Map Paintings by
Paula Scher: “These are absolutely, one hundred percent inaccurate,” Paula Scher declares of her colossal map paintings. Then, after a pause: “But not on purpose.” Another pause: they’re actually “sort of right.” [
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posted by dhruva
on Nov 12, 2007 -
10 comments
EveryScape launched this morning. It's a ground-level mapping service similar to Google's "Street View", only it offers you an "autodrive" feature that automatically moves you through a city or down a ski slope. There are links to information about stores and restaurants in the view and the ability to go inside buildings and look around. It currently features views from
Aspen,
New York,
Boston, and
Miami. And of course the obligatory view of
a colorful mime with a man-bag. [
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posted by cashman
on Oct 29, 2007 -
12 comments
Antique Maps of China A database of 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases from the Special Collections of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. You can browse thumbnails of maps dating back to the 15th century, then download a splendid colour PDF, for example, the 1923 map
Carte des environs de Peking. There are also some
world maps and ones of a few other
places.
posted by Abiezer
on Oct 15, 2007 -
13 comments
Brazilian Ethnomapping: Inside a thatched-roof schoolhouse in a village deep in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, Surui Indians and former military cartographers huddle over the newest weapons in the tribe's fight for survival: laptop computers,
satellite maps and hand-held global positioning systems.
Some of the
resulting maps.
posted by dhruva
on Oct 11, 2007 -
6 comments
If you like looking at maps of imaginary places, you should take a peek at the
Fantasy Atlas, a German-language collection of maps of literary fantasy and sci-fi worlds. For a more obsessive (but just as interesting) take on maps of imaginary places, you can check out
the work of Adrian Leskiw, who's been creating road maps of non-existent places since the age of 3.
(Previously on Metafilter.)
posted by dersins
on Aug 1, 2007 -
31 comments
Bugaboo Daytrips is a gorgeous site featuring 22 strollable daytrips in major cities worldwide (not just US Only), all laid out on beautiful artistic (yet still helpful) maps with downloadable PDFs for taking with you on your wanderings.
For those terrified of being marketed to, it should be noted that Bugaboo is a baby stroller company, although the site is by no means of restricted interest to parents only, and bugbaoo's presence on the site seems confined to the URL. Also note that unfortunately for those alergic to it, the site is designed entirely in Flash. On the other hand, the maps & art are really awesome, so you should do yourself a favor & get over it this time.
Via.
posted by jonson
on Jun 26, 2007 -
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Waymarking.com provides tools for you to catalog, mark and visit interesting and useful locations around the world. It's a fun site, packed with photographs, information and maps; a useful
resource and
tool for GeoCaching and
other interests. Among the
various categories included is
Oddball Museums: The
Glore Psychiatric Museum, Musee
Mechanique, The National
Plastics Museum with lots of great pics and links to
other sites, Museum of
Burlesque [nsfw], The Leavenworth
Nutcracker Museum, Orange
Show, wbur Museums of
Dirt,
Plumbing, Antiquated
Technology,
Lizzie Borden and more
oddities.
posted by nickyskye
on May 26, 2007 -
5 comments
Since 1867,
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps have been used to assess fire insurance liability in United States cities. With their high level of detail and color-coding to indicate the materials used to construct the buildings, the maps have since become invaluable tools to historians, urban planners, preservationists, and genealogists. A few collections of cities and states have been
digitized and made available online:
Utah,
South Carolina,
Georgia, and
Florida to name a few.
posted by marxchivist
on May 24, 2007 -
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The Global Terrorism Database is now available online. It includes information on more than 27,000 bombings, 13,000 assassinations, and 2,800 kidnappings. With 2D and 3D georeferences for some incidents. The interactive map isn't working for me though.
posted by tellurian
on May 24, 2007 -
18 comments
What if all the online communities were drawn on a map?
Here's what it might look like. I guess
we are off the world's end though.
posted by ShawnString
on May 2, 2007 -
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Who's feeling sick? Probably a whole lot of people around you by the looks of this service, which tracks illness around the country as people report their symptoms.
Mostly US and European-centric at this stage, but as more people around the world report their symptoms that can begin to change.
posted by Effigy2000
on Apr 26, 2007 -
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For anyone with even a passing interest in Islamic history or cartography,
'The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes' site at Oxford University's Bodleian Library will provide a thoroughly interesting timesink. This recently discovered 13th/14th century copy of an 11th century Egyptian manuscript was partly based on Ptolemy and includes the oldest rectangular map of the world...not to mention the famed human-bearing
Waq-Waq tree.
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posted by peacay
on Apr 5, 2007 -
7 comments
Imaginary places in detail: Start with a wonderful
overview of megastructures in science fiction and examine a
dictionary of 76 locations from recent fantasy novels. Then move on to the interactive maps:
Mordor,
Narnia, the Simpson's
Springfield,
England as seen in many stories,
New York in fiction, Lovecraft's
New England, maps from almost
any video game,
Star Trek, the
Marvel Universe, and the
DC Universe.
posted by blahblahblah
on Feb 21, 2007 -
29 comments
