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Denis Wood’s Dissertation – I Don’t Want To But I Will (PDF)

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged , , , , on March 27, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I Don’t Want To But I Will: Title Page of Denis Wood’s Dissertation Throughout graduate school I heard tales of the Denis Wood’s outrageous dissertation, curiously titled I Don’t Want To But I Will. Of particular interest are the scathing Acknowledgments, where Denis took his advisors to task. A worn copy of the Acknowledgments was [...]

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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 | 4 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 | 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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Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated]

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, 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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