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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“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 Cartography, Critical Cartography, Denis Wood, maps, maps - theory, The Power of Maps on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
1923 Patented Cartogram
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartograms - history, History of Cartography, Map Design, Maps - patents, statistical maps, thematic maps on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on them. Karl Karsten’s “population projection” was published in his book Charts and Graphs (1923) and patented in 1925. As with the 1911 “Apportioinment Map” noted in an earlier post, the term “cartogram” was not used by Karsten to [...]
Fat-Tailed Sheep on Maps & Other Curios: The Map Collector
Posted in Map History, tagged History of Cartography, Map Collecting, Map Collector, Map History on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
from “Fat Tailed Sheep on Maps of Africa” The Map Collector, 1 June 1979 Collectors are a peculiar lot. They can frustrate somber scholars with their unconventional research methods and seeming interest in objects rather than context. Yet the passion and obsessiveness of collectors often produces an endless source of interesting materials. The Map Collector [...]
Flies on a Map
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged Cartoons, maps, Maps - Africa, Maps - cartoons, Maps - Flies on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don’t you think we’d better skidoo? They say this part of the map won’t be safe for big game this year.” Life, February 4, 1909
Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Map Design, map symbols, Snow & Ice - Map Symbols on March 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes to be used in compiling and drafting standard topographic maps prepared by the Army Map Service for publication at the scale of 1:1,000,000. During the compilation stages, strict adherence to symbol specifications shall not be required. Line weights and [...]
Mapping with Isotype
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History on February 17, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administration book on Mississippi Valley public works projects (Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration, October 1, 1934). The book is full of maps and other information graphics influenced by Otto Neurath, [...]
Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map History, tagged History of Cartography, Map Design, map symbols - farm fields, map symbols - French - 17th-19th century, map symbols - geology, map symbols - hunting grounds, map symbols - prehistoric sites, map symbols - property, map symbols - rivers, map symbols - terrain, map symbols - trees & forests, maps - manuscript on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879 (Protohistoric and Prehistoric Discoveries …) Looking at working maps – manuscripts, field sketches, and provisional maps – reveals a diversity of symbolization and design which are lost in the monoculture of finished, standardized maps. HistCarto brings together more than 4000 17th-19th century French manuscript maps. All are [...]
A Map of Beerdom – New York, 11th Ward, 1885
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Map History, tagged Advocacy Maps, Beer Maps, German Ethnic Maps, History of Cartography, statistical maps, Temperance Maps, thematic maps on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“In the morning they come out with queer-looking eyes…” The above map represents one ward of New York City – the Eleventh. The saloons as put upon this map were ascertained by the reporter of the Christian Union by actual count. The saloons are largely beer saloons: for the base of the population is German, [...]
Map Symbols: Trees & Forests on Old Russian Maps
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartographic Symbols - Trees and Forests, Historical Maps - Russia, History of Cartography, History of Maps, map symbols, Map Symbols - Trees and Forests, Russian Map Symbols - Historical on January 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Examples of map symbols used to show trees and forests on old Russian maps (1700s & 1800s) are documented in Izobrazhenie Lesa Na Kartakh by Liudmila Andreevna Shaposhnikova. The title is roughly translated to “How Forests are Depicted on Maps.” The book was published in Moskva, former USSR, in 1957. 1/22/09: Tree symbols from these [...]
Salt & Pepper Shaker Map of the United States
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Map Puzzles, Maps & Condiments, Salt & Pepper Shakers - Maps on January 6, 2009 | 14 Comments »
A set of salt and pepper shakers, one each for the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Photographs from the Jigsaw Puzzles Based on Maps page of PuzzleHistory.com.
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