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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 | 3 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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Map Symbols: Land Use | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

                Map symbols for river and river related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem (Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans) Ministry of Agriculture Riga, Latvia, 1928. Original plate with translation to English below: p = parkland n [...]

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Map Symbols: Vegetation & Land Use | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Map symbols for vegetation and land use features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem (Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans) Ministry of Agriculture Riga, Latvia, 1928. Original plates with translation to English below: o = orchard a = kitchen garden b = arable land ub [...]

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Map Symbols: River Features | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Map symbols for river and river related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem (Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans) Ministry of Agriculture Riga, Latvia, 1928. Original plate with translation to English below: from top to bottom: Fjords: Small and for General Traffic Wharf and [...]

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Map Symbols: Bridges / Rivers | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , on November 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Map symbols for bridges and river related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem (Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans) Ministry of Agriculture Riga, Latvia, 1928. Original plate with translation to English below: Bridges: Iron Stone Wood Pontoon Raft Toll Bridges: Iron Stone Wood Floating [...]

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Map Symbols: Roads & Road Features | Latvia | 1920s

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , on October 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Map symbols for roads and road related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem (Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans) Ministry of Agriculture Riga, Latvia, 1928. Original plate with translation to English below: Public Roads: 1) a, b – carriageway edge 2) carriageway: c – [...]

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Map Symbols: Railroads

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Seventeen variations on a theme: Symbols for… Normal or broad gauge, single track railroad, operating. Normal or broad gauge, single track railroad, non-operating. Normal or broad gauge, double or multiple track railroad, operating. Normal or broad gauge, double or multiple track railroad, non-operating. Narrow gauge, single track railroad, operating. Narrow gauge, single track railroad, non-operating. [...]

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Map Design Annotated: 13 Voyager Maps from Making Maps 2nd Edition

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, Making Maps Book News, Maps Made, tagged , , , on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To understand map design, and how maps work, it is useful to see how map design concepts play out on a real map. One of the significant updates to the 2nd edition of Making Maps was the inclusion of a map of the 1986 trans-global flight of the experimental aircraft called Voyager. This map, originally [...]

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Mapping Radioactive Fallout in the United States

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, Advocacy Maps, tagged , , , , on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Concerns about the failing nuclear reactors in Japan and the fear of spreading radiation inspired me to share one of my favorite maps. The map shows areas in the United States crossed by two or more radioactive clouds during the era of nuclear testing (1951-1962) in the American Southwest. Click on the map for a [...]

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Word Maps | Words on Maps | Map Typography

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, tagged , , , , on January 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Click map for larger version; full version (7.3 mb PDF) here The beauty of words on maps is often not evident, embedded, as they are, in an array of other symbols. A “word map” of South America (above), published by the Geographical Press in 1935, consists entirely of hand-lettered words. The map is supposed to show [...]

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