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Archive for January, 2008

A Weather Map of Billy’s Bed

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Map Cartoons, Map History, tagged , , on January 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Deane Powell | Life | December 1, 1910

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Map Symbols: Coastlines

Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged , , on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Ah, the shingly shore…

William McTaggart, A Shingly Shore, oil on canvas, 1904.
The nature of the coast: steep, flat, cliffy, rocky, sandhills, stony, shingly, sandy, mangrove, mud, gravel, coral, breakers, rubble, unsurveyed.
The nautical chart map symbol for a shingly shore is taken from section A of Chart #1, Nautical chart symbols and abbreviations used by U.S. [...]

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Denis Wood: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Maps Made, tagged , , , on January 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood, co-author of Making Maps, has been working on an atlas of the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina since the mid 1970s. The atlas, which has never been published in its entirety, is called Dancing and Singing: A Narrative Atlas of Boylan Heights.
Inspired by Bill Bunge’s radical cartography in the 1960s [...]

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Subversive Cartographies

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Deep Map Thoughts on January 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What are subversive cartographies? This issue is addressed a series of presentations organized by Chris Perkins (University of Manchester) and Jörn Seemann (Louisiana State University) for the upcoming 2008 Association of American Geographers meeting (Boston, April 15-19 2008).
“To be subversive, is to wish to overthrow, destroy or undermine the principles of established orders. As [...]

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