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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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Making Maps with Sound

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Quite a few years ago I wrote an overview article on the use of sound for representing geographic data, including a series of sound variables for mapping I developed. The article was titled “Sound and Geographic Visualization” and was published as a chapter in the now out-of-print book Visualization in Modern Cartography (MacEachren & Taylor [...]

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Map Songs: Longitude and Latitude Song

Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, 13 Multimedia Mapping, Map Music, tagged , , , , , 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, [...]

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Custom Map Symbols in Google Maps

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping on October 18, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Google’s My Maps allows the easy creation of pseudo map mash-ups, where you can map your own data as points, lines, and area symbols with Google Maps as the background. I wrote about My Maps – basic how-to and some of its limits – in another blog post, Allelopathic Maps & Google’s “My Maps.” One [...]

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Animated Maps in Google Earth

Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 13 Multimedia Mapping on July 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Google Earth can display geographic data with a time component, and thus show animated maps. Animated mapping has garnered much attention among cartographers in the last decade. I created a few Google Earth animated choropleth (literally, area-filling) maps of population change in Ohio. One map shows total population by county from 1900 to 2006. The [...]

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