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 describe [...]
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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 | 3 Comments »
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 Maps - Grades 6-8, Maps - Weird, psychogeography, Psychogeography - Grades 6-8, Psychogeography - Lesson Plans, Psychogeography Maps, Sensory Mapping on June 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg)
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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.
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Map detail: The path taken through campus followed the outline of a [...]
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 »
“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, and a large [...]
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 square [...]
Mapping the Failure of the Iraq “Surge”
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, tagged Counter Mapping, Iraq Surge, Night-time Light Maps, Propositional Maps, Protest Mapping, Satellite Imagery on September 30, 2008 | 10 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 to [...]
Map Symbols: Landforms & Terrain
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, landform maps, Map Design, map symbols, maps, scenery on maps, terrain maps on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Erwin Raisz is among the most creative cartographers of the 20th century, known in particular for his maps of landforms.
In 1931 Raisz outlined and illustrated the methods behind his landform maps, in an article in the Geographical Review (Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1931). Excerpts from the text and graphics in the article are [...]
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 | 4 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 [...]
1911 Cartogram: “Apportionment Map”
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged cartograms, Cartographic Design, Map Design, map symbols, statistical maps, thematic maps on February 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
A cartogram varies the size of geographic areas based on the data values associated with each area. Typical cartograms scale geographic areas to population, GNP, electoral votes, etc.
This “apportionment map,” as creator William B. Bailey (Professor of Political Economy, Yale University) calls it, scales the size of U.S. states to the size of [...]
Map Symbols: Showing Multivariate Data with Texture
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartography, Edward Tufte, ethnicity maps, Jacques Bertin, Map Design, map symbols, maps, multivariate, texture, visual variables on February 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Map of New York City, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts published in Harper’s Weekly (June 1, 1894) using 1890 U.S. Census data.
This map looks great, revealing a substantial amount of information with its intense, juxtaposed patterns.
The textures on the map show the relative amounts of different nationalities (qualitative data) in [...]
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 »
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