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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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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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Raisz’s History of American Cartography Timelines

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, Map History on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Harvard’s Erwin Raisz (1893-196 was one of the 20th century’s preeminent cartographers (bio, bio, bio). Most people know of his landform maps, which are still in print. Raisz was also responsible for a series of atlases and hundreds of maps in books and academic articles.
In a 1937 article for the journal Isis entitled [...]

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