Footprints
In spite of everything that maps can do, the ones I enjoy most are the simplest of all, those that reveal geography by stripping away all but some particular phenomenon and showing little or nothing more than where it exists. It’s the challenge of interpretation, or the self-satisfaction of recognizing something, or the imagining of [...]
Obligatory Valentine’s Day map
Even while under the knife as we do some final development work, indiemapper sends its love.
Remember, the sweetest sentiment today and forever is:
The “Pacific Islands” are actually just a myth
So when you map them, go ahead and omit most of the Pacific. It’s empty anyway.
The same goes for Terra Australis, but it is customary to retain an “Antarctica” label as a joke.
Seen at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio.
The drinking society with a mapping problem
I’ve recently returned from Sacramento after attending the 2009 conference of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and I wish to briefly plug the organization here in case either of my readers is not already familiar with it.
If you work with maps, you should join NACIS and go to its meetings. Consider these facts:
NACIS [...]
Warning: do not attempt to use this map as a map
A small globe spotted for sale at Target the other day:
Apparently we’re allowed to just put warning labels on our maps instead of trying to make them, you know, accurate. Either that or this sphere has particularly sharp corners and is not safe for a classroom full of children.
Remember, bad maps kill! Cartographers, always protect [...]
Don’t make me search!
(Update, June 19: How ’bout that? Google has just added a feature that is almost exactly what I was wishing for in this post. Read about it at the Google LatLong blog. At least I got this post out just before that was added, so I don’t look entirely like a fool.)
There’s a lot of [...]
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