3-D Mappa Mundi
June 18, 2013 8:41 PM Subscribe
Mapping The Newest Old Map Of The World: A full-sized, 3D plaster relief facsimile of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the largest surviving medieval map of the world (Previously).
That's lovely.
I wish the Ordnance Survey would offer this as one of their bespoke mapping options.
posted by dowcrag at 12:29 AM on June 19, 2013
I wish the Ordnance Survey would offer this as one of their bespoke mapping options.
posted by dowcrag at 12:29 AM on June 19, 2013
"Josephine Livingstone is a British person and doctoral candidate at New York University. She likes taking antisocial photos and tweeting whatever. Images are copyright Factum Arte."
Really? I mean, that article all but offered us tea or warm beer to wash its London taxis and giant cathedral in the middle of nowhere down with.
posted by Blasdelb at 1:03 AM on June 19, 2013
Really? I mean, that article all but offered us tea or warm beer to wash its London taxis and giant cathedral in the middle of nowhere down with.
posted by Blasdelb at 1:03 AM on June 19, 2013
I am unable to see my house from here.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:07 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by blue_beetle at 7:07 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
How weird that it's a plaster relief replica. Unless I'm missing something, all of the texture in the hEreford Mappa Mundi is accidental and incidental to the map, a flat image. The material is warped, there's etch marks from inking, etc, but none of that was designed by the map maker. So why replicate it at an an exaggerated scale? To most of us, "relief map" means something with topological relief reflecting mountain shapes; this is something else. Maybe it makes sense as art, but I'm not sure it makes sense as a map.
I'm sad at the heavy-handed criticism of digital maps in a couple of the links. No doubt Google Maps has given us a singularly bland and increasingly commercialized map. But the same digital mapping technology is allowing a whole world of artistic and scientific interpretation of geographic data that's quite exciting. It's a big advance that making a custom map just requires knowledge of writing stylesheets and some cartographic good taste instead of the old tools of geometry, geography, and leather tanning.
posted by Nelson at 8:20 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm sad at the heavy-handed criticism of digital maps in a couple of the links. No doubt Google Maps has given us a singularly bland and increasingly commercialized map. But the same digital mapping technology is allowing a whole world of artistic and scientific interpretation of geographic data that's quite exciting. It's a big advance that making a custom map just requires knowledge of writing stylesheets and some cartographic good taste instead of the old tools of geometry, geography, and leather tanning.
posted by Nelson at 8:20 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
No doubt Google Maps has given us a singularly bland and increasingly commercialized map. But the same digital mapping technology is allowing a whole world of artistic and scientific interpretation of geographic data that's quite exciting.
And this: Japanese Pigeon People Found on Google Maps
posted by homunculus at 7:06 PM on June 24, 2013
And this: Japanese Pigeon People Found on Google Maps
posted by homunculus at 7:06 PM on June 24, 2013
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Reminds me of this modern relic that was a quite a marvel in it's day.
posted by islander at 11:20 PM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]