Notes from the SXSW I neocartography panel
15 March 2009 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 2 comments
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?)
- 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.
