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Comment on Making Maps with Sound by education sonorité et espace | Pearltrees

education sonorité et espace | Pearltrees — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:11 +0000

[...] The article is below as originally published. Making Maps with Sound « Making Maps: DIY Cartography [...]

Comment on Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11 by John Krygier / Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11 | Mapping Urban (Un)sustainabilities

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:27:57 +0000

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Comment on A Bit More on Map Pins by John Krygier

John Krygier — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:33:16 +0000

I included that quote in my “Making Maps” book! John K.

Comment on A Bit More on Map Pins by Felix

Felix — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:30:16 +0000

“I want to hang a map of the world in my house, then I am going to put pins into all the locations I have traveled to, but first I will have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won’t fall down”
– Mitch Hedberg

Comment on Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11 by Carolyn MacLeod

Carolyn MacLeod — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:27 +0000

I am currently trying to write a dissertation for my BA Fine Art on the role of the landscape painter/artist in the contemporary art world with a particular emphasis on landscape as a genre of psychological and physiological escape from the systems and structures of the city and wondered what peope’s thoughts were on this subject. Do you agree or disagree that there is a place for landscape art in today’s society and culture? I am currently working with cut maps and the language of cartography as a system or exploring this notion of escape.
Carolyn MacLeod, Farnham, England

Comment on Making Maps with a Typewriter by Maruza

Maruza — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:41:17 +0000

nice article, Id like to share: a simple way to create scale map by triangle

no need a compass nor protractor, no need to visit every landscape objects to measure…but all objects must be visible from a distance

Only needs: pencil, ruller, paper to draw line / map…and only needs 1 known distance, the rest can be calculated by scale..

http://maruzar.blogspot.com/2011/12/drawing-simple-scale-map-by-triangle.html

hope it can be useful

Comment on Map Symbols: Bridges / Rivers | Latvia | 1920s by Brian S

Brian S — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:58:34 +0000

mazaisole

Intersting. Thanks for the explanation

Comment on Map Symbols: Bridges / Rivers | Latvia | 1920s by mazaisole

mazaisole — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:47:07 +0000

In this case raft has a meaning of crossing. Not every where there used to be bridges in Latvia, so they used rafts for that. I wouldn’t use word ferry for that in the nowadays meaning just because those were not ferries but really rafts. Term “Boat Raft” means that actually a boat was used to transport whatever to the other coast of river. “Oared Raft” is meant to be raft made of wood like the one from Huckleberry Finn (couldn’t find better comparison for explanation). And the “Roped Raft” means that the raft was moved by pulling the rope in which it was fixed. SO there are no rowing as in the “Oared Raft”

Comment on Subversive Cartographies by Inspiration for The Map and the Territory « lightgraphite

Inspiration for The Map and the Territory « lightgraphite — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:13:36 +0000

[...] This next little black map represents the pumpkins that can be found here. It represent all the pumpkin lanterns that can be found in a Boylan Heights neighborhood. The overall idea is attempt to convey creative, place-inspired maps, including maps of night, crime, fences, graffiti, textures, autumn leaves, routes, the underground, lines overhead, stars, and jack-o-lanterns. As it is being called subversive cartography. [...]

Comment on Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights by Inspiration for The Map and the Territory « lightgraphite

Inspiration for The Map and the Territory « lightgraphite — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:13:34 +0000

[...] This next little black map represents the pumpkins that can be found here. It represent all the pumpkin lanterns that can be found in a Boylan Heights neighborhood. The [...]