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Rethinking Maps
Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about Rethinking Maps, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Routledge 2009), sez: Maps a… more →
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
Rethinking Maps
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John Krygier wrote 4 months ago: Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about R … more →
1923 Patented Cartogram
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John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on t … more →
Making Psychogeography Maps
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John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five … more →
Cartominutiae: Combined Symbols on Maps
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John Krygier wrote 6 months ago: The construction of symbols on maps requires the interaction of many elements. How these elements c … more →
Flies on a Map
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John Krygier wrote 8 months ago: Don’t you think we’d better skidoo? They say this part of the map won’t be safe fo … more →
Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice
John Krygier wrote 9 months ago: This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes to … more →
Mapping with Isotype
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John Krygier wrote 10 months ago: I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administr … more →
Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps
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John Krygier wrote 10 months ago: Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879 (Protohistoric and Prehistoric Dis … more →
Map Symbols: Trees & Forests on Old Russian Maps
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John Krygier wrote 11 months ago: Examples of map symbols used to show trees and forests on old Russian maps (1700s & 1800s) are d … more →
Salt & Pepper Shaker Map of the United States
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John Krygier wrote 11 months ago: A set of salt and pepper shakers, one each for the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Photographs from the J … more →
Map Symbols: Gibbets, Gallows, Execution
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Official sites of execution – prisons, military bases, etc. – are found in parts of the … more →
Map Symbols: Landforms & Terrain
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Erwin Raisz is among the most creative cartographers of the 20th century, known in particular for hi … more →
Making Maps with Sound
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Quite a few years ago I wrote an overview article on the use of sound for representing geographic da … more →
Map Symbols: Wells and Springs
John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Wells Springs Successful, Unsuccessful Nonmineral, Mineral Nonmineral, Mineral, Artesian, Gravity, A … more →
1911 Cartogram: "Apportionment Map"
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: A cartogram varies the size of geographic areas based on the data values associated with each area. … more →
Map Symbols: Showing Multivariate Data with Texture
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Map of New York City, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts … more →
More Principles of Map Design
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Making maps is rife with rules. But following rules does not necessarily produce a great (or even go … more →
Map Symbols: Coastlines
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Ah, the shingly shore… William McTaggart, A Shingly Shore, oil on canvas, 1904. The nature of … more →
Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborhoo … more →
