Title
Cartographic Design of Cultural Maps
Abstract
Throughout history, maps have been used as a tool to explore cities. They visualize a city's urban fabric through its streets, buildings, and points of interest. Besides purely navigation purposes, street names also reflect a city's culture through its commemorative practices. Therefore, cultural maps that unveil socio-cultural characteristics encoded in street names could potentially raise citizens' historical awareness. But designing effective cultural maps is challenging, not only due to data scarcity but also due to the lack of effective approaches to engage citizens with data exploration. To address these challenges, we collected a dataset of 5000 streets across the cities of Paris, Vienna, London, and New York, and built their cultural maps grounded on cartographic storytelling techniques. Through data exploration scenarios, we demonstrated how cultural maps engage users and allow them to discover distinct patterns in the ways these cities are gender-biased, celebrate various professions, and embrace foreign cultures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/MCG.2020.3026596
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
H.2.8.c Data and knowledge visualization,O.6.1 Methods of data collection,I.2.1.a Cartography
Journal
40
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0272-1716
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edyta P. Bogucka121.46
Marios Constantinides284.02
Luca Maria Aiello300.34
Daniele Quercia41618103.55
Wonyoung So500.68
Melanie Bancilhon601.01