Presentation made at School of Architecture, RV College of Engineering, Bangalore. The talk focused on military, maritime and administrative embeddings of analog as well as digital mapping techniques; on neogeography, subjectivity and power in maps, and possibilities of counter mapping.

1. Mapping the City
Counter Mapping and Critical Geography
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
ajantriks.net

2. Kote, 1792

3. Kote, 1791

4. The World on Mercator’s Projection, W.G. Blackie, 1860

5. Serio-Comic War Map, Fred W. Rose, 1877

6. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, John Bull and his Friends, 1900

7. Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, Kisaburo Ohara, 1904

8. The Prussian Octopus, 1915

10. Russia in 2008, Graeme Mackay, 2008

14. Rose Diagram, Florence Nightingale, 1858

15. Cholera Map by John Snow, 1854

16. Napoleon’s March by C.J. Minard, 1861

17. Internal Migration in USA by Jon Bruner, 2011

18. David McCandless, 2009

19. Africa Map by Kai Krause, 2010

20. The Economist, 2011

21. World Economy Cartogram, UNEP, 2000

22. Road Network, BBMP

23. Water Bodies, Greater Bangalore

24. Gorakhpur, Municipality GIS

25. Google Maps

26. Google Earth

27. London Bike Share Map, Oliver O’brien

28. Local Vs. Tourists, New York, Eric Fischer, 2010

29. Local Vs. Tourists, Tokyo, Eric Fischer, 2010

30. Live Singapore! by MIT SENSEable City Lab, 2011

31. openstreetmap.org

32. Humanitarian OSM

33. Humanitarian OSM

34. Ushahidi

35. MapKibera

36. Kibera on Google Maps

37. Guide Pychogéographique de Paris, Guy Debord, 1957

38. London Map, Stephen Walter

39. London Map, Stephen Walter

40. iSEE, Institute for Applied Autonomy

41. Greenwich Emotion Map, Christian Nold

42. Greenwich Emotion Map, Christian Nold

43. Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities

44. Opportunities:
[1] Aggregation
[2] Spatial ordering
[3] Comparison
[4] Pattern discovery

45. Opportunities:
[1] Aggregation
[2] Spatial ordering
[3] Comparison
[4] Pattern discovery

46. Opportunities:
[1] Aggregation
[2] Spatial ordering
[3] Comparison
[4] Pattern discovery

47. Opportunities:
[1] Aggregation
[2] Spatial ordering
[3] Comparison
[4] Pattern discovery

48. Reminders:
[1] Map as worldview
[2] Map as proposition
[3] Mapping ≠ mapmaking
[4] Royal and nomadic maps

49. Reminders:
[1] Map as worldview
[2] Map as proposition
[3] Mapping ≠ mapmaking
[4] Royal and nomadic maps

50. Reminders:
[1] Map as worldview
[2] Map as proposition
[3] Mapping ≠ mapmaking
[4] Royal and nomadic maps

51. Reminders:
[1] Map as worldview
[2] Map as proposition
[3] Mapping ≠ mapmaking
[4] Royal and nomadic maps

52. “
In the last few years cartography has been slipping from
the control of the powerful elites that have exercised
dominance over it for several hundred years. These elites —
the great map houses of the west, the state, and to a lesser
extent academics — have been challenged by two
important developments. First, the actual business of
mapmaking, of collecting spatial data and mapping it out,
is passing out of the hands of the experts. The ability to
make a map, even a stunning interactive 3D map, is
now available to anyone with a home computer and
an internet connection.
‘An introduction to Critical Cartography’
Jeremy Crampton & John Krygier

53. “
[Continued] Cartography’s latest “technological transition”
is not so much a question of new mapping software but a
mixture of “open source” collaborative tools, mobile mapping
applications, and geotagging. While this trend has been
apparent to industry insiders for some time, a more social
theoretic critique, which we argue is a political one, situates
maps within specific relations of power and not as neutral
scientific documents. One might expect a critique of the
politics of mapping to weaken the power of the map and to
work against a transition [towards] putting maps into more
people’s hands. But just the opposite has happened. If the
map is a specific set of power-knowledge claims, then
not only the state but others could make competing and
equally powerful claims.
‘An introduction to Critical Cartography’
Jeremy Crampton & John Krygier

54. Courtesy:
Al Jazeera, BBMP, Cedar Grove Institute for
Sustainable Communities, Christian Nold,
Eric Fischer, Foreign Policy, Global Security,
Google Maps and Earth, India Urban Portal,
Indian Institute of Science, InformationIsBeautiful.net,
Institute for Applied Autonomy, Jon Bruner / Forbes,
Kai Krause, MapKibera, miklianmaps.com,
MIT SENSEable City Lab, Oliver O’Brien,
OpenStreetMap.org, Stephen Walter, Strange Maps,
The Economist, UC Santa Barbara, UNEP, Ushahidi,
WikiMedia Commons.
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
ajantriks.net