Three terrific new books on maps and mapping… Review by Denis Wood Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallman, eds., A People’s Atlas of Detroit (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2020). Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. Data Feminism (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2020). Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. When Maps Become the World (University of Chicago […]
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Three Cool Map Books: People’s Atlas of Detroit, Data Feminism, and When Maps Become the World
Posted in Map Books, Map History on June 2, 2021| 2 Comments »
Matthew Wilson’s New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2019| 2 Comments »
Why don’t you get a copy of Matthew Wilson’s book New Lines (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). The paperback isn’t very expensive. Grab a pencil and take notes in the margins as you read. Skip stuff that does not seem that interesting. And write down ideas as you read. I know some of the folks who follow […]
New Edition: Making Maps 3rd Edition!
Posted in Making Maps Book News on August 29, 2016| 3 Comments »
And now… what at least a dozen of you have been waiting for… Denis and I spent quite a bit of time rethinking significant parts of the second edition of Making Maps in several intense work sessions in Columbus, Ohio and Raleigh, North Carolina. Fists were pounded upon tables, changes demanded, reservations expressed, ideas […]
Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged Cartography - art, Maps - art on December 5, 2011| 12 Comments »
Eduardo Abaroa Proposal: We Just Need a Larger World, 2008 (detail) Construction wire, papier maché, world map cutouts and steel pins, 130cm x 130cm x 130cm Courtesy of the Artist and kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City From the Uneven Geographies Show at Nottingham Contemporary. ••••••• Denis Wood’s 2010 book Rethinking the Power of Maps includes a […]
Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated]
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged Activism maps, Advocacy Maps, Cartographic Design, Counter Cartography, Counter Mapping, Humanitarian Maps, Map Design, maps as arguments on June 6, 2009| 8 Comments »
When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geographical Expedition, 1968) he and the map were advocating a way of thinking about what was happening to the black community in Detroit – and advocating for change. All maps advocate. To advocate means to “to speak or write in favor of; […]
More Principles of Map Design
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, Design, Design Principles, Hate Group Maps, Map Design, maps, Run Over Children Maps, Terror Maps on February 5, 2008| 17 Comments »
Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even good) map. It may be the implementation of broader design principles that leads to a successful map. Principles are an intellectual generalization of a broad field of knowledge: a kind of map, in the broadest sense of the […]
Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Maps Made, tagged maps, narrative, place, psychogeography on January 10, 2008| 31 Comments »
Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina since the mid 1970s. The atlas, which has never been published in its entirety, is called Dancing and Singing: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights. Inspired by Bill Bunge’s radical cartography in the 1960s […]
Making Maps: DIY Cartography 