February 2004
- Geist Exhibition, Media Coverage
- Just received an e-mail from the folks at Geist magazine, whose Caught Mapping feature I’ve written about from time to time here on The Map Room. Among other things, they’re having a gallery show of the Geist maps in April…
- Urbis Romae
- Richard points me to the Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. “This is one of my favourite map stories,” he says. This enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 × 13 meters (ca. 60 × 43 feet), was carved between 203-211 CE…
- Vintage Maps of U.S. Cities
- Members of Tribe.net’s Map Lovers tribe (moderated by yours truly) have posted links to nineteenth- and twentieth-century maps of Boston, New York and San Francisco. Neat stuff….
- Panoramic Maps
- The Library of Congress has an online collection of panoramic maps — i.e., maps seen from a so-called “bird’s-eye view” rather than from directly above. I saw an awful lot of these in archives and libraries when I was doing…
- Madaba Mosaic Map
- “The Madaba Mosaic Map is a unique piece of art realised in 6th cent. A.D. as a decoration for the pavement of a church in the town of Madaba (Jordan) in the Byzantine Near East… . [It] is…
- Kettle Valley Railway
- I’m doing a little research into the Kettle Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the CPR that operated in southern B.C. Joe Smuin prepared a map, which is available online, for his book about the railway….
- The Face of the Moon; Star Atlases
- The Cartoonist has discovered the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, which has quite a bit of stuff on celestial mapping. In addition to an exhibition of rare books and maps called The Face of…
- Tracking Turtles
- The BBC has a story about an online mapping system that tracks the migration and nesting habits of sea turtles and, more significantly, that makes that information available to the public through an interactive viewer. Not that I could make…
- Telephone Area Codes
- This site about North American telephone area codes has a number of maps showing the current and historical area code assignments. With new area codes being added or overlaid all the time, it’s hard to keep up. But here’s a…
- 2000 U.S. Presidential Election
- A map of the vote distribution, by state and electoral college votes, of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, from the FEC. (via Richard)…
- CN Rail Maps
- CN has an interactive map of their rail network on their site. There’s also a series of maps in their shortlines section — shortlines being small railroads formed after a big railroad like CN has sold off parts of its…
- The Dynamap
- Here’s something neat: Urban Mapping’s “Dynamap” technology, which uses interlaced images to show different maps depending on the angle at which the surface is viewed. In this case, Manhattan’s streets, neighbourhoods and subway systems. There’s an instructive Flash demo. About…
- 1946 U.S. Railroad Atlas
- This month’s Fast Company has a profile of Richard Carpenter, who has published the first volume of his Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946. The maps are hand-drawn and hand-lettered; the article provides fascinating details about their creation….
- Geospatial Data
- North American geospatial data is available free from a couple of government sites. For the U.S., there’s the USGS GEO-DATA Explorer (via MetaFilter), and, for Canada, there’s GeoGratis….
- Online Video Game Atlas
- “The Online Video Game Atlas is a site made for video game maps. This site is made possible by gamers who rip or draw maps and contribute them here for others to view.”…
- Anthropomorphic States and Provinces
- An entry from Ian’s blog called Cartophilia: “I like it when states reach for something that they might not deserve. Take Alabama and Mississippi, for instance, both violently sticking out a body part to touch the Gulf of Mexico ….
- Visited States and Countries
- Making the rounds in the weblog world is a tool from World66 that lets you generate a map of U.S. states you’ve visited. If it sounds familiar, it’s because it’s eerily akin to the map of visited countries I mentioned…
