Mapnostic

Maps, errata, etc.... For just the maps, presented slightly more coherently: Mizmay.com

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On Mobile Mapping...

"That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making. But we've carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?”

"About six inches to the mile.”

"Only six inches!" exclaimed Mein Herr. "We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!”

"Have you used it much?" I enquired.

"It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well…."

Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, p 169. Published 1889.

[susie-c]

Google is paying city worker salaries and Facebook is designing police stations. What could go wrong? My feature at Next City on Silicon Valley’s new company towns.

[maplibrary]

SFSU Bike to Work Day Thursday May 14th.  

There will be three bicycle convoys leaving different parts of the city at 8:30 am and will finish at SFSU.  

Convoy 1, Meet at 32nd and Judah

Convoy 2,    “     “  Fell and Masonic

Convoy 3,    “     “   Balboa Park BART

From 11:00 am to 2:00 pm there will be free bicycle maintenance in front of the HSS building.  

At 11:45 am, President Leslie Wong will be escorted by the Bicycle Geographies class (GEOG 437) to explore and evaluate bike routes in the vicinity of SFSU. 

SFBC Article

BikeSFSU Tumblr

BikeSFSU Insta

BikeSFSU Eventbrite

Poster by Gabriel Price

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Rhumblines

A rhumbline is useful in oceanic navigation because it represents a constant bearing or compass direction. You’ll see them as straight, diagonal lines on old maps in the Mercator projection. 

Contrast this with a great circle, which is the shortest distance between two points on a globe. This is not a straight line on a Mercator projection:

Following a great circle, thus going in a straight line, when navigating with a compass is actually super hard unless you are exceptionally good at doing trigonometry in your head. Luckily we all have GPS now, so compass bearings are not as essential for navigation. So why is Mercator still so ubiquitous then? Because now we like to navigate by panning and zooming on web maps, which looks smoother if lines of equal bearing, or linear scale, is preserved.

[mapnostic]

Psst: #geobeers this Wed, April 8, 9 pm. Spread the word.

[blech]

From the Washington Post, Alfredo Jaar’s Life Magazine, April 19, 1968:

Alongside a reproduction of a photo of King’s funeral that ran in “Life,” Jaar graphically lays bare the nation’s racial divisions at the time of the civil rights leader’s death. In one frame, Jaar represents all of the African Americans at the funeral march with black dots. In a second frame, he shows the white people present as red dots. There are thousands of black dots and only a few dozen red ones.

Jaar produced the work in 1995, but until recently it has not been exhibited. “There was no interest in showing this kind of stuff at that time,” the artist, whose work focuses on the politics of images, said in a phone interview Thursday.

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From Series 2, Episode 1 of The Fall. Crime analysis using funny red lines on top of Google Maps. Is this product placement? Probably not. I would like to think Google cringes at the funny red scribbles on top of their brand.

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[scottdshaffer]

Property values and traffic in Minneapolis and St. Paul

Green means higher property values per square foot, red means lower.

Dark blue means more cars per day, white means fewer.

Minneapolis PDF

St. Paul PDF

[kaseyklimes]

Demo of live video integration with the new Mapbox GL. This is next level! #Mapbox #OSM10thBirthday (at Mapbox)

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Check it out: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-video-drone/

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"Berlin's first textile butchery" (at Aufschnitt Berlin)

[mapnostic]

Found the source of #doge on an obscure map of South Korea

[hyperrealcartography]

Reber Plan for San Francisco

[maplibrary]

"Reber Plan" 1942.  A proposal that would fill in a large portion of the Bay, and dam sections of it for fresh water reservoirs (spur.org). 

[chirp]

I designed and illustrated a map and guide to Golden Gate Park, and the Bold Italic produced a beautiful screenprint of it! There are tiny animals and tiny poops and a pizza slice and a hot dog!

[maphugger]

You had me at “tiny poops”.

[mapnostic]

Post-apocalyptic games for kids on Virgin America entertainment consoles.

[olisaurusrex]

Bristol based artist Gareth Wood, aka Fuller, has spent over 500 hours creating a hand-drawn personalised map of the city. The cartographer claims his depiction was inspired by the residents view of the West Country’s capital, seeking to create a psycho-geographical landscape.

The map will be exhibited in a grand unveiling at It’s All 2 Much gallery in Stokes Croft, on the 31st of May

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