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Posts Tagged ‘ohio’

Footprints

2 March 2010 tagged dayton, ohio, simple geography with 10 comments

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 [...]

The music of geography: Ohio is a piano

30 July 2009 tagged frivolous, map projects, ohio, sound with 51 comments

Last month, as I was driving through Ohio to collect my final three counties in the state, it dawned on me: There are 88 counties in this state. There are 88 keys on a piano. I don’t know anything about music, but holy crap, I have to make a map based on this coincidence.
And so [...]