deep maps, spatial narratives position paper
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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
WOMAT-AFR-BEA-227-2-2
Centre Point Coordinates: 2.4290,34.7319(According to Wikipedia)
WOMAT-AFR-BEA-227-2-2
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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Mia Ridge
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.