Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America: The inspiration for this exhibition was the
Library of Congress's collection of literary maps--maps that acknowledge the contributions of authors to a specific state or region as well as those that depict the geographical locations in works of fiction or fantasy. Throughout the exhibition, these colorful and varied maps reflect the contributions of authors to specific states or regions and locate their imagined people and places. Through these maps, authors' words, images, and characters, Language of the Land presents a tapestry of the impressions that endure in our collective imagination of the American land and its culture.
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posted by Fizz
on Mar 31, 2012 -
4 comments
Jerry's Map: a short film about the fictional world of Jerry Gretzinger, which he has been building for decades through a process of procedural cartography.
His website.
posted by avocet
on Aug 24, 2011 -
20 comments
The official Google Earth plugin is one free download that makes all sorts of cool stuff possible in your browser. There's
a full screen version of the program (complete with underwater views and 3D buildings) which can be searched by entering queries at the end of the URL. There's
a framed version with support for layers, historical imagery, day/night cycles, and the Google Sky starmap.
Less useful but more fun are Google's collection of "experiments" demonstrating the possibilities of the Earth API, including
a "Geo Whiz" geography quiz,
an antipode locater,
a 3D first-person view of San Francisco,
a virtual route-follower, and
MONSTER MILKTRUCK!, a crazy fun driving simulator that lets you careen a virtual milk truck through the Googleplex campus, ricochet off the Himalayas, or explore any other place you care to name.
Lots more can be found in the
Google Earth Gallery -- highlights include
a look at mountaintop removal mining,
a real-time flight tracker,
a guide to trails and outdoor recreation,
a 360 panorama catalog,
geotagged Panoramio photos,
and the comprehensive crowdsourced
Google Earth Community Layer.
And while it's too large to view online, don't miss loading
the Metafilter user location map into a desktop version of Google Earth!
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jun 9, 2011 -
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Comic Book Cartography is more than
maps of
make-believe lands. It also covers
cutaways ga-
lore,
robot schematics, and
diagrams of
Batman's utility belt. In the same vein, there was The Marvel Atlas Project (M.A.P.), and though it is now offline,
some pictures have survived. There is also the
two-
part Marvel Atlas, a subset of the
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. The
Atlast of the DC Universe is limited to Earth, (sourced from
the DC Heros RPG book and
Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000), and
Mapping Gotham is a single blog post which collects some maps from Batman's world, as found from a variety of sources.
The Map Room collected a few more, some which
require some
digging into
the archives. [
more,
previously]
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 15, 2010 -
28 comments
Powhatan's Mantle was the emblem of kingship worn by Wahunsenacawh, also known as Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. A deerskin cloak ornamented with shell beadwork, it may at first appear to be only clothing but in fact it is also a map of the Powhatan Confederacy, which ruled most of eastern Virginia when the English first settled there. The mantle was acquired by one of the
John Tradescants whose
collection was the foundation of Oxford University's Ashmolean Collection and the mantle resides there
still today. The
first linked article is a fascination article about the mantle as well as a gallery of images of and related to Powhatan's Mantle.
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 12, 2009 -
5 comments
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.
Worldmapper
posted by y2karl
on Oct 2, 2008 -
28 comments
Wiki City Rome - "
anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."
posted by Gyan
on Sep 7, 2007 -
3 comments
Wired presents an extraordinary look at "
one of the most ambitious search-and-rescue missions in history," after one of Microsoft's researchers,
Jim Gray, and his boat, the
Tenacious, went
missing in the Pacific Ocean outside San Francisco in January 2007. Cartography meets law meets
2.0 technology. "First the Coast Guard scoured 132,000 square miles of ocean. Then a team of scientists and Silicon Valley power players turned the eyes of the global network onto the Pacific." Eventually, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, the US Navy, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium jumped in – "as did astronomers from leading universities." To this day, Jim Gray has
never been found, and his disappearance
cannot be explained. Read
Wired for more.
posted by BLDGBLOG
on Jul 22, 2007 -
35 comments
Finally... something good has come from a newsfilter post! In a trackback to a recent
post on something-or-other (aren't they all the same?) I discovered a gem of a site dedicated to maps.
posted by silusGROK
on Jul 9, 2003 -
11 comments
![The World [Map] According to America](http://www.deevah.com/america.gif){kind=link}