Powers earned 🐉

• You now have the skills to create a map.
• Now, let's give it a little attitude
• and start thinking about a final project.

S24 mapping courses

• GEO 309: Intro to GIS
  • MWF: 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
  • TR: 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
• GEO 361: GIS Applications for Health
  • MWF: 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

Completing the course

• You NEED to reserve your library tour time for task 4 (5 points)
• You NEED to make it to recitation to complete task 5. (5 points)
• You NEED to make it to lecture AND recitation to complete the final project. (20 points)

Election day week lectures

• Election day: Zoom session (check Canvas for link) where you can ask questions about the final project – or anything else.
• Thursday: fonts and figure-ground
• You NEED to make it to lecture AND recitation to complete the final project. (20 points)

20 points!

• What do you like?
• It can be made into a map.
• Next week, we're gonna ask for an idea. (5/20 points)

Reflection across town

• What is your "twin" reflected across Main Street?
• Demonstration of a method used in the FoldedMapProject.com
• Instructions

BluDDCon

• Needs a festival or fantasy map.
• Do both for extra credit.
• Instructions

Fantasy map?

• Gamers need maps
• and they often harvest them from real geography.
• Red Dead Redemption 2 example.

Science-y looking maps

• Late 1800s: Climate determines pattern of culture.
• Justified colonialism in non-western world.
• KY native Ellen Churchill Semple was an early contributor.

The humble 🐙

• Became a symbol of human greed
• on maps.
• Scare the viewer to hold their attention.

Don't need a monster

• Just the right color and words.
• William Bunge Nuclear War Atlas, 1982

Persuasive maps

• hold your attention
• and engage your imagination.
• Viewer decides value.

Why maps?

• Viewers often think maps represent reality.
• Artifact with instant credibility.
• Bending Lines exhibition.

Maps as visual medium

• Like a movie poster or photograph
• you see it all at once.
• Use visual hierarchy to help viewer find value.

How to hold someone's attention?

• Make them think, "that's cool."
• Composition will be first challenge.
• Let's explore some of your maps.

Font

• The form of words
• need to be legible and readable.
• The most important selection you make.

Typeface

• Family of similar fonts.
• Pick three typefaces
  • Sans serif
  • Serif
  • Accent (for titles)

Figure/ground

• Print: ground is paper color
• Digital: ground is no color
• Figure: you.

BluDDCon

• Needs a festival or fantasy map.
• Do both for extra credit.
• Instructions

STOP