{"id":16,"date":"2014-10-22T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spatialdeterminants.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:04:53","slug":"when-mapping-doesnt-need-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/2014\/when-mapping-doesnt-need-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"When mapping doesn&#8217;t need maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        When mapping doesn&#8217;t need maps\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2014\/oct\/22\/-sp-voting-rights-identification-how-friendly-is-your-state\">Guardian interactive<\/a> on voting rights in the US is a fantastic example of how data can interface with maps, while not only using maps. The main interface to explore the data is a series of equal-sized boxes organised spatially as the States are on a map. This isn&#8217;t new, but comparing the interactive map to the graduated circle maps lower on the page, you can clearly see how much easier it is to interpret the underlying data. I would be interested in seeing the data from the graphs available on this map as well.<a href=\"https:\/\/spatialdeterminants.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/statemap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17\" src=\"https:\/\/spatialdeterminants.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/statemap.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"statemap\" width=\"660\" height=\"439\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Guardian interactive on voting rights in the US is a fantastic example of how data can interface with maps, while not only using maps. The main interface to explore the data is a series of equal-sized boxes organised spatially as the States are on a map. This isn&#8217;t new, but comparing the interactive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}