Blogs about: Map Making

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Lengthy yet rewarding task

lucasharper wrote 5 days ago: Every now and then, a person will start upon a lengthy journey. More often than not, this journey wi … more →

Tags: Gaming, Castle, heroes of might and magic iii, HOMM3, Rampart, tower

Topographic map of earth from NASA available online

Rashid Faridi wrote 1 week ago: NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than e … more →

Tags: News

New Digital Elevation Model Covers 99 Percent of the Earth

Rashid Faridi wrote 2 weeks ago: Dear readers,found this good news on map room recently and thought of sharing with the world.Click h … more →

Tags: GIS

Left 4 Dead Campaign Idea Numero 1

Scrinner wrote 1 month ago: Left 4 Dead Campaign Idea #1- SkyHigh Description Sky High is a campaign based on Downtown Toronto … more →

Tags: CN Tower, concept, Game idea's, Left 4 Dead, Left4Dead, Potential Idea, Rogers Dome, sky dome, Toronto

Great music sample-maps by Ethan Hein1 comment

gigdoggy wrote 1 month ago: I was browsing through Digg’s music category and found this rather great Micheal Jackson Sampl … more →

Tags: Music and Musicians, Music Talk, Artists, Computers, digg, ethan hein, Flickr Account, fugees, funky drummer

Latitude and Longitude1 comment

Rashid Faridi wrote 2 months ago: Location on the Earth The earth is effectively a sphere, so how do we describe where a point is on … more →

Varsity gets user-friendly digital map from students

Rashid Faridi wrote 2 months ago: Vadodara: With the creative efforts of students of MSU’s department of geography, the universi … more →

Cycling maps made using GIS

Rashid Faridi wrote 2 months ago: Adventure Cycling Association, claimed to be the largest membership cycling organisation in North Am … more →

Tags: GIS

Top 5 Most Compelling Reasons to Read This Blog1 comment

gavin wrote 2 months ago: 1. Your life is not an adventure. You want to get excited about something again, like when you were … more →

OpenStreetMap Wants To Be The Wikipedia Of Maps3 comments

Mark Boslet wrote 4 months ago: Wikipedia redefined the encyclopedia business by relying on an army of online volunteers to post ent … more →

Tags: News, startups, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, CloudMade, openstreetmap, Silicon Valley, Startup, Sunstone Capital

So What is "The Map Habit" Anyway?

gavin wrote 4 months ago: The Map Habit is relatively simple to explain in theory, but as complex and diverse in practice as h … more →

Tags: Direction

The Dangers of Map Making2 comments

Noapplepie wrote 4 months ago: Most people think that cartography is a pretty cruisy job. Walk around and meticulously note the lan … more →

Tags: aboriginal, Australia, cartograpghy, Danger, ethical, Intellegence, map, Maps, War

The Map Habit...Map, Of Course

gavin wrote 4 months ago: The Map Habit - Map I honestly prefer to work on either paper or a giant whiteboard. For me the idea … more →

Tags: Direction

Do you know what a cartographer is...

Justin wrote 4 months ago: …because I forgot. Here’s some cool examples of Daniel Reeves’ cartography (that i … more →

Tags: design references, cartography, Map Design, art of maps

Mumbai, India Civic Body to take up Aerial Mapping

Rashid Faridi wrote 4 months ago: The BMC will no longer rely on archaic maps while drawing up plans against natural disasters such as … more →

Tags: GIS, Countries

Fallon Friday - Maps: an undiscovered dome of pleasure (Part 1)

voyageronline wrote 5 months ago: There’s a standing joke among the denigrators of fantasy that says the first rule of world building … more →

Tags: jennifer fallon, Fallon Friday, tide lords, fallon friday, immortal prince, on writing, медальон, World Building, Russell Kirkpatrick

China fines UK students for "illegal map-making"1 comment

GeodataPolicy wrote 6 months ago: Kate Lance passed along the following: China fines UK students for ‘illegal map-making’ … more →

Tags: Data Protection, Geospatial, China, Earthquakes, Students, UK

Gaza mapping initiatives1 comment

Rashid Faridi wrote 6 months ago: As the situation continues to deteriorate in Gaza there is a great need for better maps of the crisi … more →

Tags: GIS, Countries

Mapping Software?2 comments

occam99 wrote 7 months ago: Been thinking about the map for the world. I love hand drawing maps and even go so far as to paint s … more →

Tags: News, Geography, RPG, Storyteller, World creation, Fantasy, campaign cartographer


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