Presentation delivered to Denver Petroleum Users Group on November 10, 2011 by Brian Timoney and Chris Rice. Highlighting the new possibilities for creating great, customized basemaps for Oil & Gas projects and delivering them over the web especially to mobile devices such as iPad. Also a plea for less ugly maps in an industry that seems too attached to fully saturated yellows, greens, and reds: go more subtle with the help of ColorBrewer.

1. DENVER PETROLEUM USERS GROUP November 10, 2011 Brian Timoney The Timoney Group Chris Rice Colorado Cartographics The New Golden Age of Cartography (and the implications for Oil & Gas)

3. First Golden Age: Dutch, and male

4. Global basemaps; custom overlays

5. Too much of a good thing

6. GIS on the web has been a failure

7. We in GIS may be slow to embrace the New Golden Age of Cartography due to the failures of “web GIS” a. Huge technology footprint (“server” management anyone?) b. Dominant visual metaphor was desktop GIS, which befuddles non-GIS users c. Too complex (and often slow) for casual use d. Let’s be blunt— after 10 years of web GIS and upper-level executives still prefer screen-captures in PowerPoint <fail> NOTES

8. Cartography as Information Visualization

9. New Golden Age Cartography Example: Map of Facebook friend connections (no other basemap data was used, just geocoded Facebook user locations) 2 salient facts— a) creator has no formal GIS training b) map wasn’t created by standard GIS software but by the open-source statistical software “R” NOTES

10. In Oil & Gas, the paper map remains the dominant form of cartographic communication (by far…)

11. Insert joke about conference attendees swarming the Wood MacKenzie booth for free maps. In Oil & Gas, maps are both visual information and interior decorating. NOTES

13. The New Golden Age of Cartography is about bringing design back to the forefront. Web mapping without GIS… NOTES

14. TileMill by MapBox

15. Project Interface

18. Function & Form

19. The tablet, or more specifically the iPad represents a fresh opportunity for web GIS in the Oil & Gas industry, especially in reaching upper management who has neither time nor inclination to deal with the typical over-busy web mapping interface NOTES

20. Anytime, Anywhere, No Restrictions

21. A couple of options for mobile 1. New OpenLayers api with mobile touch support 2. Leaflet.js a new free API with mobile support 3. DevelopmentSeed’s MapBox app NOTES

22. License free basemap data

23. Where to get license-free basemap data? Open Street Map **Many commercial providers don’t allow the downloading of basemap tiles for offline use NOTES

24. Quick Shaded Relief/OSM Tiles Maperitive

25. Maperitive— Very handy Windows freeware to generating Open Street Map tiles + elevation contours + hillshading NOTES

27. If ArcMap is where you do all of your cartography, Arc2Earth is a great extension that enables export to all sorts of web-friendly formats including MBTiles. NOTES

28. Beware the frustration of different tiling schemes

29. Oil & Gas industry makes too many ugly maps

30. Combat the Ugly in your everyday maps— get smarter about color De-saturate your yellows, reds, & greens using ColorBrewer as a guide NOTES

31. Choose better color schemes with ColorBrewer.org

32. Contacts: Brian Timoney [email_address] Twitter: @briantimoney Chris Rice [email_address] Twitter: @colocarto NOTES