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1923 Patented Cartogram
Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on them. Karl Karsten’s “population projection” was published in his book Charts and … more →
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
1923 Patented Cartogram
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John Krygier wrote 1 week ago: Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on … more →
Making Psychogeography Maps
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John Krygier wrote 3 weeks 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 1 month ago: The construction of symbols on maps requires the interaction of many elements. How these elements … more →
Flies on a Map
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John Krygier wrote 3 months ago: Don’t you think we’d better skidoo? They say this part of the map won’t be safe f … more →
Map Symbols: Permanent Snow & Ice
John Krygier wrote 4 months ago: This manual establishes the design, weights, and gauges of symbols, and the type styles and sizes t … more →
Mapping with Isotype
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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 →
Working Maps: 17th-19th Century French Manuscript Maps
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John Krygier wrote 5 months ago: Prähistorische Karte von Südwestdeutschland und der Schweiz, 1879 (Protohistoric and Prehistori … more →
Map Symbols: Trees & Forests on Old Russian Maps
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John Krygier wrote 6 months ago: Examples of map symbols used to show trees and forests on old Russian maps (1700s & 1800s) are … more →
Salt & Pepper Shaker Map of the United States
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John Krygier wrote 6 months ago: A set of salt and pepper shakers, one each for the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Photographs from the … more →
Map Symbols: Gibbets, Gallows, Execution
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John Krygier wrote 9 months 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 … 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 d … more →
Map Symbols: Wells and Springs
John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Wells Springs Successful, Unsuccessful Nonmineral, Mineral Nonmineral, Mineral, Artesian, Gravity, … 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 are … 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 g … 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 o … 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 neighborho … more →
Custom Map Symbols in Google Maps
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John Krygier wrote 1 year ago: Google’s My Maps allows the easy creation of pseudo map mash-ups, where you can map your own … more →
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