... like those of paintings or novels or poems. His argument for a kind of “poetics of cartography” provides context to the maps that follow, a narrative about how life was in his Boylan Heights neighborhood in the early 1980s.
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From Churchill to Assad Jerusalem Post In the ancient world Sumerians, Akkadians and Assyrians were fighting among themselves just as today Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds do.
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Google has released a beta version of Google Maps Engine Lite, a stripped down version of its enterprise mapmaking service that caters to individuals.
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New York City plans to replace the maps in its subway stations with touch screen displays that will provide simple directions and real-time service alerts.
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The book suggestion of this week is about one of my favorite themes, semiotics. The book is titled Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps, written by Jacques Bertin. Semiotics definition is basically the theory of the ...
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Visual News Two Superb, Hand-Drawn Maps of London Visual News When I visited Rome last summer I picked up a free, hand-drawn map of the city.
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'A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox' New York Times Into this book, now part of the Kislak Collection of the Library of Congress, Schöner bound two masterpieces of cartography by Martin Waldseemüller, celestial and terrestrial globe patterns of his...
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Strange maps ABC Technology and Games Frank Jacobs is a man who took what might be an almost unhealthy obsession with maps online. His blog Strange Maps is the result—a collection that runs the cartographic gamut from extraordinary to bizarre.
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The video of an excellent lecture by Derek Gregory entitled "Gabriel's Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War" is now available. The lecture formed part of the University of Kentucky Commit... Delete the scoop?
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An atlas of world maps by illustrators and storytellers MAR 13 2013. This looks beautiful: A Map of the World is a collection of maps by illustrators and storytellers. I've featured at least a few of the maps in the book here on kottke.org.
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Museum Studies students curate new exhibition to celebrate maps as ...
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Big Think (blog) 601 - Bigger Than You Think: the Vatican and its Annexes Big Think (blog) In the south and west, the border follows the 9th-century Leonine Wall [12] - the bastions are clearly visible on the map.
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The Epoch Times Maps and the Chinese Imperial World View The Epoch Times "Map of the Great Qing's Myriad Tribute States (Using) Mercator's Projection of Longitude and Latitude in a Globular Projection Old and New." China, Qing dynasty, Jiajing...
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Why America Is Called America New York Times The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World.
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To celebrate the opening of Map Gallery submissions for the 2013 Esri UC, we're showcasing some of our favorite maps from last year's conference.
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The stories behind Malta's historical maps MaltaToday That Malta's history is rich and varied is a fact taken for granted by both locals and visiting foreigners alike, and while its heritage is a common draw for tourists, the practice of...
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The Geography of Valentine's Day: 4 Maps to Explain a World in Love BostInno (blog) Four maps share some perspective on that question.
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