July 2004
- Mythical Geography
- The Philadelphia Print Shop has a page on mythical geography in antique maps: Illusions, Confusions and Delusions. Old maps are filled with inaccuracies — rivers running a wrong course, cities placed incorrectly, coastlines lacking bays, and mountains, lakes and islands…
- Gingerbread Electoral College
- From the Democratic National Convention: an electoral college map where each vote is represented by a gingerbread man….
- Maps on Traffic Control Boxes
- Forty-two traffic control boxes in downtown Victoria, British Columbia have been wrapped in maps of the downtown area. The goal is to combat graffiti — the maps are supposedly easier to clean than the boxes themselves — but the side…
- Garmin iQue 3200
- I covered the release of the Garmin iQue 3600, a Palm OS handheld with a built-in GPS, rather obsessively last year. Now Garmin has announced a slightly cheaper sibling, the iQue 3200, which has a smaller (320×320) screen and lacks…
- Linguistic Atlas
- Though it appears to contain a few mistakes, and the graphics are kind of poor, it’s a neat concept: a so-called Linguistic Atlas of the World that labels each country in its own language and writing system. Via Languagehat (see…
- Boston and Maine; Maine Central
- The Guilford Rail System web site has a page of maps of two of its predecessor railroads: a 1916 map of the Boston and Maine (853 KB JPEG) and a 1923 map of the Maine Central (456 KB JPEG). I…
- Russian, CIS and Baltic Railway Map
- And finally, and somewhat more recently, the last link tonight that I’ve stolen from the Here Be Dragons community at LiveJournal is this doozy of a map of the railroads of the former Soviet Union. Different colours represent different kinds…
- More Lunar Maps
- Also via Here Be Dragons, another fine digital collection of lunar maps, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute. These maps were made by the USAF in the 1960s — back when the U.S. government had a vested interest in accurate…
- Freshwater Lochs of Scotland
- Still working on my backlog of links. Here’s a collection of bathymetric maps — i.e., nautical maps showing soundings (depth) at various points — of Scottish freshwater lochs published in the early 20th Century. The survey was done from 1897…
- Las Vegas Monorail
- Las Vegas’s monorail, which opens July 15, connects several hotels/casinos along the Strip (naturally). Here’s a map of the line. Via Slashdot….
