{"id":873,"date":"2013-02-10T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=873"},"modified":"2013-02-10T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:01:52","slug":"better-at-telling-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Better at Telling Stories?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Final thoughts, inspired by the Geodesign summit 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=867\">This is part 1 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-917\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=917\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-917\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-917\" alt=\"not_now_bernard\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/not_now_bernard.jpg?resize=179%2C300\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/not_now_bernard.jpg?resize=179%2C300&amp;ssl=1 179w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/not_now_bernard.jpg?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not now&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Let&#8217;s get this out of the way straight away <strong>I think I hate the idea of story maps<\/strong>, for someone who has made a career out of using and creating maps I have to say I&#8217;m uncomfortable about this.\u00a0 Stories are what I read to my children, maps should be (in my head at any rate) representations of a fact, either observational or analytical.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, I know there is some overlap, I like some of the fictional maps associated with Lord of the Rings.\u00a0\u00a0 But when we talk about using maps to tell stories it makes me <em>squirm<\/em> because I fear that we are in danger of \u00a0trivialising and dumbing down often very important information.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>If it&#8217;s just a story how do we take it seriously?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Putting aside my fear of stories and maps and the jealously\u00a0guarding of my skill set , perhaps, on reflection <em>there is mileage in this idea of telling stories<\/em> rather than presenting information as cold analytical facts.\u00a0\u00a0 If we are to get action on a global level to global issues, messages from the planet (climate change, pollution etc..) must be communicated to as wider range of people with as diverse a background as possible.\u00a0\u00a0<em> Without the backing and understanding of a majority how are our politicians meant to act?<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 This of course puts the map\/story maker in a very difficult position, a convincing story on unconvincing data can be problematic at best.\u00a0\u00a0 But it was forever thus.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lazy is smart? (phew I must be very smart)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=878\">Next 2 Lazy is smart?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 1 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here. Let&#8217;s get this out of the way straight away I think I hate the idea of story maps, for someone who has made a career out of using and creating maps I have to say I&#8217;m uncomfortable about this.\u00a0 Stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146,64,156,225,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conference","category-esri","category-geodesign","category-story","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}