52.126 men. So in twenty twelve, I made this map of all known deaths in Grand 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:56.346 Canyon. And actually it's two maps. It's a it's a print map on. It's also 00:01:56.379 --> 00:02:00.667 a Web map, both of which required very different approaches. Goes to the 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:08.577 cartographic aspect that I wanted to to work with. So it's It's a story 00:02:08.610 --> 00:02:14.006 about this map. Will these maps inspired by another story? But how did I 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.327 ever get to the point of being fascinated with such a macabre subject for 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:23.217 a map? Well, like many people interested in maps, you can point your truck 00:02:23.250 --> 00:02:27.006 childhood, and you can all normally find an exact moment. When things 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:31.166 began to fall into place. My father was an academic geologist. Back in the 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.946 East Midlands in the middle of the UK, my home was often filled with 00:02:34.979 --> 00:02:40.846 abstract geologic maps of who knows where it's all made up right on. My 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.767 father was good at making up geology maps. In fact, he made up the geology 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.797 of Southern Norway, if you're interested. So I poured over the maps on DH 00:02:49.830 --> 00:02:54.006 Way. Also had a subscription to National Geographic on. You know, I always 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.987 loved it when they would come through the door with a little red label on 00:02:57.020 --> 00:03:01.797 the spine. Meant it had a map. So, you know, you sort of you tip it open 00:03:01.830 --> 00:03:06.147 on the map, falls on you spend some time with the map. So July nineteen, 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:11.277 seventy eight, spine simply said the Grand Canyon on DH. I opened up the 00:03:11.310 --> 00:03:16.876 map. Is a nine year old boy in the middle of England on DH? That was what 00:03:16.909 --> 00:03:21.036 I saw on. We've heard a lot about this, this fantastic map. But perhaps 00:03:21.069 --> 00:03:25.406 more than any this is the one that led me into a career in geography, 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:30.066 which are enjoyed it school and eventually, cartography, which I enjoyed 00:03:30.099 --> 00:03:34.497 university and fell into a career in it. I didn't know who Bradford and 00:03:34.530 --> 00:03:38.017 Barbara Washburn was as a nine year old boy in England. I didn't care. I 00:03:38.050 --> 00:03:42.207 was I was looking at that on. That was the inspiration. That was a map 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:47.957 that inspired me. I didn't even know it was a masterpiece there, You know 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:50.747 , right now, I believe it is. It's one of the best map. Something that has 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:54.717 ever been made. The colors, the shades, the textures. It felt more like a 00:03:54.750 --> 00:04:00.166 painting to me. Um, even though I was looking and extremely accurate map, 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:04.087 of course. What did it evoke it very feelings of. I'm gonna go to that 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:10.367 place sometime and doesn't look like that. Is this Is this a reality? 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.626 So on some level, I also need it. Becoming a geographer and making maps 00:04:14.659 --> 00:04:19.257 like this was something that I wanted. Tio Dio, so fast forward had to 00:04:19.290 --> 00:04:23.346 wait another twenty five years before I got an opportunity to visit in the 00:04:23.379 --> 00:04:29.827 summer of two thousand three on That's me with my better half, Linda at 00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:36.717 the top Mother campground on. If you could turn around. She's watching now 00:04:36.750 --> 00:04:42.217 I'll be home later. Um, so we're on a month long road trip from San Fran 00:04:42.250 --> 00:04:45.046 all the way through some of the you know, the country's most fantastic 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:51.627 scenery and iconic locations way stumped up at the camp ground. It turns 00:04:51.660 --> 00:04:54.467 out Grand Canyon did look a little bit like that map. You know, when you 00:04:54.500 --> 00:04:58.267 sort of first see that you get past all of the stuff in the village and 00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:03.137 you see that the sort of overlooks is stunning. Andi, I also got to go 00:05:03.170 --> 00:05:05.817 again last year with my brother and his family and do the old helicopter 00:05:05.850 --> 00:05:12.656 bit in a canyon. And that was that was fantastic. Um, so what did I use? 00:05:12.689 --> 00:05:17.406 What Matt did I use when I got there? Well, we heard about the shift today. 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:20.796 Who knew I'd actually get to meet Tom Patterson, let alone count him as a 00:05:20.829 --> 00:05:23.937 friend? But, you know, in two thousand three, when I turned up at the gate 00:05:23.970 --> 00:05:29.077 and has handed one of Tom's fantastic maps again, I didn't know who had 00:05:29.110 --> 00:05:36.017 done it, but it was a map that obviously guided me around, uh, canyon. 00:05:36.050 --> 00:05:40.007 So Linda and I was struck by the Majesty. We were just two Brits camping, 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.767 surrounded by deadly animals. Because we don't have deadly animals in the 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:44.976 UK 00:05:45.009 --> 00:05:49.366 on DH on, you know, it gets very dark at night in the campground on. We 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.017 were halfway through the trip, and we've run out of reading material. So I 00:05:53.050 --> 00:05:57.156 went to the visit center and look for something to read in the camper 00:05:57.189 --> 00:06:01.942 tonight. Toe one another on DH. You know, I was immediately drawn to this 00:06:01.975 --> 00:06:06.681 This book. Uh, I don't know why, 00:06:06.714 --> 00:06:10.322 but, you know, this is a This is what Michael Gilly Arian Thomas Mai's 00:06:10.355 --> 00:06:13.322 over the age of death in Grand Canyon had been published in two thousand 00:06:13.355 --> 00:06:16.322 one. And it was great because she could just flick through and see all 00:06:16.355 --> 00:06:21.452 these fascinating, often heart rending stories, sometimes humorous stories 00:06:21.485 --> 00:06:27.752 , how people actually got themselves in some trouble. Um, and I really 00:06:27.785 --> 00:06:31.791 enjoyed the book, but if you've read a book, there's not a lot of maps in 00:06:31.824 --> 00:06:35.911 there. There's general location maps, and I want to know where these 00:06:35.944 --> 00:06:42.902 events had taken place. Okay, so that's 00:06:42.935 --> 00:06:46.882 excuse me, that that's the book practice. Little gory, certainly McCarty, 00:06:46.915 --> 00:06:52.371 but filled with lots of amazing stories. On a side note, it was brought in 00:06:52.404 --> 00:06:57.161 sharp focus, too, is when we were on one of the the buses that go around 00:06:57.194 --> 00:07:01.902 the rim on DH. A lady was getting off the front of the bus. I think it was 00:07:01.935 --> 00:07:06.312 the bright angel trail head on, the driver's said. Excuse me, what? Where 00:07:06.345 --> 00:07:09.822 you going? What are your plans? Andi, she said. I think I'm going to hike 00:07:09.855 --> 00:07:14.092 down into the canyon and then I'm going to get a mule ride back on. He 00:07:14.125 --> 00:07:18.832 looked at her, as did the rest of the bus. She was dressed in a short 00:07:18.865 --> 00:07:23.262 skirt, pink bikini top, flip flops on her feet with a small bottle of 00:07:23.295 --> 00:07:30.541 water on. The driver said, You will die, Andi, Andi, she she didn't go 00:07:30.574 --> 00:07:36.092 down and check, since she's not in the book. So yeah, so the driver 00:07:36.125 --> 00:07:39.902 doesn't want and just drive. But you know, it's It's in stark contrast. We 00:07:39.935 --> 00:07:44.152 go, there is tourists, but it's Ah, it's extremely hostile environment, 00:07:44.185 --> 00:07:48.601 and you could get into a lot of a lot of trouble. So fast forward again. 00:07:48.634 --> 00:07:54.332 Twenty eleven. After twenty years of working in cartography in the UK, I 00:07:54.365 --> 00:07:58.012 left academia. I went to every on this map was rolled up in the corner of 00:07:58.045 --> 00:08:02.786 one of my coworkers offices. It was done by Scott, part of U. S. G s. It's 00:08:02.819 --> 00:08:06.966 a map made in three days. Remember my role as remarries to help develop 00:08:06.999 --> 00:08:10.836 work flows and teach people how to make maps often kind of crazy maps. So 00:08:10.869 --> 00:08:17.145 I had this idea to reinvent this map, but the map had already been created. 00:08:17.178 --> 00:08:20.955 I didn't just want to remake that map. I wanted to do something with it. 00:08:20.988 --> 00:08:26.015 So I had this idea ofthe mapping where deaths that occurred on top ofthe 00:08:26.048 --> 00:08:31.036 this map in all its gory three Deena's. So I got in touch with Michael 00:08:31.069 --> 00:08:36.336 asses. Permission Teo used the book is a source on DH spent some 00:08:36.369 --> 00:08:41.686 considerable time locating all of these deaths. There were about seven 00:08:41.719 --> 00:08:46.966 hundred seventy, four hundred fifty separate incidents. He'd mapped them 00:08:46.999 --> 00:08:52.145 according to ah name, you know, a mile down bright angel trail or a 00:08:52.178 --> 00:08:55.755 particular point of the River River mile roughly. So that's what the 00:08:55.788 --> 00:09:01.186 source data data was. But, you know, if you're working in a joyous you 00:09:01.219 --> 00:09:06.586 need that longs. So I had to create that. That data itself? Um, he also, 00:09:06.619 --> 00:09:12.155 as it turned out, send me a pdf off twenty twelve update of the book just 00:09:12.188 --> 00:09:15.346 before publication. So I was very grateful, for that Meant that the map 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:19.245 was going to be update to the point at which it was going to be published. 00:09:19.278 --> 00:09:23.625 So what about the three day? Well, we heard a little bit yesterday about 00:09:23.658 --> 00:09:27.265 Annika. Lives were probably very familiar with these horrible looking 00:09:27.298 --> 00:09:34.425 images where you have a blue and a red slightly officer image on DH. The 00:09:34.458 --> 00:09:37.275 glasses you wear filter out the blue in the red light, send a different 00:09:37.308 --> 00:09:41.765 image to each eye, and you get this false stereo perspective. But the US 00:09:41.798 --> 00:09:49.446 GS map used a different technique called okay. 00:09:49.479 --> 00:09:53.846 Crime. Miss Dairy, Oscar P. All right After Me Chroma Steri, Oscar P. 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:58.596 Crime Misterio It's not easy to say, 00:09:58.629 --> 00:10:02.005 but it's a technique where you don't offset. The image is what you do is 00:10:02.038 --> 00:10:08.678 you encoded debt using color. Um, And on the left, there is an an English 00:10:08.711 --> 00:10:11.597 version. This is Mount St Helens, and on the right is a chroma 00:10:11.630 --> 00:10:17.877 stereoscopic version. Red is encoded, is closer to your eyes, blue is 00:10:17.910 --> 00:10:21.877 encoded, furthest away, and all the colors of the rainbow fit in between. 00:10:21.910 --> 00:10:25.558 It's not a color scheme I would recommend for ninety nine point nine 00:10:25.591 --> 00:10:28.558 percent of maps, but it's pretty good if you want to make a chroma 00:10:28.591 --> 00:10:35.888 stereoscopic man, The better way of describing this is I'm sure some of 00:10:35.921 --> 00:10:41.227 you know this is the greatest ever album. 00:10:41.260 --> 00:10:45.817 Created, but it's a very simple principle. White light hits a prism and 00:10:45.850 --> 00:10:49.717 with different components of the electromagnetic spectrum, are refracted 00:10:49.750 --> 00:10:53.558 in different ways, and red is refracted closer and blue is refracted 00:10:53.591 --> 00:11:00.928 further away. So that's that's all you need is the glasses, right? 00:11:00.961 --> 00:11:05.688 Um, you can tell how long, Long ago I made this mop I still had here on 00:11:05.721 --> 00:11:10.508 DSO. I've put a few of these glasses out foryou. You've probably been 00:11:10.541 --> 00:11:14.627 looking at the map with them occasionally on DH. If you see one of these 00:11:14.660 --> 00:11:17.947 little glass symbols in the top right of the slides as I cycled through 00:11:17.980 --> 00:11:20.847 the remainder of the presentation, you should be able to put the glasses 00:11:20.880 --> 00:11:25.648 on and see some three D ish in us. It doesn't work for everybody. There 00:11:25.681 --> 00:11:28.018 was a question this morning about how do you deal with colored 00:11:28.051 --> 00:11:32.408 deficiencies and different types of seeing. This's a map for that kind of 00:11:32.441 --> 00:11:37.067 ninety percent. You have what we might call kind of normal color vision, 00:11:37.100 --> 00:11:41.308 so this won't work for everybody. And I'm I'm sorry about that, but 00:11:41.341 --> 00:11:47.278 nowhere accommodating everybody's viewing types and styles. It's it's a 00:11:47.311 --> 00:11:53.107 matter very much that depends on the ability to to see that color so you 00:11:53.140 --> 00:11:56.178 can put the glasses on and you should be able to see that color chart on 00:11:56.211 --> 00:12:01.288 the left. Reds should appear closer to you, and then progressively you go 00:12:01.321 --> 00:12:08.163 through to the dark blues that recede away. 00:12:08.196 --> 00:12:12.712 Okay, um so the color of any individual map element in its immediate 00:12:12.745 --> 00:12:17.972 surrounding determine where it sits in the visual hierarchy off the map. 00:12:18.005 --> 00:12:21.842 Cartographers often use visual hierarchy to bring things closer to the 00:12:21.875 --> 00:12:26.752 viewing point to accentuate or emphasize certain things. And it makes 00:12:26.785 --> 00:12:30.942 other things recede into the background Here. I'm kind of just, you know, 00:12:30.975 --> 00:12:37.582 turning up to eleven and using color toe. Really push that. That contrast. 00:12:37.615 --> 00:12:42.673 All right, so I built a color ramp in Ark map Who remembers our map? Okay 00:12:42.706 --> 00:12:47.883 , um, it's probably any time I mention our matter how someone else in a 00:12:47.916 --> 00:12:51.092 minute. But, you know, you build a color ramping arc mapping algorithmic 00:12:51.125 --> 00:12:55.173 color ramp and you set about creating the basement, which starts with a 00:12:55.206 --> 00:12:58.722 digital elevation model, and actually a lot of the techniques that I'm 00:12:58.755 --> 00:13:02.673 employing a very, very similar to the way in which Tom Patterson was 00:13:02.706 --> 00:13:06.813 describing his work for yesterday. The difference is I'm using Astri 00:13:06.846 --> 00:13:10.383 software. He was largely using adobe. It's kind of two separate ways to 00:13:10.416 --> 00:13:15.622 get to a similar end point, and this is a typical hill shade with 00:13:15.655 --> 00:13:21.482 Northwest illuminated source at two hundred thirty five degrees on forty 00:13:21.515 --> 00:13:25.492 five degree angle. I'm gonna come back to that in a moment. That was my 00:13:25.525 --> 00:13:31.732 basic hill shape. I had elevation tents or hip symmetric tints based on 00:13:31.765 --> 00:13:36.752 that new chroma stereoscopic color ramp. Slightly muted because I didn't 00:13:36.785 --> 00:13:40.803 want really pure colors to be shouting and screaming at people and giving 00:13:40.836 --> 00:13:46.293 everyone a headache. But you can put those together, crunch them with a 00:13:46.326 --> 00:13:49.513 technical pan chromatic sharpening, 00:13:49.546 --> 00:13:53.872 and you end it with red plateaus, greens and browns down through the 00:13:53.905 --> 00:13:58.893 canyon on down to what will eventually become another beautiful blue 00:13:58.926 --> 00:14:06.926 Colorado River. Um, does it work for you? Okay, good. Um, now, if you 00:14:07.005 --> 00:14:11.653 remember that Mount St Helens image a moment ago, it looks a bit bizarre. 00:14:11.686 --> 00:14:15.153 You know, a mountain peak that's red. Where is usually you would see 00:14:15.186 --> 00:14:20.322 whites or purples of something else to commentate elevation. But I thought 00:14:20.355 --> 00:14:25.063 with the Grand Canyon red plateaus and then descending through color in 00:14:25.096 --> 00:14:30.783 the canyon actually wasn't too far of a stretch. Um, it didn't seem too 00:14:30.816 --> 00:14:36.582 weird, even though clearly it's completely made a coloring. So I then, 00:14:36.615 --> 00:14:41.383 from the book from Gilly area in Maya's book, went through, plotted on a 00:14:41.416 --> 00:14:46.842 map. I helped design these pictograms, 00:14:46.875 --> 00:14:51.413 which we're trying to symbolize the character off the incident or the 00:14:51.446 --> 00:14:55.822 circumstances of the death. It's actually a zit. Turns out pretty 00:14:55.855 --> 00:14:59.393 difficult to design symbols when you're you know, you've got suicide and 00:14:59.426 --> 00:15:03.212 other pretty horrific events. 00:15:03.245 --> 00:15:07.722 But we thought we did a pretty good job on DH. I started putting these 00:15:07.755 --> 00:15:11.173 symbols on the map. The only difficulty was always having to use a lot of 00:15:11.206 --> 00:15:15.692 leader lines because it turns out a lot of people didn't venture far from 00:15:15.725 --> 00:15:19.673 the south rim. Um, which has been lazy if you're gonna kill yourself, 00:15:19.706 --> 00:15:24.513 quite frankly. So when you've got this giant map, okay, you've got this 00:15:24.546 --> 00:15:29.322 beautiful environment and you find out they're actually most apart from 00:15:29.355 --> 00:15:33.242 one or two. Most deathly incidents occur in a very small space. You've got 00:15:33.275 --> 00:15:39.202 this classic cartographic problem of scale content, big geography, small 00:15:39.235 --> 00:15:42.582 concentrated area. But that's just the problem to deal with. So I don't 00:15:42.615 --> 00:15:46.273 with it here with a lot of leader lines on DH, I ended it with this man. 00:15:46.306 --> 00:15:52.763 Um, final map layout includes the addition of text context, your detail 00:15:52.796 --> 00:15:58.773 she's symbolized on, and I was by design going for a comic book aesthetic 00:15:58.806 --> 00:16:04.813 . I was going for a very visceral, um, 00:16:04.846 --> 00:16:10.513 sort of esthetic. Where it's designed to get a response was a large poster. 00:16:10.546 --> 00:16:14.263 And so there are these speech bubbles with maybe half a dozen or so 00:16:14.296 --> 00:16:20.383 descriptions from the book off how certain circumstances evolved. But it's 00:16:20.416 --> 00:16:25.173 a fixed, fixed scale because it's a paper map, which meant the top left 00:16:25.206 --> 00:16:29.482 had to have the insect for the South Rim on. I also feel a little bit 00:16:29.515 --> 00:16:32.143 uncomfortable this map because, of course, the really in really in 00:16:32.176 --> 00:16:35.692 interesting area is in the top left. Maybe I should have switched it. 00:16:35.725 --> 00:16:38.883 Maybe the canyon should have gone in the top left and South Room should 00:16:38.916 --> 00:16:42.592 have been the main map. But then you don't get the majesty of the entire 00:16:42.625 --> 00:16:50.625 dragon, Um, so that that's the map and we actually printed it at, and this 00:16:52.625 --> 00:16:58.602 is just about full size. This is Linda again, high for scale on we printed. 00:16:58.635 --> 00:17:02.053 This is a gigantic map of one of our user conferences on Do you know this 00:17:02.086 --> 00:17:05.493 ? People with glasses, and it's a bit of a thrill when you see your your 00:17:05.526 --> 00:17:09.362 work printed at that size, isn't it? 00:17:09.395 --> 00:17:13.842 It's a wonderful thing to see people actually go up to a map that big and 00:17:13.875 --> 00:17:17.513 start touching it. And, you know, you've got people when they're touching 00:17:17.546 --> 00:17:22.813 it. Pointing and getting that reactions is wonder. So obviously, I wrote 00:17:22.846 --> 00:17:27.263 blog's and things to describe how people can make these things, um, 00:17:27.296 --> 00:17:34.523 feedback. Generally. People, um, I liked the map, but, you know, I will be 00:17:34.556 --> 00:17:41.313 totally honest. There was some criticism on the criticism was off the type 00:17:41.346 --> 00:17:47.082 of I think you've been a little bit too graphic, perhaps not quite as 00:17:47.115 --> 00:17:50.553 respectful as you could have been. You know, one person said, you know all 00:17:50.586 --> 00:17:54.322 that red. It looks a little bit like blood splattered all over the map. 00:17:54.355 --> 00:17:58.563 And when you're dealing with subjects of death, you know, maybe I hadn't 00:17:58.596 --> 00:18:02.662 been a sensitive is I perhaps could have been 00:18:02.695 --> 00:18:08.523 So you know, you take on board some of this on you, think about your your 00:18:08.556 --> 00:18:14.632 work. It got a lot of decent press, actually wanted International 00:18:14.665 --> 00:18:19.632 Cartographic Association Award for the Best Best Mac for one one year. It 00:18:19.665 --> 00:18:23.832 was highlighted in another book where, actually, one of my my friend and 00:18:23.865 --> 00:18:27.213 colleagues, Alex, can set an immersion into a sensory experience that is 00:18:27.246 --> 00:18:33.283 perhaps reminiscent of film director Quentin Tarantino's work. 00:18:33.316 --> 00:18:38.672 All right. Okay. Um, and even last year, it turned upon Slovenian national 00:18:38.705 --> 00:18:43.733 TV, where one of mine, our colleagues in cartography a Duchin Petrovich 00:18:43.766 --> 00:18:48.013 was there talking about maps that have kind of peaked people's attention 00:18:48.046 --> 00:18:52.622 in the past few years on the print map itself has been downloaded one and 00:18:52.655 --> 00:18:55.642 a half thousand times. 00:18:55.675 --> 00:19:00.003 So what about a Web version? Well, you can't put all those points on a map 00:19:00.036 --> 00:19:03.243 because you live on his opponent. You get death by pushpin. You know the 00:19:03.276 --> 00:19:09.402 classic one dot for every incident. So I wanted to employ a technical 00:19:09.435 --> 00:19:14.473 binning which aggregate data that is closely 00:19:14.506 --> 00:19:21.402 located at smaller scales. So you end up creating set of bins. I used 00:19:21.435 --> 00:19:25.773 hexagons because hexagons best shape ever. Andi, you can see now that in 00:19:25.806 --> 00:19:29.682 certain parts of the South Rim particular twenty deaths, four deaths, 00:19:29.715 --> 00:19:35.682 whatever, I turned the pictograms symbols into hexagons to align It turns 00:19:35.715 --> 00:19:38.832 out that triangle is don't test like what they do tests late. But you have 00:19:38.865 --> 00:19:42.773 to have upside down triangles if you're going to go that way. So hexagons 00:19:42.806 --> 00:19:47.963 became at the shape of choice. Um 00:19:47.996 --> 00:19:51.932 And then if we're creating a single map, Okay, You have one scale and you 00:19:51.965 --> 00:19:58.063 have to make certain decisions on the mat becomes the map for a Web map. 00:19:58.096 --> 00:20:02.102 You're in a multi scale environment, so you basically have to make a CZ 00:20:02.135 --> 00:20:09.142 many different maps for each scale so that each scale it works on that. 00:20:09.175 --> 00:20:13.912 The transition between scales also works. So don't let anybody tell you 00:20:13.945 --> 00:20:19.253 Web maps a simple okay, there they're pretty simple to make, but to make 00:20:19.286 --> 00:20:22.803 them work at multiple scales, there's a little bit of a task, and I'm not 00:20:22.836 --> 00:20:25.622 going to go through the detail of this. But you could just see by how that 00:20:25.655 --> 00:20:28.872 grid is completed, that there are lots of different decisions about 00:20:28.905 --> 00:20:35.172 content, visibility at different scales, and it ended up looking a little 00:20:35.205 --> 00:20:39.402 bit like that. It was fairly clunky, but that was only because our Web 00:20:39.435 --> 00:20:43.862 technology was fairly rudimentary in the very early stages. Back in twenty 00:20:43.895 --> 00:20:48.313 twelve on, this is the first desperation of the Web map. Ondas, you zoom 00:20:48.346 --> 00:20:53.652 in. You go from those hexagons down into the individual symbols. Um, I 00:20:53.685 --> 00:20:58.632 never liked this map. The benefit of the Web map meant that you can click 00:20:58.665 --> 00:21:03.122 on each of these icons and actually get the details. What happened? Who 00:21:03.155 --> 00:21:07.063 died? What were the circumstances? What was the source material? Whether 00:21:07.096 --> 00:21:12.082 it was a newspaper reporter, a national parks Service, instant report and 00:21:12.115 --> 00:21:16.233 so on. You can't do that with a print match, So they're obviously very 00:21:16.266 --> 00:21:20.553 good reasons why you might want your information as a Web map and not a 00:21:20.586 --> 00:21:26.993 print map. I never liked you. Although I checked it been viewed about one 00:21:27.026 --> 00:21:31.543 hundred twenty thousand times a until a few weeks a day which isn't quite 00:21:31.576 --> 00:21:37.443 three and a half million of Tom's maps. But I'LL take it so I always 00:21:37.476 --> 00:21:41.993 wanted to update them. You need two things You need a reason to update on 00:21:42.026 --> 00:21:48.443 D you need new data? Um, because any map like this that sadly data is out 00:21:48.476 --> 00:21:55.063 of date almost assumes the map is out. Um, on DH, I just need an excuse. 00:21:55.096 --> 00:22:01.443 And the excuse came in the rather bizarre fashion off fresh Prince of Bel 00:22:01.476 --> 00:22:06.993 Air. So he turned fifty last year. Andi, hey, was going bungee jump out of 00:22:07.026 --> 00:22:12.003 a helicopter over the canyon to celebrate on DH. I just turned fifty and I 00:22:12.036 --> 00:22:17.342 went out for a nice meal, so that probably okay. He probably explains a 00:22:17.375 --> 00:22:21.342 lot. Anyway, the production company got in touch. That's seen the map. 00:22:21.375 --> 00:22:26.622 They wanted to use it. They wanted my map on. And I was a little concerned. 00:22:26.655 --> 00:22:31.142 Is will Smith going to end up on my map? But anyway, you know the 00:22:31.175 --> 00:22:33.773 possibility of having you work alongside Will Smith in one of these 00:22:33.806 --> 00:22:40.273 productions? I thought, Yeah, let's do it. Why not? So off I went on dh. 00:22:40.306 --> 00:22:45.622 So that's, well, bungee jumping. He survived the National Park Service 00:22:45.655 --> 00:22:48.832 search and rescue guys Very helpful. They gave me updated information to 00:22:48.865 --> 00:22:51.592 the end of last year, 00:22:51.625 --> 00:22:55.523 and I said about creating the map. I wanted to improve the hill shade. 00:22:55.556 --> 00:23:00.102 Remember, that's the old Hill shade. There's lots of problems with it on 00:23:00.135 --> 00:23:04.642 DH. I'm just gonna fix to the new one. There's actually actually sixty 00:23:04.675 --> 00:23:10.372 different hill shades going on in there alone, smooshed together to create 00:23:10.405 --> 00:23:14.632 something that maybe shows the bedding a little bit better. The steepness 00:23:14.665 --> 00:23:18.263 of some of the cliff edges and someone and then I have dated the colors 00:23:18.296 --> 00:23:26.296 and turned it into into that. So I saturated my are saturated my chroma 00:23:26.786 --> 00:23:31.332 stereoscopic elevation tensy mawr to push it up a little bit. So that, 00:23:31.365 --> 00:23:36.193 perhaps, helps the three D experience. Remember that original Grand Canyon 00:23:36.226 --> 00:23:40.612 map? Tibor Toth use a lot of saturated stuff. And actually, the hill 00:23:40.645 --> 00:23:45.622 shading did similar sort of job very dramatic. 00:23:45.655 --> 00:23:51.332 And so I went from this map to this map. The new map. Um, they spent about 00:23:51.365 --> 00:23:56.013 a hundred new deathly incident since the twenty twelve version, which this 00:23:56.046 --> 00:23:58.973 map incorporates. 00:23:59.006 --> 00:24:03.293 Does it work? In three days. All right, let's take a little vote. Do you 00:24:03.326 --> 00:24:09.382 prefer the new one Hansa or the old one? So new one 00:24:09.415 --> 00:24:12.443 old one. 00:24:12.476 --> 00:24:17.023 OK, eso improving on your work is a great cartographic tenant, so there's 00:24:17.056 --> 00:24:22.092 less red. It's less dramatic. It's perhaps less visceral, visceral, but 00:24:22.125 --> 00:24:25.142 perhaps that's amore. 00:24:25.175 --> 00:24:31.533 Long term usability. Um, there's now a satellite image behind it, so it's 00:24:31.566 --> 00:24:35.572 not completely red. This is kind of a focused area. I decided not to 00:24:35.605 --> 00:24:39.412 encode elevation intothe symbol so it keeps it cleaner and more simple. 00:24:39.445 --> 00:24:42.412 There's still an insect, but I've managed not to have any leader lines on 00:24:42.445 --> 00:24:46.523 this map, which was a challenge. But that's what car cartography is about 00:24:46.556 --> 00:24:49.362 to make the challenge. 00:24:49.395 --> 00:24:53.162 He's already shown me five minutes. Now you show me five minutes. I'm 00:24:53.195 --> 00:24:58.003 going with you. 00:24:58.036 --> 00:25:02.342 So I downplayed the three D characteristic. I downplayed that comic book 00:25:02.375 --> 00:25:05.922 aesthetic, got it back to something that perhaps is a little more standard 00:25:05.955 --> 00:25:10.243 but still has that three D nous. It's perhaps more harmonious. They're 00:25:10.276 --> 00:25:15.842 shouting. I would still contend that if you went Tio Matt Gallery, that 00:25:15.875 --> 00:25:19.273 red map, the really read one, would draw you in first, but you would 00:25:19.306 --> 00:25:23.642 probably go to that one on the right more often. You probably wouldn't go 00:25:23.675 --> 00:25:28.672 back to the the harsh, Bright Red and then the Web because a timeout time 00:25:28.705 --> 00:25:33.003 , I'm not going to go out to the live map. I'm just show us few stills. 00:25:33.036 --> 00:25:37.503 The Web version is is very similar to the print version, but you can click 00:25:37.536 --> 00:25:42.243 on the hexagons and get information about the summary of everything that 00:25:42.276 --> 00:25:47.303 happened at that particular point. Technically, if you come to the house, 00:25:47.336 --> 00:25:50.382 we use a conference next July. I'Ll tell you how this is made differently 00:25:50.415 --> 00:25:54.652 to the previous one. There's a lot of different stuff, but in very, very 00:25:54.685 --> 00:26:00.342 quick way art. Matt was a pain in the proverbial to get this onto the Web. 00:26:00.375 --> 00:26:04.082 Now we use are just pro, and it's literally right quick, right click 00:26:04.115 --> 00:26:08.265 publish. And there it is. So a lot has happened technologically in the 00:26:08.298 --> 00:26:12.615 last six or seven years. That has made this map far more easily published 00:26:12.648 --> 00:26:16.815 to the Web. If only that happened several years ago might still have a bit 00:26:16.848 --> 00:26:24.376 more head. You know that's life, so 00:26:24.409 --> 00:26:28.406 The other thing I've been doing just to kind of finish up over the last 00:26:28.439 --> 00:26:34.166 year or so is is Write a book on DH. Memory started this story with a book. 00:26:34.199 --> 00:26:38.716 We went to the bookshop and bought the book, and it became a map on DH. 00:26:38.749 --> 00:26:42.495 I've written a book that I've now been able to put my work into. It is 00:26:42.528 --> 00:26:46.446 kind of turning around, but that's a little bit arrogant putting your own 00:26:46.479 --> 00:26:50.085 work in a book. So I've also put what I still considered to be one of the 00:26:50.118 --> 00:26:54.845 world's best maps in the book and with a lovely commentary by the current 00:26:54.878 --> 00:26:58.495 director of Carter, director of Cartography, National Geographic, marking 00:26:58.528 --> 00:27:03.575 the mash on who expresses his view of this map. Has the work that went 00:27:03.608 --> 00:27:08.325 into this map set the bar for what cartographic excellence was? It still 00:27:08.358 --> 00:27:14.386 does on DH. You know, someone like me from a nine year old to fifty making 00:27:14.419 --> 00:27:18.186 maps I still can't make a map is good, is this? But that's the beauty of 00:27:18.219 --> 00:27:24.476 mapping. You can still keep trying so 00:27:24.509 --> 00:27:27.406 whatever happened to my math being used in the world? Smith Bungee jump 00:27:27.439 --> 00:27:31.345 film? It didn't. 00:27:31.378 --> 00:27:36.825 It ended up on the cutting room floor, but to my mind, that's a lot better 00:27:36.858 --> 00:27:41.295 than will end in upon the canyon floor and me having to put him on the on 00:27:41.328 --> 00:27:47.896 the map. So I've got one final slide. But before I get to that, I put 00:27:47.929 --> 00:27:55.245 these glasses out on one of them. I, um I left my business card and it 00:27:55.278 --> 00:28:01.706 said, written on the card. Do not discard. So who found that? 00:28:01.739 --> 00:28:05.745 Come back to you in about thirty seconds. So the final slide. Thank you 00:28:05.778 --> 00:28:10.804 very much for for listening. 00:28:10.837 --> 00:28:16.594 I'm contractually obliged. Teo put that up there. But those two euros at 00:28:16.627 --> 00:28:21.395 the top of the first one takes you to the Web map of this newly updated 00:28:21.428 --> 00:28:26.195 map. The second one takes you to a pdf, which you can download to your 00:28:26.228 --> 00:28:31.415 leisure and print out. If you so wish so they're both both free. You can 00:28:31.448 --> 00:28:35.675 take them and use them. You, khun, by the book, if you like, it's actually 00:28:35.708 --> 00:28:38.695 quite good. 00:28:38.728 --> 00:28:46.728 This gentleman down here gets a free copy. 00:28:47.837 --> 00:28:50.124 Okay, 00:28:50.157 --> 00:28:58.157 so that that's it. That's my Friday. Thank you very much. 00:29:03.887 --> 00:29:08.344 That was an amazing 00:29:08.377 --> 00:29:11.955 amazing president. 00:29:11.988 --> 00:29:17.245 It was quite good. I was so good. It broke the speaker already broken 00:29:17.278 --> 00:29:25.278 microphones. So we have time for a couple questions for Dr Field anybody? 00:29:25.708 --> 00:29:28.884 So Justin to pick a little less. I'm sure. You know. Well, Smith jumped 00:29:28.917 --> 00:29:31.995 into the little Colorado. Yeah, he was outside. Boundaries. So that least 00:29:32.028 --> 00:29:35.405 me, where do you draw the boundaries for your map? Mean, since there, some 00:29:35.438 --> 00:29:38.604 of these deaths are happening in the Colorado drainage, but outside the 00:29:38.637 --> 00:29:41.364 boundaries of I think they're all within the national park boundaries. If 00:29:41.397 --> 00:29:44.735 I'm right, okay. Yeah, I have to go back. Check. Okay, because I know I 00:29:44.768 --> 00:29:47.784 know the park service didn't allow him to do things like that. Are you 00:29:47.817 --> 00:29:50.564 know, the other people trying to you know, the fact that the map showed 00:29:50.597 --> 00:29:54.784 earlier? I didn't put the boundary on, but his little bungee thing came. 00:29:54.817 --> 00:30:02.645 Thanks, Little Colorado. 00:30:02.678 --> 00:30:05.935 We'LL come back that way. 00:30:05.968 --> 00:30:09.547 Several years ago. I ready are actually skim read a book and Hayden 00:30:09.580 --> 00:30:14.118 Library. And at that time there were two California students, college 00:30:14.151 --> 00:30:21.368 students who had a wild, uh, several weeks by going down the Colorado. And 00:30:21.401 --> 00:30:26.457 at that time, because no one knew where they were, they were rumored to be 00:30:26.490 --> 00:30:31.878 dead in the Colorado. Turned out later on, they hiked up the South Rim. 00:30:31.911 --> 00:30:35.477 And when they found him that park people wouldn't let him go back and 00:30:35.510 --> 00:30:40.578 continue the trip. But with some fast talking, they were able to continue 00:30:40.611 --> 00:30:43.997 the trip. I'm just wondering, have you run into that particular story? 00:30:44.030 --> 00:30:47.517 Because I don't even remember the title of it. But they wrote a pretty 00:30:47.550 --> 00:30:51.497 sizable book about that. I'm wondering if you have very many near misses 00:30:51.530 --> 00:30:55.297 where people have been reported, and I think that was reported in papers 00:30:55.330 --> 00:31:00.068 all over the country. Have you run into that guy? So the short answer is 00:31:00.101 --> 00:31:03.797 no. But I'll give you the reason. Like many cartographers who are 00:31:03.830 --> 00:31:07.717 interested in mapping data, we don't care about the subject matter too 00:31:07.750 --> 00:31:15.188 much. It's just data. It's a map. Okay. Um, so you know, I take my source. 00:31:15.221 --> 00:31:18.777 I'll trust my source. I report my source 00:31:18.810 --> 00:31:23.338 the park service. They say our guys have given me up the updated data. I 00:31:23.371 --> 00:31:28.158 trust that is the source. But, Mike Mike, my role in this is to make a map 00:31:28.191 --> 00:31:31.888 ofthe that data you're going out and doing under the euro twos with the 00:31:31.921 --> 00:31:36.277 research to fill in the gaps. And that's that's for the Washburn's of this 00:31:36.310 --> 00:31:41.398 world. You know? You know, I make this map in a week or so and I move on 00:31:41.431 --> 00:31:47.957 to another map, and that's part of what I do, say, yeah. 00:31:47.990 --> 00:31:55.990 Um, I was wondering if, uh, thiss topic is pretty macabre. Pretty Grimm. I 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.328 was wondering, though, if this was the first time that you've really 00:31:59.361 --> 00:32:04.318 mapped out something like this a similar topic or and if in the future you 00:32:04.351 --> 00:32:12.119 want to look into other, you know, very complex topic. So I have a I have 00:32:12.152 --> 00:32:16.458 a Web site at work. Carter dot maps dot are just dot com. And if you go 00:32:16.491 --> 00:32:22.329 there, there's actually a really frightening pattern. I'm it turns out I 00:32:22.362 --> 00:32:28.468 end up mapping a lot of deathly stuff. Um, I'm not going to show you now, 00:32:28.501 --> 00:32:32.438 but yeah, I have to get away from some of this at times because, you know 00:32:32.471 --> 00:32:36.599 , a lot of times date data is 00:32:36.632 --> 00:32:40.428 it's all past events and clearly dead people are past events, so it 00:32:40.461 --> 00:32:45.909 becomes a good data source. So I ended up doing that quite a bit, but 00:32:45.942 --> 00:32:52.589 wherever possible, you know, maps of soccer maps of football for May, maps 00:32:52.622 --> 00:32:55.809 of iris surnames, you know, you name it. You can Just good data that 00:32:55.842 --> 00:33:00.659 creates a good thematic map is the key 00:33:00.692 --> 00:33:05.849 Hi. Um, did you think about doing any, um, heat maps or anything for types 00:33:05.882 --> 00:33:11.488 of death? S o. The types of death are broadly encoded in those symbols. 00:33:11.521 --> 00:33:16.028 Okay. You know, you could You could perhaps make slightly more symbols 00:33:16.061 --> 00:33:20.958 because, you know, Rive Aries is river traveler. It's crossing the river. 00:33:20.991 --> 00:33:24.188 It's drowned while swimming the sorts of different subcategories 00:33:24.221 --> 00:33:27.849 categories. But, you know, I felt maybe nine or ten symbols did did a good 00:33:27.882 --> 00:33:33.438 enough job. Fall is another one, Is it? Fall in the canyon on the rim, 00:33:33.471 --> 00:33:37.208 crossing a road, is it? What is it? So you have to make those decisions 00:33:37.241 --> 00:33:41.188 about generalizing your data in your categories to a point which you think 00:33:41.221 --> 00:33:48.049 works that map heat maps. That's a great one on DH. This has been live 00:33:48.082 --> 00:33:53.958 stream, so be careful what I say by hate. Heat maps 00:33:53.991 --> 00:33:59.218 largely because they formed this amorphous blob of something. Okay, each 00:33:59.251 --> 00:34:03.438 of those points is a point. I can see where something happened. If I 00:34:03.471 --> 00:34:09.064 aggregate into this sort of blob that shades out with transparent just 00:34:09.097 --> 00:34:12.994 someone known area in the classic. One is you take. You take any maps 00:34:13.027 --> 00:34:17.773 where you're maybe mapping something occurs on land. Let's say the entire 00:34:17.806 --> 00:34:22.124 West Coast, the USA, so many clothes on land, you create a heat map. That 00:34:22.157 --> 00:34:26.224 symbol goes off into the Pacific Ocean. But clearly the events can happen 00:34:26.257 --> 00:34:30.104 there. So you have been very careful when you making heat maps that you 00:34:30.137 --> 00:34:36.303 work within the bounds of logic. People are gonna believe what they see. 00:34:36.336 --> 00:34:39.564 Not necessarily, no. The processes that you've gone through is a 00:34:39.597 --> 00:34:42.503 cartographer to get there and therefore able to reflect on that. As part 00:34:42.536 --> 00:34:49.684 of that, they're seeing that sort of answer. Is it now 00:34:49.717 --> 00:34:53.854 so I actually I don't have a question and a comment. I was thinking, maybe 00:34:53.887 --> 00:34:58.903 for your next map. Uh, considering that you liked a Pink Floyd dark side 00:34:58.936 --> 00:35:04.294 of the moon, perhaps you could do a death map of lunar rovers on the dark 00:35:04.327 --> 00:35:08.494 side of the moon and three D. 00:35:08.527 --> 00:35:11.294 Okay? 00:35:11.327 --> 00:35:15.294 Just remember me when you publish that man. All right, let's get on Mars. 00:35:15.327 --> 00:35:21.414 If that helps, I put David Bowie on the map. What do you want, 00:35:21.447 --> 00:35:25.534 huh? All right, let's give Dr Field around of applause. Thank you. Thank 00:35:25.567 --> 00:35:27.567 you.