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To explore the origins, view the state of the art, and guess at the future of the common (and uncommon) map.
- Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage Meet Scheduled for Barcelona
- Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
- Blog Of Interest: Show Off Your Maps!
- Site To See: Historic City Maps
- Ork Posters – Neighborhoods As Typographic Art
- Google Street View Gallery Open To All
- How To Make A Flat Earth Globe
- Te Taki o Autahi-International Conference Slated for Feb 2008
Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
by Samuel John Klein
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BOOK REVIEW: Map Scripting 101
This book illuminates one of the most powerful tools the World Wide Web has given us in the last five years. I can't think of a better resource for map scripting and development than this book.
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REVIEW: Acrobat 9 Pro Extended And The Power of Flash
I'm reviewing Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, the most advanced member of the Acrobat 9 family. This application takes the new integration of PDF and Flash to a new level and gives you two applications in one with Adobe Presenter 7.
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Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage Meet Scheduled for Barcelona
Free conference scheduled for June 2008 in Barcelona.
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Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
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Blog Of Interest: Show Off Your Maps!
Just noted today: an adventurous map blogger makes the following bold statement:
For a while now, we’ve thought to ourselves: wouldn’t it be great if there was some place on the web where map collectors could get together to compare their collections and discuss map collecting? We decided to stop thinking and start doing! Show Off Your Maps is a website by map collectors, for map collectors. We’re here to give collectors everywhere a place to discuss the wonderful world of antique maps and to show off what they’ve got. There’s only one rule: have fun!
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- Site To See: Historic City Maps
Jerusalem-based academic community digitizes, displays for all historic city maps from around Europe and the world.
- Ork Posters – Neighborhoods As Typographic Art
Simple typographic artistic neighborhood posters entertain the eye and the mind.
- Google Street View Gallery Open To All
A bunch of people have found and posted the interesting stuff, so you don't have to.
It exists, and you can do it yourself!
- Te Taki o Autahi-International Conference Slated for Feb 2008
Sited for Wellington, New Zealand, conference promises speakers and activities; call for papers; scenic tours available
- New York Stories: Field Checking the Cushman & Wakefield Map
We're more technological than ever, but sometimes you have to go into the mean streets to check it out...
Author's blog has ideas and resources for making one's own maps
- Upcoming Books on the Waldseemüller Map
Two upcoming volumes promise to open up “America’s Birth Certificate” to a mass audience
The Waldseemüller Map, a world map drawn and first published in 1507, is the map credited with not merely integrating into the cartographic knowledge store the continents at the western edge of the Atlantic Ocean but dubbing them with the name we use today for them: “America”. Two upcoming books aim to explore Waldseemüller even more deeply, coincident to the U.S. Library of Congress’s acquisition of the world-famous map.
Peabody Room Collection Originally Feared Lost
On 1 May 2007, library fans everywhere and United States historians in particular were shocked and saddened to hear that the Georgetown Branch of the Washington DC Public Library system, located at Wisconsin Avenue and R Street NW, suffered a catastrophic fire that destroyed much of the building. The branch was, at the time, closed for renovations.
Read more on Important Historical Maps Narrowly Escape Destruction In DC Library Fire…
- New DC Taxi Zone Map Clarifies Transportation
As part of a District initiative the well-known taxi zone map is redesigned for improved clarity and communication
Traveling by taxi in Washington, DC is different from just about any major city one might know.
- Found Item: The Stuckenberg Digital Map Collection at Gettysburg College
Free digital collection showcases antique map images from noted late-19th C. scholar
John H.W. Stuckenberg was a scholar and theologian (and even an American Civil War solider) who split his life between pursuits academic and spiritual, and between America and Germany. From his bio at the online Stuckenberg Collection mounted by Gettysburg College:
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In the USA’s tempestuous modern political landscape, the “gerrymander” has raised its quizzical head
In the ongoing war of words that appears to amount to American politics latterly, we’ve heard much of the “gerrymander”. A most unique beast, it is a creation of man, a friend to those in power, and the enemy of those out of power.
His Gain Is Our Loss
For the past year and a half, Paul Heersink (AKA “CCAer”) has run Cartography, a blog by and but not just for the Canadian Cartographic Association.
Free electronic PD maps now much easier to find
Not widely heralded except on a few blogs, the Libre Map Project has opened its doors on the ‘Web.
It’s premise is simple and simply stated:
- The Famous “Four-Color” Problem
The “Four-Color” problem sprang from a map, but is really about mathematics.
A Suggestion for Coloring a US Map (from Robin Thomas’s proof page)Somewhere along the line the carto-enthusiast will hear of the famous tautology that, if you wish to color a map along the lines of the illustration (to differentiate different regions, as was popular in the old Hammond and Rand McNally world atlases of the mid-20th Century), you will need no more than four colors.
- Strange Maps, Strange Worlds
New blog exhibits the weird and the interesting
I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won’t find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries that never existed – or never will exist.
- Rand McNally at 150: Back on Financial Course
The king of American map publishing comes back strongly after being passed up by online mapping
The Chicago Sun-Times gives us a snapshot of America’s preeminent paper map publisher, who grew into the undoubted titan on American map publishing, even to the point of acquiring Thomas Bros maps in 1999 only to enter bankruptcy in 2003 after mounting a failing effort to keep up with internet mappers such as Mapquest and Google.
Valuable resource changes its URL
Via a short message to the Maphist mailing list, Paul Anderson advises us that he’s moved his Gallery of Map Projection to a new URL: http://www.galleryofmapprojections.com/.
- Washington Map Society Announces Ristow Prize Winners
Winner Gavin Hollis Scores for paper on on map literacy in early modern England
The Washington Map Society have recently announced the winner and Honorable mention for the 2006 Walter W. Ristow Prize:
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- A Couple Of Professional Opportunities In Cartography
The Leventhal Center and Yale University both seek employees
Notice of a couple of opportunities for professional map librarians have landed in our inbox via the MapHist mailing list in the past week or so. They look like valuable work for just the right person and, as far as we are aware, applications are still being accepted:
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- Site To See: Historic City Maps
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