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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 , , , , on March 27, 2012 | 4 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 [...]

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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 , on December 5, 2011 | 4 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 [...]

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More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , 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 [...]

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Out Now | Denis Wood | Everything Sings

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged , , , , , , , on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Now shipping from Siglio Press Use discount code PUMPKIN for 20% off until November 12, 2010 Three maps from Everything Sings are below Sidewalk Graffiti | Wind Chimes | Radio Waves ••••• Sidewalk Graffiti (detail) Scratched, scrawled, or stamped into drying concrete—mostly from the 60s into the [...]

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New Atlas | Denis Wood | Everything Sings

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged , , , , , , , on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

••••• That a cartographer  could set out on a mission that’s so emotional, so personal, so idiosyncratic, was news to me.     —Ira Glass, host of This American Life ••••• Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood with an introduction by Ira Glass. Pub date: Nov. 12. $28  .  Paper  .  [...]

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1923 Patented Cartogram

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Making Psychogeography Maps

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Maps Made, unMaking Maps, tagged , , , , , , on June 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »

Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five intrepid Ohio students and myself engaged in improvisational psychogeography, culminating in the map opening this post. A printable 11″ x 17″ (300dpi 1.4mb) PDF of the map is here. ••• Map detail: The path taken through campus followed [...]

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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 , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“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, [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Mapping the Failure of the Iraq “Surge”

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, tagged , , , , , on September 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Making maps to counter prevailing assumptions and beliefs is a well established tradition.  Counter mapping, radical mapping, protest mapping … the map proposes an alternative.  Bolstered by its authoritative aura, the map can be quite convincing. Geographers John Agnew, Thomas Gillespie, and Jorge Gonzalez, with Political Scientist Brian Min (all of UCLA) propose an alternative [...]

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