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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 | 20 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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More Principles of Map Design

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even good) map. It may be the implementation of broader design principles that leads to a successful map. Principles are an intellectual generalization of a broad field of knowledge: a kind of map, in the broadest sense of the [...]

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Subversive Cartographies

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Deep Map Thoughts on January 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »

What are subversive cartographies? This issue is addressed a series of presentations organized by Chris Perkins (University of Manchester) and Jörn Seemann (Louisiana State University) for the upcoming 2008 Association of American Geographers meeting (Boston, April 15-19 2008). “To be subversive, is to wish to overthrow, destroy or undermine the principles of established orders. As [...]

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Hacking Making Maps

Posted in Deep Map Thoughts on March 29, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Q: That weird stuff in Making Maps… did you hack your book?! A: Hacking has diverse meanings as documented at Wikipedia. It can be a prank or elaborate joke, a clever solution to a problem, a legal or illegal modification of a computer program (for good or evil purposes), or anything that is fun and [...]

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Is Cartography Dead?

Posted in Deep Map Thoughts on August 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Q: Is cartography dead? A: Denis Wood thinks so, me too (maybe – kinda depends on what you mean by “cartography”). Read his polemic Cartography is Dead (Thank God!) (download/view the PDF here originally published in Cartographic Perspectives number 45, Spring 2003). It isn’t that Denis believes mapping is dead – quite the contrary. There [...]

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