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; [...]
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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 »
Flies on a Map
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged Cartoons, maps, Maps - Africa, Maps - cartoons, Maps - Flies on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don’t you think we’d better skidoo? They say this part of the map won’t be safe for big game this year.” Life, February 4, 1909
New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartographic Theory, Cartography & Nature, Critical Theory, Geography Theory, Map Design, Map Theory, Maps & Nature, Propositional Logic on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University of Chicago Press and many other sources. The lowest price I can find at this time is $29 (at Buy.com). Denis is, of course, co-author of the Making Maps book. The book is big – almost a foot [...]
321 Definitions of “Map”
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 10 Type on Maps, Map History, tagged Map Definitions, What is a Map?, Word Clouds on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
What is a map? J.H. Andrews compiled 321 definitions of “map” for a 1996 article (“What Was a Map?” Cartographica 33:4, pp. 1-11). Edit out all the source information and other miscellaneous stuff and you have a bunch of words that can be pumped into a word cloud generator like the wonderful Wordle. The word [...]
Cartocacoethes: Why the World’s Oldest Map Isn’t a Map
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, Deep Map Thoughts, Map History, tagged Çatal Hüyük, Çatalhöyük, Cartocacoethes, Fantasy Maps, History of Cartography, Map Simulacra, Prehistoric Map Myths, Prehistoric Maps, Pretend Maps on October 13, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Holy crap! What to do when one of the few iconic prehistoric maps isn’t a map? The 6200 BC “map” of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, complete with erupting “volcano” in the background, prefaces many discussions of maps and mapping. It is used to situate contemporary mapping as part of a long trajectory – “humans have always [...]
A Weather Map of Billy’s Bed
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged Cartoons, maps, Weather Maps on January 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Deane Powell | Life | December 1, 1910
Subversive Cartographies
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Deep Map Thoughts on January 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What are subversive cartographies? This issue is addressed a series of presentations organized by Chris Perkins (University of Manchester) and Jörn Seemann (Louisiana State University) for the upcoming 2008 Association of American Geographers meeting (Boston, April 15-19 2008). “To be subversive, is to wish to overthrow, destroy or undermine the principles of established orders. As [...]
Raisz’s History of American Cartography Timelines
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, Map History on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Harvard’s Erwin Raisz (1893-1968) was one of the 20th century’s preeminent cartographers (bio, bio, bio). Most people know of his landform maps, which are still in print. Raisz was also responsible for a series of atlases and hundreds of maps in books and academic articles. In a 1937 article for the journal Isis entitled “Outline [...]
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