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Rethinking Maps

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map Cartoons, Map Police, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about Rethinking Maps, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Routledge 2009), sez:
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, [...]

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1923 Patented Cartogram

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2009 | 3 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 describe [...]

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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 | 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 [...]

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Cartominutiae: Combined Symbols on Maps

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, tagged , , , on June 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The construction of symbols on maps requires the interaction of many elements.  How these elements come together – literally the intersection of bits of points, lines, and areas – is the subject of a series of illustrations entitled “The Drawing of Combined Symbols.”  The majority of these guidelines focus on peculiar details that when done [...]

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Flies on a Map

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged , , , , 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

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Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map History, tagged , , , on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes to be used in compiling and drafting standard topographic maps prepared by the Army Map Service for publication at the scale of 1:1,000,000.
During the compilation stages, strict adherence to symbol specifications shall not be required.  Line weights and gauges [...]

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Mapping with Isotype

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History on February 17, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administration book on Mississippi Valley public works projects (Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration, October 1, 1934). The book is full of maps and other information graphics influenced by Otto [...]

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Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879

(Protohistoric and Prehistoric Discoveries …)

Looking at working maps – manuscripts, field sketches, and provisional maps – reveals a diversity of symbolization and design which are lost in the monoculture of finished, standardized maps.
HistCarto brings together more than 4000 17th-19th century French manuscript maps.  All are working maps, and [...]

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Map Symbols: Trees & Forests on Old Russian Maps

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , , on January 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Examples of map symbols used to show trees and forests on old Russian maps (1700s & 1800s) are documented in Izobrazhenie Lesa Na Kartakh by Liudmila Andreevna Shaposhnikova.  The title is roughly translated to “How Forests are Depicted on Maps.” The book was published in Moskva, former USSR, in 1957.

1/22/09: Tree symbols from these maps [...]

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Salt & Pepper Shaker Map of the United States

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on January 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »

A set of salt and pepper shakers, one each for the 48 contiguous U.S. states.

Photographs from the Jigsaw Puzzles Based on Maps page of PuzzleHistory.com.

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