Locating London\u2019s Past<\/a> map. London is one of those cities that is constantly expanding due to is metropolitan focus but also tourist attractiveness. In addition, London is a lot bigger than just the main part of the city. There is outer London which describes the general outskirts of London and inner London, or the London proper that we know of today. I was interested to see how mappers considered London in the past and how it has changed over time. I anticipate that perspectives will mainly be from a position of white elite because that was who had the most power.<\/p>\nThe website contains 3 main maps. The first one is John Rocque\u2019s 1746 map and then the user has an option to go to an Ordinance Survey map from 1869-1880 and then finally a google map layout from the present. While the main layout is overall the same such as the River Thames and various districts, it is clear that the city is expanding and becoming more metropolitan over time, reflective of the Industrial Revolution occurring in Europe.<\/p>\n
Rocque\u2019s map is clearly made for people who already are generally familiar with the structure of London, perhaps businessmen and government officials. This is because it seems to leave out a lot of information. Businessmen and government officials alike would not necessarily need to read information they already knew. It was not until the map was geo-referenced that it had muchwriting.<\/p>\n
The Ordinance Survey map plays more of an active role to those trying to use it. It clearly labels streets, areas and bodies of water along with a lot more detail in every neighborhood. The Ordinance Survey is a national mapping agency in Great Britain so any map delivered by them is bound to have a certain purpose for the general public looking at it, specifically urban planners with a direct intent to use it to help inform their decisions. However, because it is such a big agency, it fails to include information on smaller scaled businesses. It only seems to include information on the bigger and more powerful corporations, also something reflective of the scope of the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n
While these maps become richer in detail over time, it is clear that there is more of a focus to the educated and powerful elite because it only contains information relevant to them such as large businesses, banks, and churches and neglects information pertaining to a lower class such as small shops and bakeries.<\/p>\n
If I were to create a map, I would make sure to include and emphasize the smaller and less powerful locations within the map. This would be done through a digital, interactive map showing change over time. When a user scrolls his mouse over a certain area, an animation showing the development over time of that specific area (multiple maps) would pop up along with its brief history. Users have the option to view the full map in its entirety also can focalize on more places more intimately to learn about more narratives than just the narratives of the powerful elite. This would create focalization in certain areas so that more narratives are shown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As someone who loves London, the Royal Family, and all of its history, I was naturally drawn to learn more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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