November 2004
- Memory Mapping
- Megan Hurst writes to tell us about her Memory Mapping project: “Memorymapping.com is a site I co-created which invites visitors to draw maps of places they’ve lived based solely on memory. Their maps are then saved in a database and…
- Keyhole and World Wind
- Joel takes a look at a couple of software packages that do neat things with satellite imagery: Keyhole, which was taken over by Google a while back; and NASA World Wind. They’re Windows-only, so I can’t try them out —…
- World Sunlight Map
- The World Sunlight Map is a neat trick: it shows which parts of the Earth are currently in daylight and which are in darkness. It’s a simulation that begins with composite images of the Earth by day (sans clouds) and…
- Watership Down
- This page on the differences between editions of Richard Adams’s Watership Down also has scans of the different editions’ maps (the 1972 original hardback had something that looks like a UTM grid; the 1973 Puffin paperback had a more traditional…
- Ukrainian Presidential Election
- These maps of Ukraine’s presidential election results (originals here and here) illustrate the problem: suspiciously higher voter turnouts (compared to the first round of voting) and regionally polarized results (though, as Le Sabot Post-Moderne points out, that’s including the questionable…
- Soviet Topo Maps; Old Russian Maps
- Ezra Padoa writes with a few links to collections of Russian/Soviet maps. First off are collections of Soviet military topographical maps. Says Ezra, “I’ve heard that Soviet military cartographers could be tried for treason if they made any mistakes. At…
- Electoral Maps
- Organizational note: the recent posts about the U.S. election results have been moved, along with related older posts, from the News & Politics category to the new Electoral Maps category….
- London Free Map
- The University of Openness (previous entry) has a new project to make copyright-free street maps of London; the page explains the details and MO, but it looks like it’ll involve an awful lot of GPS tracing and GIS data processing…
- Arthur Robinson
- This past week the media reported the death of Arthur Robinson, whose eponymous projection was adopted by the National Geographic Society for its world maps. He died Oct. 10 at the age of 89. Obituaries from the Arizona Republic (reprinting…
- World War II Maps
- A collection of contemporary, black and white World War II maps, provided by the University of San Diego’s History department. Informative: some of the maps cover less-famous theatres of war. Via The Cartoonist….
- Exhibit in Wayland, Mass.
- A small map exhibit at the Wayland Town Building in Wayland, Massachusetts — west of Boston — is running until Dec. 22. It’s called “The Art of Map Making, 1775-2005” and it focuses on local and regional maps; the article…
- A Look at The Map Room’s Traffic
- Site owners are invariably far more interested in their sites’ traffic stats than their readers are, but I hope you won’t mind this brief digression. Have a look at the daily page views (I don’t have discrete daily visitor stats)…
- North Londoners’ Map of London
- After all that election nonsense, now for a bit of fun. Naturally, as a benighted colonist, I don’t get the joke, but here, via The (always nifty) Cartoonist, is London (and the rest of the known universe) as seen by…
- Yet Even Still More U.S. Presidential Election Maps Already
- The deceased equine is yet insufficiently flogged. Wonkette found a couple I hadn’t seen elsewhere: this map showing red and blue percentages by state; and this CBS News map showing the sizes of each county in 3D, which is kind…
- Even More U.S. Presidential Election Maps
- You can’t read political blogs for five minutes without stumbling across another cartographic interpretation of last week’s election results. On the one hand, I’m finding all sorts of cool maps; on the other hand, I have to read political blogs….
- More U.S. Presidential Election Maps
- Election maps definitely have been a popular subject this past week: not only are different maps of the U.S. presidential results popping up all over the web, but traffic at The Map Room has more than tripled since Nov. 2…
- U.S. Election Results Cartogram
- Suresh has computed a cartogram of the election results, in which the counties are warped so that their sizes are proportional to the number of votes cast. (Via Jason. See previous entries: Cartograms and Map Distortions; Electoral Maps Made Proportional.)…
- U.S. Election Results
- The results of the U.S. presidential election have been mapped in a number of ways. For some, there are two Americas, and one of them is, um, Canada — instead of running away to Canada, some think Canada should come…
- Rare Maps of the Aegean
- Rare maps of the Aegean from 1447 to 1800 are on display at an exhibition at the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage — presumably in Athens — this month. I don’t have any other…
- More Satellite Imagery
- A couple of satellite-imagery links from Plep; I don’t think I’ve seen these before. Satellite Images of Earth at Night, from the International Dark-Sky Association. Usually you see night maps of the entire planet (e.g. see previous entry: APOD: The…
- CSPAN’s Election Map
- People blogging the U.S. election tonight say they really like CSPAN’s map of the election results. Mouse over each state for the magic….
- New URL for Tube Map Archive
- The London Tube Map Archive has a new URL, now that sitehouse.net is no longer operative. I don’t know when it happened: I linked to the old address in April 2003; The Cartoonist linked to the new address on Sunday….
- Hereford Mappa Mundi
- Murky writes, “through no prior planning, I stumbled over the mappa mundi this weekend.” Here’s his account of his encounter with the Mappa Mundi in Hereford. (See previous entry: Mappæ Mundi.)…
- Triangulation Pillars
- Another article from Nicholas Crane based on his BBC series, “The Map Man” — this time in the Telegraph. This one’s about the Ordnance Survey’s triangulation pillars, the use of which in surveys eventually resulted in a series of one-inch-scale…
