Cartographic Design of Cultural Maps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04688v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:53:45 GMT
• Title: Cartographic Design of Cultural Maps
• Authors: Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Marios Constantinides, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia, Wonyoung So, Melanie Bancilhon
• Abstract summary: We collected a dataset of 5,000 streets across the cities of Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. We built cultural maps grounded on cartographic storytelling techniques.
• Score: 2.217384420802095
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Throughout history, maps have been used as a tool to explore cities. They visualize a city's urban fabric through its streets, buildings, and points of interest. Besides purely navigation purposes, street names also reflect a city's culture through its commemorative practices. Therefore, cultural maps that unveil socio-cultural characteristics encoded in street names could potentially raise citizens' historical awareness. But designing effective cultural maps is challenging, not only due to data scarcity but also due to the lack of effective approaches to engage citizens with data exploration. To address these challenges, we collected a dataset of 5,000 streets across the cities of Paris, Vienna, London, and New York, and built their cultural maps grounded on cartographic storytelling techniques. Through data exploration scenarios, we demonstrated how cultural maps engage users and allow them to discover distinct patterns in the ways these cities are gender-biased, celebrate various professions, and embrace foreign cultures.

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