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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What if the world was spherical, but it didn’t matter?
Most of you have been unable to avoid the flat-earth kerfuffle on the day-time talk show The View.
On a recent episode one of the hosts, Sherri Shepherd, said she doesn’t believe the theory of evolution. Whoopi Goldberg, also a host, asked Shepherd “Is the world [...]
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Q: How were all the example maps in Making Maps created?
A: The primary software I used to create Making Maps was Freehand on a Mac. I learned Illustrator and Freehand in versions 1.0 back in the day while working at the Cartographic Lab at UW Madison. I have always liked Freehand better than Illustrator, despite [...]
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Posted in Maps Made on August 4, 2005 | No Comments »
Q: Did you ever make real maps?
A: Denis makes maps, and had some - from his work in progress on the Boylan Heights neighborhood in Raleigh NC - featured on NPR’s This American Life. A few of his maps are linked there but they ain’t great scans. I will get some better ones and post [...]
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