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What present am I in?
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Were I to hazard a suggestion, it would be in
favour of adding to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,
to which the instruction of the poor is commonly
limited, some knowledge of Geography; such as
can easily be conveyed by a Globe and Maps...Noinformation seems better calculated to expand themind andgratify curiosity than that would thus beimparted.
James Madison
1822
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VISION.
STATUS.
FUTURE.
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to transform the way
we see the world andpresent it as it
isinterconnected,
complex andmalleable.
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First, keep old data from rotting.
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Then, organize interdisciplinary knowledge
around place and time
From topic and person To time and place
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Finally, lower barriers to entry to empowera wider variety of passionate voices
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Tribes, Clans and Nomadic Peoples
Villages, Towns, Cities and Slums
SportsEmpires,
Kingdoms and
Dynasties
Slavery, Diasporas and Remittances
Wars, Battles, Treaties, and Borders
Urbanization
Genocide, Human Rights
Abuses, and Human
Trafficking
MUSICAL GENRES
Environmental change
Finance,
Manufacturing and
Trade
Biological Stress, Extinction, and Invasive
Species
Inventions
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VISION.
STATUS.
FUTURE.
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New tools Ancient practices
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Data Commons
Peer Review Platform
Storytelling Application
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TemporalSocial
Narrative
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Add
StoryLayers
Build
MapStories
Critique &
Collaborate
Discover
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Add StoryLayers
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Build MapStories
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Collaborate/Critique
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Discover
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VISION.
STATUS.
FUTURE.
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FEATURES IN DEVELOPMENT
Improved social features Activity feeds and personalization
More and better vector format support
Better metadata and reflections
Enhanced narrative capabilities Temporal raster upload
Versioned editing
tools.mapstory.org (warper, geocoder,
longitudinal gazateer) Organization and place pages
Mobile
Translation
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5000 years of evolving political boundaries
Pangea until now (Plate Tectonics anyone?)
200,000 years of sea rise, sea fall
Histories of university campuses Major U.S. Civil War Battles
Historical sequences of aerial imagery for
local MapStories Histories of death and disease
and on and on and on and on and on
CONTENT ON THE WAY
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MapStory Teaching Fellows Providing small grants to leading educators to help us co-design
the future of the platform
MapStory Technical Core Organizing a community of geospatial professionals and early
MapStory adopters to help build tutorials, guides and other toolsto make MapStorytelling more accessible for less technical users
MapStory Local Supporting a growing number of communities to map their
development over time based on the model initiated in Ames, Iowaby Nitin Gadia
Campus & Community Chapters Recognizing self-organized groups interested in working together
over time on different MapStory projects
BUILDING A COMMUNITYNOT A COMPANY
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Start-up investment for MapStory was
provided by the Engineering Research
and Development Center of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, an
organization with a long-standingtradition of promoting technological
advances in geography and access to
geographic knowledge.
With a beta platform now in place
geared primarily at professional
researchers and geographers, we arenow looking to bridge to new
sponsors interested in molding
MapStory into an accessible open
educational resource for teachers,
students, journalists, and other
passionate information communities
that have important stories to tell but
need a more robust and supportive
learning ecosystem in order to do so.
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WHATYOUCAN DO NOW
Add data (StoryLayers) with CSV and shapefiles
Build MapStories based on StoryLayers that exist so far
Critique content
Discover content by time, topic, place and person
Experiment with new projects (like MapStory Local) that will push us furtherby working independently, forming a Chapter, or organizing a MeetUp(meetup.com/mapstory)
Follow us @mapstory or facebook.com/mapstories
Give us your ideas by contributing to Feedback on mapstory.org, getting onGitHub, emailing [email protected]. Or just Give..ie. Donate.
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Jon Marino
Director, Content & Strategy
marino@mapstory org
