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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 , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Map Songs: Wire’s Map Ref. 41° N 93° W

Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, Map Music, tagged , , , , on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Right on the heels of my post on the toe-tapping Longitude and Latitude song, a bit of background information on my other favorite coordinate-oriented song, Map Ref. 41° N 93° W by Wire. I quoted a bit of the lyrics from this song in the Making Maps book, to close the Geographic Framework chapter: An [...]

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Map Songs: Longitude and Latitude Song

Posted in 05 Geographic Framework, 13 Multimedia Mapping, Map Music, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Maps and cartography are not particularly popular as song themes. But there is the Longitude and Latitude Song (MP3 file here). Careful or you’ll be singing this one out loud in your cubicle. Performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans, and written by Hy Zaret, the song is one of a series of sciency tunes, [...]

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