Deep maps, spatial narratives

Mia RidgeBritish Library

Framing the methodological foundations for Deep Mapping and spatial story telling workshop, West

Virginia UniversityMay 2016

http://flickr.com/

http://www.bl.uk/subjects/maps

'Incomplete Drawing by R.G.S.' - War Office ledger (WOOS-7-2), British Library

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1cAf4fqJK_-_zq8e2hCeAyy3C0e4

British Library Georeferencer

http://www.bl.uk/maps/

WOMAT-AFR-BEA-227-2-2

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Centre Point Coordinates: 2.4290,34.7319(According to Wikipedia)

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http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/a/003ktop00000052u046l0000.html

Where is the scene depicted?Where else could it reasonably be located?

Who created it, why and where?Who collected it, why and where?

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/a/003ktop00000052u046l0000.html

The physical impossibility of the deep map in the mind of someone living?

(with apologies to Damien Hirst)

‘Collaborative Collections’

http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne

Off the Map 2013 http://puddinglanedmuga.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.slideshare.net/miaridge/interface-designs-for-deep-maps-a-presentation-from-polisneh-to-ucladh

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http://maps.google.co.uk/

http://www.slideshare.net/miaridge/interface-designs-for-deep-maps-a-presentation-from-polisneh-to-ucladh

Thomas Onwhyn, Comic Map of the Seat of War with entirely new features [The Crimean War], 1854. British Library Maps X.6168.