“In the morning they come out with queer-looking eyes…” The above map represents one ward of New York City – the Eleventh. The saloons as put upon this map were ascertained by the reporter of the Christian Union by actual count. The saloons are largely beer saloons: for the base of the population is German, […]
Search Results for 'new york'
A Map of Beerdom – New York, 11th Ward, 1885
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Map History, tagged Advocacy Maps, Beer Maps, German Ethnic Maps, History of Cartography, statistical maps, Temperance Maps, thematic maps on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“A Map of Nowhere Showing Everything”: Andre’s Plan & Map Drawing (1891)
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Maps - Symbols on April 2, 2013 | 1 Comment »
“Plan shewing principle characters of work used in mapping.” A map of nowhere showing everything. ••••••• Without and with color. ••••••• Terrain symbols. ••••••• “Plan shewing proposed new street.” Maps are propositions, right? ••••••• Trees and terrain. ••••••• Geological mapping. ••••••• George G. André The Draughtsman’s Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing Including Instructions for […]
Denis Wood’s Dissertation – I Don’t Want To But I Will (PDF)
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged Cartography, Denis Wood, maps, Mental Mapping, psychogeography on March 27, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I Don’t Want To But I Will: Title Page of Denis Wood’s Dissertation Throughout graduate school I heard tales of the Denis Wood’s outrageous dissertation, curiously titled I Don’t Want To But I Will. Of particular interest are the scathing Acknowledgments, where Denis took his advisors to task. A worn copy of the Acknowledgments was […]
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 | 5 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 […]
More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged cartograms, Cartograms - history, Distorted Maps on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cartogram, 1930: “A Distorted Map of the United States Showing Population of Each State and of Cities of 50,000 or More in 1930″ (Printers’ Ink Publishing Co., Inc., Chart by Walter P. Burns and Associates, Inc., New York City) A cartogram scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog […]
A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartopinography, Google Maps Map Pins, Map Pinnage, Map Pins, Map Pins - Art, Map Pins - History on September 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Pin maps have not much been much used in the past, chiefly because a map pin which would give satisfactory service has not been available for common use. Until recently the map markers obtainable have been little more than old-fashioned carpet tacks having chisel-shaped points which cut the surface of any map into which they […]
1923 Patented Cartogram
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartograms - history, History of Cartography, Map Design, Maps - patents, statistical maps, thematic maps on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on them. Karl Karsten’s “population projection” was published in his book Charts and Graphs (1923) and patented in 1925. As with the 1911 “Apportioinment Map” noted in an earlier post, the term “cartogram” was not used by Karsten to […]
Mapping with Isotype
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History on February 17, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administration book on Mississippi Valley public works projects (Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration, October 1, 1934). The book is full of maps and other information graphics influenced by Otto Neurath, […]
Google Maps Kills Bambi
Posted in 04 Map-Making Tools, Maps Kill, tagged fauns - killed by map makers, map making - dangers, Maps Kill on February 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Making maps kills baby animals! Ok, they are claiming the frightened yet adorable faun fawn didn’t die. A car making images for Google Map’s Street View wacked a faun fawn in upstate New York. …As some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in […]
Making Maps with Sound
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping, tagged Map Design, Map Symbolization, Mapping with Sound, Multimedia Mapping, Sonification, Sound Maps on March 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Quite a few years ago I wrote an overview article on the use of sound for representing geographic data, including a series of sound variables for mapping I developed. The article was titled “Sound and Geographic Visualization” and was published as a chapter in the now out-of-print book Visualization in Modern Cartography (MacEachren & Taylor […]
