Right on the heels of my post on the toe-tapping Longitude and Latitude song, a bit of background information on my other favorite coordinate-oriented song, Map Ref. 41° N 93° W by Wire. I quoted a bit of the lyrics from this song in the Making Maps book, to close the Geographic Framework chapter: An [...]
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Map Songs: Wire’s Map Ref. 41° N 93° W
Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, Map Music, tagged Coordinate Systems, Graham Lewis, Latitude/Longitude, Map Songs, Wire (band) on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Map Songs: Longitude and Latitude Song
Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, 13 Multimedia Mapping, Map Music, tagged Cartography, latitude, longitude, Map Music, maps, Singing Science on February 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Maps and cartography are not particularly popular as song themes. But there is the Longitude and Latitude Song (MP3 file here). Careful or you’ll be singing this one out loud in your cubicle. Performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans, and written by Hy Zaret, the song is one of a series of sciency tunes, [...]
Making Flat Earth Globes
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 05 Geographic Framework, Maps Made, unMaking Maps on September 19, 2007 | 22 Comments »
What if the world was spherical, but it didn’t matter? Most of you have been unable to avoid the flat-earth kerfuffle on the day-time talk show The View. On a recent episode one of the hosts, Sherri Shepherd, said she doesn’t believe the theory of evolution. Whoopi Goldberg, also a host, asked Shepherd “Is the [...]
These Maps Tell Lies!
Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, 08 Generalization & Classification, Map History on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was catching up on back issues of the magazine The Independent (the May 22, 1920 issue) and came across this historical tidbit entitled “These Maps Tell Lies.” (link to larger PDF) “An absolutely accurate and truthful map can be used in skillful hands to mislead the unwary. Only the crudest propagandists will distort his [...]
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