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Andrew Turner's "Beyond Google Maps" presentation at the 2008 Future of Web Apps Expo in London.

Source: Future of Web Apps Expo

This is an impressive presentation! More than just Google Maps (Andrew didn't choose the title), it should be called "Evolved Maps, deconstructed."

Andrew begins with a brief history of mapping, including African story mapping and Polynesian navigation maps. Along the way he touches on the intersection of geography and meaning (psychogeography), slippy maps & spinny globes. Turner's Introduction to Neogeography (O'Reilly) is worth checking out if you haven't already.

So where next? How to do real rich geographic applications?

Neocartography: Mapping Design and Usability Evolved

Designers are dropping maps into their applications with little concern for usability or design and users are getting "Google Map fatigue." We need to move beyond the simple pin-dropping and consider appropriate mapping interfaces. This panel will look at the current and emerging tools to provide compelling geographic interaction and visualization.

• Andrew Turner, Mapufacture
• Michal Migurski, CTO, Stamen Design
• David Heyman, Axis Maps LLC
• Elizabeth Windram, Senior User Experience Designer, Google

Please note: These notes were typed and published live. I'll clean them up at some point in the future. Audio forthcoming.

Andrew started with a slideshow of where we’ve come from: past/present comparison. Driving directions from the 20s compared to Google Streetview. Took old concepts and moved to the Web. Where has it worked/not worked. New paradigms for what is possible with cartography. (Will Turner post to SlideShare?)

• http://tr.im/carto_questions
• http://delicious.com/tag/sxsw+neocartography

Red dot fever

When the Google Maps API first really hit the scene lots of web programmers mashed up locations with Google maps and used a red splodge as a location. When you have lots of these symbols on a map you get a screen view that looks as if your PC has come down with measles, hence red dot fever.

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An O'Reilly webcast presented by Andrew Turner on 24 October 2008.

In this live webcast, geospatial web expert Andrew Turner will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications. Open standards such as GeoRSS, KML and Microformats provide a huge wealth of information for mashups and applications, and libraries such as Mapstraction can be used for cartographic visualization. To illustrate the power of these tools, Andrew will talk about some interesting applications and hacks that have pushed the boundaries of the GeoWeb.

We'll also take a look at the future of location-enabled applications and services that developers can use today to provide users with better contextualized and localized information. Mobile sensors, augmented and immersive reality, and geo-games are just a few of the next generation Where 2.0 domain.

Andrew will also give a short demo of the just-launched GeoCommons Maker.

Source: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1156