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Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged , on December 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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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A Crooked Stick Straightened: Map Making as Juvenile Delinquent Reform

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Deep Map Thoughts, Map History, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From a slouching, unkempt, uncouth, shambling, horrid boy, he emerged into being a respectable, neat, tidy, order-loving, painstaking, and industrious young man. – Miss Winthrop, 1888 I had an ugly, unruly boy in my room, and be gave me more trouble than all the rest of the class. When I inherited him I felt as [...]

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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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“There were no maps before 1500″ | Denis Wood | New Book | Rethinking the Power of Maps

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged , , , , , on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Denis Wood’s followup to his classic The Power of Maps (1992) is almost entirely new in content.  I have included the book’s table of contents below. A PDF copy of chapter 1 is included. This chapter argues, provocatively, “there were no maps before 1500″ – a serious challenge to our assumptions about the map as [...]

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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 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 | 10 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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Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated]

Posted in Deep Map Thoughts, 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Map Books, Advocacy Maps, tagged , , , , , , , on June 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »

When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geographical Expedition, 1968) he and the map were advocating a way of thinking about what was happening to the black community in Detroit – and advocating for change. All maps advocate. To advocate means to “to speak or write in favor of; [...]

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New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University of Chicago Press and many other sources. The lowest price I can find at this time is $29 (at Buy.com). Denis is, of course, co-author of the Making Maps book. The book is big – almost a foot [...]

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Cartocacoethes: Why the World’s Oldest Map Isn’t a Map

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, Deep Map Thoughts, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2008 | 17 Comments »

Holy crap! What to do when one of the few iconic prehistoric maps isn’t a map? The 6200 BC “map” of Çatalhöyük in Turkey, complete with erupting “volcano” in the background, prefaces many discussions of maps and mapping.  It is used to situate contemporary mapping as part of a long trajectory – “humans have always [...]

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