{"id":79031,"date":"2017-08-18T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/time-warped-cartograpy\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:49:26","slug":"time-warped-cartograpy","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/mapping\/time-warped-cartograpy","title":{"rendered":"Time Warped Cartograpy"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,22931,22941],"tags":[23201,26451,32331,23391,23401,27911],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-79031","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-cartographic-design","tag-cartography","tag-how-to","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-transportation","tag-tutorial","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Here is a ridiculous walking distance map of Seattle. The geography of areas accessible via a 1, 2, and 3 hour stroll are warped into con...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Here is a ridiculous walking distance map of Seattle. The geography of areas accessible via a 1, 2, and 3 hour stroll are warped into concentric rings. While it looks like an ice cream cone on a hot day, its actually a pretty practical map -if you&#8217;re a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adventuresinmapping.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/timewarpwalkabilityseattle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85469 noIMGBackground aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/TimeWarpWalkabilitySeattle_Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">What&#8217;s Real?<\/h1>\n<p>If our reality is walking, which it often is, then this is the most realistic look at Seattle going. It&#8217;s a reminder to me that all maps are a compromise between literal spatial reality, our practical spatial perceptions, and the map reader&#8217;s goals. Maps are just little communication devices, and I need to ask myself all the time, <em>what is the most important purpose of this map?<\/em> It&#8217;s always a tightrope between a sense of precision and the message that a map carries to its reader. It can be easy to fixate on the former at the expense of the latter. I like this time warp map because it&#8217;s an especially inflated example of that. Like Gallagher and a watermelon.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Where Did It Come From?<\/h1>\n<p>In 2011, in a brightly lit little office in the Geography building of Michigan State University, <a title=\"Kirk has his own Wikipedia page now?!\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirk_Goldsberry\" target=\"_blank\">Kirk Goldsberry<\/a> showed me a yellowed old draft manuscript of <a title=\"Required reading...\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waldo_R._Tobler\" target=\"_blank\">Waldo Tobler<\/a>\u2019s (covered in his hand-written notes; it was awesome) in which he\u2019d diagrammed a map of Seattle this way. I always wanted to try it but wasn\u2019t sure about how.<\/p>\n<p>At some point it occurred to me that I could hijack the georeferencing feature to warp, like a rubber sheet, totally unsuspecting isochrons into these rings. I don&#8217;t know how other people do it, but this could work for a guy like me.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">How To?<\/h1>\n<p>Like many things I make, this is the result of an absurd use of a perfectly well-meaning tool. Wait, is that true? Is that what I&#8217;m doing?<\/p>\n<p><em>Deep breath Nelson. Push that existential crisis down to your feet. Ok. Ok, we&#8217;re good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ah-hem. Pardon me. Here&#8217;s how it goes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create Walk-time service areas in ArcGIS Pro.<\/li>\n<li>Export 2 mega-huge images of the Seattle area (one with the service areas baked-in and one without).<\/li>\n<li>Create equal-distance rings roughly overtop the service areas (multiple ring buffer, matching the number of service areas).<\/li>\n<li>Add the image with the service areas as a layer.<\/li>\n<li>Using the georeference tools, warp the service areas to the equal-distance rings via a kajillion control points (spline method).<\/li>\n<li>Save the control point table and apply them to the image of Seattle without baked-in service areas. And save it as a new, time-warped image!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As always, I find that pictures help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here are three walking &#8220;service areas&#8221; from a dot I dropped downtown, created using the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/analysis\/networks\/service-area-analysis-layer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Generate Service Areas<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Isochrons.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85470 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Isochrons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1626\" height=\"890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a really big <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/get-started\/add-maps-to-a-layout.htm\" target=\"_blank\">layout<\/a>, I <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/sharing\/overview\/export-a-map-or-layout.htm#GUID-51085D47-9E4A-431A-B5C2-C1832E02A1D3\" target=\"_blank\">export<\/a> two high-res images. One image has these service areas baked into it (I&#8217;ll use it as a reference to create control points) and the other is just sweet sweet imagery (I&#8217;ll use this as the image that I ultimately georeference).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UnwarpedSeattle.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85471 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/UnwarpedSeattle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next I created three rings or equal distance around the walk origin point using the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/tool-reference\/analysis\/multiple-ring-buffer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-ring Buffer tool<\/a>. The distance was somewhat arbitrary, so long as they are all equal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SeattleIsochronesDestination.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85472 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SeattleIsochronesDestination.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"828\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I add the exported image with the service areas baked into it back into the project as a dumb, non-geographic image. Time to get warping!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/data\/imagery\/georeferencing-tools.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Georeferencing toolset<\/a> in ArcGIS Pro rules. You just set a bunch of control points connecting a pixel on the image to a real-world coordinate. Click\/clack, click\/clack, click\/clack. I chose the Spline warping method. Spline gives you an absolute pinning of control points, but you need at least 10. No problem; I ended up with\u00a0like 150 control points. <a title=\"Warp speed, ahead!\" href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/adventuresinmapping.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/07\/seattleisochronegif_small.gif\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see a fun animation of the warping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GeoreferenceRefImageTable.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85473 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GeoreferenceRefImageTable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1040\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When my service area polygons were sufficiently warped to my rings, I exported the control points table (it saves it as a .txt file with all the origin pixel coordinates and destination geographic coordinates). I don&#8217;t actually need to save a warped version with the service area lines. I want to have a warped image without those reference lines.<\/p>\n<p>So, I cancelled that geoprocessing session (since I had saved my control points table), and added in the big high res image <em>without<\/em> the service area lines. And <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> the image I ended up applying the control points to. Bait and switch. Thank you for your service, service areas \u2013we&#8217;ll take it from here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GeoreferenceTable.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85474 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/GeoreferenceTable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1040\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saved the image, all time-warped up, and took it into a new <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/get-started\/add-maps-to-a-layout.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Layout<\/a> for decoration. And that is that.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Warped Mapping! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_M_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6971,"user_firstname":"John","user_lastname":"Nelson","nickname":"John Nelson","user_nicename":"j_nelson","display_name":"John Nelson","user_email":"John_Nelson@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/www.adventuresinmapping.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:05","user_description":"I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. I also design user experiences for maps and apps.\r\nWhen I'm not doing those things, I'm chasing around toddlers and wrangling chickens, and generally getting into other ad-hoc adventures. 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