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Water moves in predictable ways across undulating landscapes, but it can be hard to appreciate from a human perspective on the ground. It’s much easier to understand when you’re essentially a giant hovering over the land with the ability to move mountains and make rain.
Found at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/make-topographical-maps-in-a-sandbox
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Before there were the continents, there was Pangea. Two hundred million years ago, the enormous land mass began to break apart and we’ve been separated ever since — but a map tool can help you find where a given town would have been on the supercontinent.
Found at https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/17/17467686/map-pangea-earth-antipodes-science-history-tools
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The first modern atlas was created in the late 16th century, and was called Theater of the World. It included more than 50 pages of maps of places around the world, which Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius likened to a stage where human life played out
Found at https://www.citylab.com/design/2016/09/mapping-how-shakespeare-saw-the-world/500786/
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The first “schoolgirl map” that caught historian Susan Schulten’s attention was made in 1823 by Frances Henshaw, a student at one of the best schools for girls in the young United States.
Found at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/early-american-schoolgirl-maps
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How the U.S. Maps the World’s Most Disputed Territories When the United States decides to recognize a new government, or an existing country changes its name, Leo Dillon and his team at the State Department spring into action.
Found at https://www.wired.com/2014/01/state-department-maps/?cid=co17535794
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This is a map of the online world. Each country is resized for the popularity of its domain name. Lots of weird stuff going on, but the eye is immediately drawn to the map's greatest anomaly: Tokelau. That Pacific island nation is the online world's only true superpower.
Found at https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/tokelau-the-worlds-online-superpower
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This vintage-style map of the USA puts the titles of songs that mention place names onto their corresponding geographical spot. So, for example, the Beasties Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" is placed right on top of Brooklyn.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/11/10/a-cool-retro-map-of-usa-song-t.html
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Wow, almost four years later and this thing just exploded. ... To anyone asking for permission to use this for their own campaigns...
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/10/17/every-fantasy-map.html
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Most of the time, The New York Times asks you to read something. Today we are inviting you, simply, to look. On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States.
Found at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/12/us/map-of-every-building-in-the-united-states.html
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The Medieval Fantasy City Generator; fill in a few options and press go, and voila! I have no idea how plausible these are, but they're MUCH better than anything I ever came up with as a Dungeon Master.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/09/10/heroic-cartography.html
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Orange Peel Map of Japan #map #maps
Found at https://twitter.com/onlmaps/status/1030814088564068352
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The Ancient Earth Globe is an interactive 3D globe that depics the Earth at various points in geological history from 750m years ago until now. Here it is 300m years ago. Late Carboniferous. Plants developed root systems that allowed them to grow larger and move inland.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/08/06/ancient-earth-globe-see-what.html
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Antipodr is a nifty little site that lets visitors learn what's on the opposite side of the globe from any coordinate. For instance, Auckland, New Zealand is directly opposite Venta de Leche in southern Spain. Honolulu, Hawai'i is directly opposite Dekar in Botswana.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/08/06/find-the-other-side-of-the-wor.html
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The East Cut is a neighborhood in San Francisco invented by a branding agency. Such things usually wither on the local-business bullshit vine, but thanks to Google Maps, it's now the plain reality of that part of town.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/08/02/if-google-maps-says-a-place-ha.html
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In southern Wales’ Vale of Glamorgan, archaeologists flying over a prehistoric settlement they had previously studied got a surprise: the ghostly outline of a Roman villa on the ground inside the older settlement’s boundaries.
Found at https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/climate-change-brings-the-uks-hidden-past-to-the-surface/
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Bloomberg has an interactive report that shows how America uses its land for different purposes. I was surprised by how much land is dedicated to livestock pasture: 41%. Also the 100 largest landowning families own land equal to the size of Florida.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/08/01/fascinating-look-at-how-americ.html
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Composed from 13 years of Cassini probe mission data, NASA's infrared-based map of Titan shows off one of the solar system's most promising worlds.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/nasas-infrared-map-of-titan.html
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When does drawing a digital line on a satellite map cross an ethereal threshold into the centuries-old practice of licensed land surveying? This is the existential question now before a Mississippi state court.
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Dutch pastry/dessert chef Daniel Jongsma created this beautiful confection that looks like earth, replete with continents and clouds. Day 5 of the #7dayschallenge where i was invited by @robin_hoedjes here's to share my showpiece during the dutch chocolate masters in 2010.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/07/02/check-out-these-gorgeous-edibl.html
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When a river changes course on its flood plain, it can leave an entire bend of the river cut off from the new flow, forming an oxbow lake. Seen in bright blue in this shot of the Songhua River in northeast China, they are usually narrow crescents.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/06/26/cool-satellite-view-of-dozens.html
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When you take a photo from an airplane, the last thing you'd expect is for a complete and utter stranger to draw a load of squiggly lines over it. But, then again, the internet never fails to defy our expectations.
Found at https://mashable.com/2018/06/26/aerial-photo-london-tube/
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You've likely seen maps of the earth with land and sea inverted, where Asia becomes the world's greatest ocean and the Pacific a vast, sprawling continent. But high school geography teacher John M Adams took it a step further and explained what it would be like to live in this parallel world.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/what-the-world-would-be-like-i.html
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The small but bright fissure at the left edge of Kilauea's lava field can already be seen from space via infrared imaging, but it's dwarfed by the magnitude of previously existing flows.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/06/04/kilaueas-new-lava-flow-can-b.html
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jamaps created a map that shows all the main roads in Britain and nothing else, giving the vague impression of something weirdly biological.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/05/30/map-of-britains-roads-and.html
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New Zealand is continually omitted from maps of the world. Seriously, there's an entire Reddit thread highlighting examples of the country being completely wiped from global existence.
Found at https://mashable.com/2018/05/01/get-new-zealand-on-the-map/
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new map of Great Britain." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1736. https://ift.tt/2HTr3Yo
Found at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5230-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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Nowadays most of us resort to our smartphones and Google Maps to help navigate us around unfamiliar places. But things were a little different for some of the world’s first explorers who used printed maps and atlases to guide them.
Found at https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/a20115850/sothebys-auction-ancient-maps/
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Title A geographically correct map of the state of Texas Additional title: Texas, the empire state of the great southwest Names Texas & Pacific Railway (Publisher) Collection Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1876 (Inferred) Place: Marshall, TX Publisher: Texas and Pacific Railway Company Library loc
Found at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7c49dc40-d2fe-0135-b8cb-45b777ad6911
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There's 142 Switzerlands there, since no one put the number in the comments. And, since Switzerland's area is 41,285 km 2 and Brazil's 8,515,767 km2, it's actually a little over 206 times larger.
Found at https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8ee90c/how_many_switzerlands_fits_in_brazil_1100x1100/
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Late last year, Maarten Inghels of Antwerp, Belgium, was reading the paper when a news story caught his attention. Yet another camera system was about to be installed in the city, he read. Not only that, this particular system was smart, an active rather than passive watcher.
Found at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antwerp-invisible-route-map-surveillance-cameras
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Outside the big cities, England and Wales is aging. From Plumplot: In 2002, 40% of the population was over 44 years old. Fourteen years later it was 43.5%. The share almost equaled to the population below 35, which was 43.7%. Life expectancy also increased.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/04/16/map-of-how-england-and-wales-i.html
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With five cities in the top 20 of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual global liveability survey, Australia boasts some of the most attractive urban environments in the world.
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As you know, Eastern Finland has a lot of forests.
Found at https://worstofosm.tumblr.com/?og=1
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Fictional worlds such as Narnia, Gotham City and Neverland have mysteriously appeared on road signs in Oxfordshire. The roundabout signs in Didcot - described as England's most normal town - also direct drivers to Middle Earth and Emerald City.
Found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-43459598
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A couple of days ago, one of my favorite cartographers, Esri’s John Nelson declared his love for dot density maps. I like dot density maps too, but never really thought through why.
Found at https://www.maartenlambrechts.com/2018/02/13/one-person-one-dot-maps-and-how-to-make-them.html
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A recent aerial survey revealed thousands of ancient Maya structures previously hidden beneath the dense Guatemalan jungle, including houses, irrigation canals, fortifications, and even a pyramid.
Found at https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/lasers-shed-some-light-on-the-maya-snake-kingdom/
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are iconic fantasy adventures, and readers return to them time and again because of the rich detail that defines the world.
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It shows the sheer scale of the infrastructure which keeps the internet running. It's built up over decades, mainly as a result of private enterprise rather than coordinated state infrastructure projects, like road or water networks.
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Save this picture! Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century.
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How do you map the hunt for a fictional creature in a nonsensical poem? If you’re Lewis Carroll, author of The Hunting of the Snark and, of course, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, you create a map devoid of meaning: just white space, a few notations, and the points of the compass.
Found at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mapping-literary-worlds
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Cottereau: This video shows the borders and populations of each country in Europe, for every year since 400 BC. Vassal states and colonies are not included in the count of a country's population." What a mess! One thing I learned is how sparsely-populated Britain was in the Roman age.
Found at https://boingboing.net/2018/01/30/european-history-and-populatio.html
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state’s US House maps were based on a Republican partisan gerrymander that violated the state’s constitution — and struck them down.
Found at https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16920636/pennsylvania-gerrymander-ruling-house
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One of my favorite illustrators is eBoy (a collective of people from Germany and LA). They designed our Jackhammer Jill logo and did a cool Boing Boing shirt many years ago (I don't think it's available any longer).
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Starting with London’s Tube, a new series aims to capture the art and history of rapid transit systems around the world. Blue Crow Media, an independent map publisher, recently released their first in a series of public transit maps: a double-sided, cartographic guide of the London Tube.
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In 1663, Europeans called Australia ‘New Holland’, New Zealand was considered one land mass and Tasmania had only been sighted by Abel Tasman – it would be another hundred years before Europeans would set foot there.
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As most New Yorkers know, the five boroughs are filled with impressive architecture, but few have paid particular attention to the material used to create it.
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Not a day goes by that I don’t use Google Maps for something or other, whether it’s basic navigation, researching an address, or finding a dry cleaner. Though some of us might resent the dominance such mapping technology has over our daily interactions, there’s no denying its endless utility.
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The EarthWindMap not only animates our homeworld's air currents, but you can drag, zoom and warp the view to create unique projections of its surface.
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New Zealanders fed up with their country being left off of world maps set up a Reddit group to share their exasperation. The 27,000 subscribers of "Maps Without NZ" post pictures of the world with the island nation left off.
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Although it resembles nothing like the clear outline of a modern map of the region, the Peutinger Table is a snapshot of how Romans viewed their world, one in which they were at the center.
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A few years ago, the climate adaptation researcher Ben Smith—then a Ph.D. student at Kings College London—was working on his dissertation, about the effectiveness of water restoration projects in the United Kingdom.
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Forty airports including San Francisco and San Jose are included on the map of delays updated by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center. The status indicates general airport conditions, usually as affected by weather, rather than individual flights.
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A lot of people have problems with the Mercator map of the world. Fortunately, The True Size is set up to help cartography fans see how much it distorts land mass by allowing users to move outlines of nations across the 2-D images. It is oddly addictive.
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According to medieval mapmakers, the world was made up of three continents ringed by narrow bodies of water. When the voyages of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan uncovered continents previously unknown to Europeans, this posed a major problem for those cartographers.
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In 1976, Saul Steinberg drew View of the World from 9th Avenue, an illustration that became perhaps the most famous magazine cover in the history of The New Yorker.
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A great old map of transit from Salt Lake City, showing bus lines (in green), trolleybus lines (in red, and curiously referred to as “electric coaches”, a designation that only seems to have been used here), and the one last remaining streetcar line (in blue).
Found at https://ift.tt/2zWMSmy
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Last week, scientists released a monumental interactive catalog that tracks 94 ancient tectonic plates lurking deep within Earth’s mantle, a resource they’re calling an “Atlas of the Underworld.
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Hundreds of mysterious structures have been discovered on ancient lava domes in Saudi Arabia by an archaeologist using Google Earth. But the structures found by Mr Kennedy are unlike any before them.
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They’re fantastical, fierce and sometimes even frightening, and talking about them will capture the attention of just about any crowd. So says Chet Van Duzer of something that used to regularly adorn maps during the Middle Ages and Renaissance: sea monsters.
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America votes Democrat but elects Republicans, and it's all thanks to how the country is divided up. Even if gerrymandering dies in court, Americans must still live with the the plain fact that every state gets the same number of senators. But what if things were different?
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After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousand of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by Soviet cartographers, and annotated — often in exacting detail — using Cyrillic script.
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Maps convey simple historical narratives very clearly–but how useful are simple stories about the past? Many history textbooks and studies of the Reformation include some sort of map that claims to depict Europe’s religious divisions in the sixteenth century.
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The layout of London can only be fully understood if we examine it in three dimensions. Tim Dunn takes a look at some of the capital's greatest cutaway diagrams. Our city is a fascinating, infuriating, terrifying, beautiful place.
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"What about an Independent Northern Ireland" - since it was a higher figure, I used support for a United Ireland. But otherwise if anyone is curious support for an independent Northern Ireland is around 5-7%.
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Amidst the abundant data collected during the years, researchers around the world came across to specific revelations. Some of these revelations are at variance with the beliefs set by prevailing intellectuals about the human race.
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What's different about the Time Map system is that it worries about time first, and specific directions second. (Photo: MapBox) Let's say you're visiting an unfamiliar city for the first time, just dropped off your stuff at the hotel, and are eager to grab something to eat before meeting a friend.
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When Edward Snowden blew the lid off of the NSA’s mass surveillance program, he also revealed the extent of the government’s smartphone location tracking records.
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Almost a hundred years before satellite-based mapping made information available to people at their fingertips, a municipal survey done in Kolkata by British surveyors documented not only streets, houses, landmarks and water bodies but also trees, telegraph and telephone posts, urinals
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Location platform Here Technologies calculated how far one hour of driving can take drivers out of major American cities starting on Friday at 4, 7, and 10 pm. The worst of the worst is Boston. Via WaPo:
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There has been a resurgence of interest in data visualizations inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. These so-called “Joy Plots” are easier to create thanks to the development of the “ggjoy” R package and also some nice code posted using D3.
Found at https://spatial.ly/2017/07/joy-division-population-surfaces-and-pioneering-electronic-cartography/
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Population of USA fitted in EU. Ever get into a heated debate about the border that separates Echo Park and Silver Lake? Well that's old hat, and nothing compared to what Eric …
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This animated map created from the NOAA, NWS, and PTWC shows every recorded earthquake in chronological order from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the earthquakes in relation to each other. The color represents the earthquake depth.
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There’s something exciting about being at a special geographic spot, like the exact center of a continent or a point along an imaginary line like the equator. Throughout the globe, monuments and signs are installed to define these geographically significant locations.
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There’s something exciting about being at a special geographic spot, like the exact center of a continent or a point along an imaginary line like the equator. Throughout the globe, monuments and signs are installed to define these geographically significant locations.
Found at https://ift.tt/2uUSQVc
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We have noticed that you are using an ad blocker. Free access to Standard.co.uk’s comprehensive package of news, sport and entertainment relies on advertising revenue. This allows us to invest in the best writers, pictures and videos.
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The official London Underground map is an essential part of living in the capital, but several alternatives have been released in a bid to make commuters' lives easier. Published by Transport for London over the years, they are aimed at the entire cross-section of people who use the Tube.
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Few people in the world know their way around a map like John Hessler does. The Library of Congress’s “Specialist in Modern Cartography and Geographic Information Science” can look at a Renaissance, bit matrix, or Minecraft map and explain what each signifies and how they all relate.
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Few people in the world know their way around a map like John Hessler does. The Library of Congress’s “Specialist in Modern Cartography and Geographic Information Science” can look at a Renaissance, bit matrix, or Minecraft map and explain what each signifies and how they all relate.
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On Sunday, NASA's Earth-monitoring Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume from the brutal Alamo Fire blazing in the County of Santa Barbara, California.
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If you get anxiety or claustrophobia, there’s a new Tube map to make it easier for you to get around London. TfL just released a new map which shows which lines go into tunnels, when, and for how long, in a bid to make it easier for people to travel.
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I was playing around with map projections one day and became a tad smitten with Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” Projection. It’s able to unwrap a spherical map of the Earth onto a flat plane with surprisingly little distortion.
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Justin O'Beirne of San Francisco, California. Essays, projects, and contact information. Coincidence or not, it was interesting. And it made me wonder what else would change, if we kept watching. Would Google keep adding detail? And would Apple, like Google, also start making changes?
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This novel mapping technique developed by Yasamin Mostofi allows two drones to map the interior of an unknown building by using wifi signals and some impressive number-crunching. More details about how it works here.
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If you think this would make a cool poster, follow this link to send me a few bucks. I’ll email you a crisp PDF for printing! It’s finally done. A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.
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Here are the "some sheep", and here are the "no sheep" — but where is the green sheep? The national library's Trove digital service has been highlighting quirky old maps of the continent, starting with a 1920s graphic dividing the country up into the sheep haves and have-nots.
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Designing a public transit map can be a complicated process, taking months if not years to create a concise layout that can be interpreted quickly for commuters on the go.
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On September 23rd, 1953, Walt Disney called up his friend, the painter and art director Herb Ryman, and asked him to come down to his studio. “I’m going to do an amusement park,” Disney said when Ryman arrived.
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e North Korea is are more like to favor diplomacy over war in dealing with its regime. Unfortunately, few Americans know where North Korea is.
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le looked out around them, they couldn’t imagine how far the scope of the world extended beyond what stretched out before their own eyes. Their world was the land that surrounded and fed them, and as far as they knew, it extended no further.
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was carved by ancient peoples to map the area of the upper Snake River, possibly as long as 12,000 years ago. The map is believed to have been carved by the Shoshone-Bannock natives long before European contact.
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ty run-of-the-mill job these days—Google alone has scanned over 25 million titles. But some books need special treatment to make it into the digital world, and the Klencke Atlas held at the British Library took a lot of extra effort, Allison Meier at Hyperallergic reports.
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Footnote #3 on p. 331 of Curiocity goes as follows: “There is only one Tube station that share no letters with the word 'mackerel'. It is mentioned on p. 297”. Try to find that nugget of trivia in any other London guidebook.
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MapSCII turns vectors into text-mode maps using the Braille ASCII character set. You can check out examples at ASCII Cinema, which provides animated embeds comprising of actual text! You can select, copy and paste the ASCII from it while it animates!
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One of the weirdest places in Antarctica is Blood Falls, a five-story cascade of blood-red liquid pouring from Taylor Glacier. Researchers finally traced its source: a saltwater lake millions of years old trapped under the glacier.
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The Inuit carve portable, waterproof, floating maps out of driftwood for use in navigating the littoral. From The Decolonial Atlas, an antidote to all the other ones: Kurdistan in Kurdish, Lakota Territory, Agricultural Maps.
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Or, your maps are lying to you but so would any other map. Your maps are lying to you! They are WRONG! Everything you learned is wrong! They are instruments of imperial oppressors! All because of the “monstrosity” of a map projection, the Mercator projection.
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Many of London's streets are highly polluted and this harmful air is said to contribute to thousands of deaths each year. At the heart of the problem is the vast range of vehicles on the capital's roads.
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A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which cut the developed world down to size A district will drop the Mercator projection, which physically diminished Africa and South America, for the Peters, which
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Legendary’s upcoming monster movie Kong: Skull Island hits theaters next week, and Google is having a bit of fun with it by plotting the film’s titular location on Google Maps. You can find the island on Google Maps, just south of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.
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One of the most common maps of the world is in fact, one of the most misleading. The problem is that the size of countries and continents have been either exaggerated or downplayed.
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Transport for London has released another alternative version of the Tube map—and it’s actually really useful. The London transport manager has created a ‘Walk the Tube’ map, which shows how long it takes to totter between stations. The full-sized version is here.
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How do you create a map showing every road in the United States, with the precise location of every stop sign, all the lane markings, every exit ramp and every traffic light — and update it in real time as traffic is rerouted around construction and accidents?
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More than 40 different map dealers from across the globe came to Miami recently to display their antique maps, charts, town plans and atlases.
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Not so very long ago, no paddler or hillwalker would head out the door without tucking a topographic map into his (or her) pack. But that was then. Today, even supposedly expert trekkers attempt winter ascents above treeline with no other navigational aid than a cell phone.
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So many of the cartographers I’ve gotten to know while writing about maps seem to genuinely love their jobs. It’s one of those professions with a disproportionate number of people who are really happy to be there.
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SA Metro is a set of keys for mechanical keyboards that form colored subway lines in the classic style of the London Underground map. Three editions are planned, covering staggered, gridded and ergonomic keyboard layouts; to be absolutely clear, it lacks standard legends.
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Thirty years ago, a company called Etak released the first commercially available computerized navigation system for automobiles.
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Artist Matthew Rangel hikes through what looks like some of the most beautiful terrain in the world and makes these cartographic drawings based on his experiences. Lovely work. (via @djacobs)
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At The Awl, Victoria Johnson fondly remembers the books of her youth that contained extra material. Like maps. If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain as much supplementary information as possible. Nonfiction, fiction — doesn’t matter.
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Martin O’Leary is a research scientist who studies glaciers, but in his spare time, he built Uncharted Atlas, a program that auto-generates maps of fantasy lands (like from Game of Thrones or LOTR) and posts them to a Twitter account.
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Elenco's Night 'n Day Mechanical Globe uses a system of translucent, exposed gears to rotate an internally illuminated globe that displays the seasonally adjusted, real-time night/day terminator as it spins.
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