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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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