atlanta's electric car routes, 1928
DESCRIPTION
This is the beginning of a map that will trace electric car routes in Atlanta on a 1928 map of the city and hyperlink information about the routes (including pictures, ownership information, descriptions and trivia) to their line drawings.TRANSCRIPT
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STILL IN TRANSIT
• Mapping project centered on Atlanta’s electric car-lines built on a 1928 map.
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MAPPING PROJECT
• Tracing the routes of electric cars on 50 maps of Atlanta in 1928.
• Each route comprises line segments without a break: over 700 such lines.
• Unearthing historical sources for data, anecdotes, photographs.
• Hyper-linking routes and attaching information to the maps.
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HOLLABACK!The iPhone application
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Attaching narrative to place
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Scanned maps of Atlanta 1928
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Mapping route lines
• In the Editor function, each rail line had to be connected through a series of points.
• Before a curve, intersection or deviation, the line is ended with a double-click.
• The line then shows up in blue.
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•The street name is then added to the attribute table.
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No. 19?
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Historical route map of June 1924
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Meta-data
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i= Identify
•Once the routes have been mapped, data sources from the library yield information with which to populate the map.•The data currently includes ownership details, route changes, historical information, photographs as well as anecdotes.•For instance in the late 1800s, dummy engines running on these tracks led to spirited protest from ladies who complained about soot accumulation on the lace curtains of their parlors.
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Routes contain hyperlinks
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Challenge: Presenting dense data
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Using mapping in pedagogy
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