Mapping and Counter-Mapping COVID-19: From Crisis to Cartocracy

Kent, A. J.

doi:10.1080/00087041.2020.1855001

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“…This paper adds both to applied and cartographic [17,50] literature analysing COVID-19 and its spread and, more generally, to approaches in geovisualization aimed at visually analysing multivariate geospatial structure. That dastasets related to the pandemic have been shared rapidly and widely, with analysts focussed on these same data and challenges in an intense way, presents a unique opportunity for learning and transfer between research disciplines.…”

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On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases

Beecham

Dykes

Hama

et al. 2021

IJGI

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Recent analysis of area-level COVID-19 cases data attempts to grapple with a challenge familiar to geovisualization: how to capture the development of the virus, whilst supporting analysis across geographic areas? We present several glyphmap designs for addressing this challenge applied to local authority data in England whereby charts displaying multiple aspects related to the pandemic are given a geographic arrangement. These graphics are visually complex, with clutter, occlusion and salience bias an inevitable consequence. We develop a framework for describing and validating the graphics against data and design requirements. Together with an observational data analysis, this framework is used to evaluate our designs, relating them to particular data analysis needs based on the usefulness of the structure they expose. Our designs, documented in an accompanying code repository, attend to common difficulties in geovisualization design and could transfer to contexts outside of the UK and to phenomena beyond the pandemic.

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On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases

Beecham

Dykes

Hama

et al. 2021

IJGI

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“…Lo que estas limitaciones nos muestran es que el mapeo plantea cuestiones éticas y estéticas relacionadas con lo que este enseña y oculta (Kent, 2020). Para abordarlas, es necesario asumir las cartografías como una simplificación de la realidad, mientras se buscan las estrategias adecuadas que permitan reforzar el contacto con las comunidades para lograr que contribuyan a la creación de un diseño alineado con sus propias lógicas y con datos de impacto para ellas.…”

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Cartografías tecnopolíticas: propuesta para el mapeo colaborativo desde la investigación-acción participativa

Calvo

Candón-Mena²

2023

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Las cartografías digitales se han hecho populares en el ámbito del activismo digital. Para las comunidades tecnopolíticas, el mapeo constituye una innovación en los repertorios de confrontación; permite visualizar las comunidades y reforzar su identidad colectiva, establecer redes y vínculos entre ellas, o visibilizar las problemáticas que se pretenden denunciar. No obstante, las prácticas cartográficas son también una herramienta para la investigación de dichas comunidades. Para la investigación activista y otras perspectivas comprometidas, como la investigaciónacción participativa, particularmente útiles para los estudios sobre comunidades de activismo político, las cartografías realizadas de manera colaborativa tienen el potencial de geolocalizar y visibilizar los proyectos y sus posibles sinergias o generar datos para la investigación comparada e incluso el diseño de políticas públicas. Esta metodología también tiene limitaciones, dado el carácter híbrido de las comunidades tecnopolíticas y sus difusos márgenes territoriales, la dificultad de conjugar el anonimato requerido por los activistas con la visibilización de sus redes y prácticas, o cuestiones asociadas a los clásicos debates epistemológicos en torno a la dualidad entre el objeto y el sujeto de la investigación participativa. En este texto abordamos dichos debates y presentamos las fases y técnicas para la aplicación de las cartografías colaborativas al estudio del activismo digital y para la devolución de resultados a las comunidades participantes.

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“…The mapping of health information requires enormous rigor in the treatment of the data. The application of GIS to health management entails a variety of problems that must be properly addressed in order to map responsibly (Field, 2020;Juergens, 2020;Kent, 2020;Mooney & Juhász, 2020;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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“…As was the case in many other parts of the world, rapid access to digital cartography, statistical processing of data in a GIS and audiovisual processing of this information allowed the production of cartographies aimed at communicating the epidemic situation in almost real time. Given the exceptional nature of COVID-19, the use of dynamic mapping was necessary (Esri, 2020a(Esri, , 2020cKent, 2020). The following variables were used to produce these maps using data animation: number of new cases and deaths (persons affected by the virus), percentage of new cases and deaths out of the total number of health insurance cards in each area (rate x 100) and cumulative incidence level of both variables.…”

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Cartographies on COVID-19 and functional divisions of the territory: an analysis on the evolution of the pandemic based on Basic Health Areas (BHA) in Castile and Leon (Spain)

López

Luque

Arnáiz

2021

BAGE

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In the face of the confusion and uncertainty that COVID-19 has caused over the last year, Geography has proven to be a useful aid in the interpretation of the spatial dynamics that explain the transmission of the virus. Applied cartography and GIS analysis of epidemiological data have been consolidated as essential tools for interpreting the health crisis. This paper explores the usefulness of maps for the study of the evolution of the pandemic in Castile and Leon, one of the Spanish regions with the highest levels of infection and mortality. Based on the statistical variables of sick and dead people at the scale of the Basic Health Area (BHA), a first analytical approach is carried out by means of a sequence of dynamic maps during the first wave. Afterwards, a systematic study is carried out using thematic mapping for the period of the three waves, a period between March 2020 and March 2021. The analysis unravels the differential impact of the disease between rural and urban areas and reveals the problems of the mismatch between the functional divisions of the territory (BHA, as units of health analysis) and the scale of administrative management (municipalities, as the effective scale of action).

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Mapping and Counter-Mapping COVID-19: From Crisis to Cartocracy

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases

On the Use of ‘Glyphmaps’ for Analysing the Scale and Temporal Spread of COVID-19 Reported Cases

Cartografías tecnopolíticas: propuesta para el mapeo colaborativo desde la investigación-acción participativa

Cartographies on COVID-19 and functional divisions of the territory: an analysis on the evolution of the pandemic based on Basic Health Areas (BHA) in Castile and Leon (Spain)

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