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Tag Archives: Maps
Sunday, Someday ?
đ±Â Artful Cats: This collection of cat-inspired art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian is a truly delightful set to browse through. Paintings, sketches, ceramics, centuries of artists who just couldn’t resist drawing cats. You could easily lose an hour in here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Maps, Smithsonian Institution, Abu Dhabi, cats, transit maps
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It’s Only A Paper Moon or Globe
I have always been fascinated by globes. When I was a wee lad I had a globe/lamp combo on my nightstand and I would spin the globe and dream of breaking out. I even made my own paper mache globe … Continue reading
More Stuff You Want To See ?
Peter Guillam and his daughter have used the Claude LLM to create a tool for mapping characters’ journeys in novels, PlotLines. He writes about the process here. His other tools include a Hansard search and a map of redundant churches. âYouâd see massive glacier … Continue reading
Exonym Atlas
An exonym is a place name used by outsidersâfor example, English speakers using Germany for Deutschland. The Exonym Atlas explores how other languages name countries and groups those names by usage. Fascinating to see the derivations of names, which donât always follow language families: for … Continue reading
Emptying Europe
Where Europeâs Population is Shrinking, is an excellent example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuanced geographic story. In this case, the story is one of Europeâs rural depopulation and how … Continue reading
London in the 18th Century
I never tire of reading about Britain’s greatest city. London in the 18th Century by Wallace Crawford Snowden, revised and edited by Marie Clayton, offers a full reproduction of pioneering cartographer John Rocqueâs 1746 An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster which provided … Continue reading
NYC People
Named Streets NYC: This is a neat â a website showing New York, and specifically giving information about who the people some of its streets are named after were. âThis map shows the names and biographical information for streets that … Continue reading
Gotta Love A Good Guidebook
Ă vontuura publishes architecturally-focused city guides. They are beautifully-mapped, with wonderful illustrations of the various architectural landmarks you can visit, information about the buildings, QR codes linking to more data. The maps are attractive and detail focused. Titles blend contemporary, modern, … Continue reading
New York, New York
I was astonished by the new website isometric nyc. This project offers an amazingly detailed and incredibly comprehensive isometric pixel art map of New York City â not just Manhattan either, but all the other boroughs too, including my ancestral land of … Continue reading
Occupation Cartography
Over the last year or two I’ve seen many social media posts about “occupying powers” and accusations about nations or peoples being “colonizers”. I’ve been thinking that maps may help clarify some of the confusion.
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Tagged Arabic, Cartography, China, Maps, Tibet, Ukraine
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Travel Between The Pages 