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Map Symbols: Water Crossings | Boats, Fords, Bridges

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Francois de Dainville, in his Le Language des Geographes (1964, p. 162), compiled map symbols for various water crossings from historical European maps (1543-1777). The symbols include boats (Bac, above), fords (Gué, below)… …and bridges (Pont, below). The entire set of symbols in one image:

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A Bit More on Map Pins

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Map History, tagged , , on December 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »

When I compiled a previous post entitled “A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage,” largely based on Willard C. Brinton’s Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (1914) I rather forgot that Brinton had another tome, published in 1939, entitled Graphic Presentation. Among the pages of this latter book can be found a few items worthy of [...]

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More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Cartogram, 1930: “A Distorted Map of the United States Showing Population of Each State and of Cities of 50,000 or More in 1930″ (Printers’ Ink Publishing Co., Inc., Chart by Walter P. Burns and Associates, Inc., New York City) A cartogram scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog [...]

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1910 | Topographic Maps | Map Symbols | Egypt

Posted in 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Cartominutiae, Map Music, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 1, close-up) ••• Found while cleaning out an old map cabinet: oceans of just about nothing, punctuated by signs of a minimal landscape. Soiled, creased, tears, dusty. Thumb-print and fading pencil marks, from someone who stared at this map a long time ago. Details from a [...]

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Out Now | Denis Wood | Everything Sings

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged , , , , , , , on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Now shipping from Siglio Press Use discount code PUMPKIN for 20% off until November 12, 2010 Three maps from Everything Sings are below Sidewalk Graffiti | Wind Chimes | Radio Waves ••••• Sidewalk Graffiti (detail) Scratched, scrawled, or stamped into drying concrete—mostly from the 60s into the [...]

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A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Pin maps have not much been much used in the past, chiefly because a map pin which would give satisfactory service has not been available for common use. Until recently the map markers obtainable have been little more than old-fashioned carpet tacks having chisel-shaped points which cut the surface of any map into which they [...]

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New Atlas | Denis Wood | Everything Sings

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged , , , , , , , on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

••••• That a cartographer  could set out on a mission that’s so emotional, so personal, so idiosyncratic, was news to me.     —Ira Glass, host of This American Life ••••• Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood with an introduction by Ira Glass. Pub date: Nov. 12. $28  .  Paper  .  [...]

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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 [...]

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1923 Patented Cartogram

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2009 | 4 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 [...]

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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 | 11 Comments »

Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• 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. ••• Map detail: The path taken through campus followed [...]

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