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Making Psychogeography Maps

Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five intrepid Ohio students and myself engaged in improvisational psychogeography, culminating in the ma… more →

Making Maps: DIY Cartography

Making Psychogeography Maps — 2 comments

John Krygier wrote 3 weeks ago: Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Maps Made, unMaking Maps, Maps - Grades 6-8, Maps - Weird

Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated] — 6 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 month ago: When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geograph … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Activism maps, Cartographic Design, Counter Cartography, Counter Mapping

Mapping with Isotype — 11 comments

John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Admi … more →

Tags: 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History

Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps — 2 comments

John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879 (Protohistoric and Prehistori … more →

Tags: 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map History, History of Cartography, Map Design, map symbols - farm fields, map symbols - French - 17th-19th century, map symbols - geology

A Map of Beerdom - New York, 11th Ward, 1885 — 1 comment

John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: “In the morning they come out with queer-looking eyes…” The above map represents … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Map History, Beer Maps, German Ethnic Maps, History of Cartography, statistical maps, Temperance Maps, thematic maps

New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels — 3 comments

John Krygier wrote 6 months ago: Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, Cartographic Design, Cartographic Theory, Cartography & Nature

Drawing Maps: Africa, ca. 1900 — 3 comments

John Krygier wrote 9 months ago: Drawing maps used to be a big part of the geography curriculum in the U.S. One guide for students, … more →

Tags: 04 Map-Making Tools, Map Cartoons, Map History, Africa Maps, Amusing Geography, Cartoon maps, drawing maps, History of Cartography, Making Maps

Mapping the Failure of the Iraq "Surge" — 10 comments

John Krygier wrote 9 months ago: Making maps to counter prevailing assumptions and beliefs is a well established tradition.  Counter … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Counter Mapping, Iraq surge, Night-time Light Maps, Propositional Maps, Protest Mapping, satellite imagery

American Maps Are Bad

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: From the New York Times, August 2, 1892: American Maps Are Bad “It is doubtful,” says … more →

Tags: 12 Finishing Your Map, Bad Maps, Map History, cartography, Maps, Wall maps

More Principles of Map Design — 5 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even g … more →

Tags: 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Cartographic Design, cartography, Design, Design Principles

Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights — 10 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborho … more →

Tags: 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Maps Made, Maps, Narrative, place, psychogeography

Subversive Cartographies — 3 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: What are subversive cartographies? This issue is addressed a series of presentations organized by C … more →

Tags: 01 What's A Map?, Deep Map Thoughts

Making Flat Earth Globes — 17 comments

John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: What if the world was spherical, but it didn’t matter? Most of you have been unable to avoid … more →

Tags: 05 Geographic Framework, Maps Made, unMaking Maps


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