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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A Bit More on Map Pins
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Map History, tagged J. Edgar Hoover - Map Pins, Map Pins, Map Pins - History on December 6, 2010 | 6 Comments »
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 Desert Maps, Egypt - maps, Empty maps, History of Cartography, Map Symbols - history, Maps - History, The Survey of Egypt 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 [...]
A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartopinography, Google Maps Map Pins, Map Pinnage, Map Pins, Map Pins - Art, Map Pins - History 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 [...]
Cartominutiae: Combined Symbols on Maps
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, tagged map symbols, Map Symbols - Combined, Map Symbols - Guides, symbols on June 12, 2009 | 4 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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