Qualitative Spatial Analysis (Web Mapping)

READINGS

1. Todd Presner, and David Shepard, “Mapping the Geospatial Turn,” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015), 199–212.
2. Edward L. Ayers and Scott Nesbit, “Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South,” The Journal of the Civil War Era 1, no. 1 (2011): 3–24. .
   1. Digital Scholarship Lab, Visualizing Emancipation
3. Nicholas Terpstra, “Locating the sex trade in the early modern city: Space, sense and regulation in sixteenth-century Florence,” In Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City, ed Nicholas Terpstra and Colin Rose. Basingstoke: Routledge, 2016.
   1. Decima
4. Cameron Blevins, “Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston,” Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 122–47.
   1. Cameron Blevins, “Mining and Mapping the Production of Space”

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Mapping American Social Movements: https://depts.washington.edu/moves/index.shtml
• Digital Harrisburg: https://digitalharrisburg.com/
• Mapping the Gay Guides –  http://www.mappingthegayguides.org/
• Mapping Early Modern London: https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/map.htm
• Medieval Murder Maps: https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/.
• Mapping Historical New York: https://mappinghny.com/.

SUGGESTED TOOLS

• Leaflet
  • Ethan Watrall, “Webmapping (with Leaflet) Lab”
  • Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga, “From Paper Maps to the Web,” NYPL Labs
  • Kim Pham, “Web Mapping with Python and Leaflet, The Programming Historian.
• Kepler
  • Stephen Robertson, “Digital Mapping with kepler.gl”
• Carto
  • SSRC tutorial
• Tableau
  • Miriam Posner tutorial #1: Make a Map with Tableau
  • Miriam Posner tutorial #2: Geocoding, layers, and basemaps