October 2008
- How Globes Are Made
- The Chicago History Museum looks at Chicago globe manufacturer Replogle Globes in this short video: I always wondered why the seam along the equator had to be so big. Via Kottke….
- Google Earth for the iPhone
- Google Earth for the iPhone is now available. I’ve been playing with it in on my iPod touch this evening. My instant reaction: Google has absolutely nailed the interface — Multi-Touch was meant for Google Earth, and using the accelerometer…
- Elections Canada’s Big Election Results Map
- Further to my previous posts on mapping the results of the recent 2008 Canadian federal elections, here is Elections Canada’s preliminary map of the results. Nothing interactive about it — it’s a print-quality, 4.4-megabyte, 39-megapixel PDF. But I like…
- MapQuest for iPhone
- The folks from MapQuest — remember them? — have released a version of their site optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch; visiting mapquest.com from one of these gadgets will automatically load the appropriate version. I’m afraid I have to…
- London Tube Map Documentary
- A 1987 BBC documentary on Beck’s diagrammatic map of the London Underground; it’s nearly 26 minutes long: Via Kottke and MapHist….
- Times Atlases
- I’ve heard good things about the Times Comprehensive Atlas, the 12th edition of which came out in the U.K. last year; it’s being published in its U.S. version on Tuesday, according to the Amazon page. David Mumford of HarperCollins…
- Atlas Updates
- More coverage of some atlases we’ve already seen: BBC Radio 4’s Today looks at the Worldmapper team’s Atlas of the Real World, a collection of newsworthy cartograms (see previous entry). CNN covers Earth, the 30-kilogram, limited edition, hella-expensive and gigantic…
- Mapping the Santa Barbara Backcountry
- The Santa Barbara Independent looks at a new map of the Santa Barbara backcountry (in California), the Matilija and Dick Smith Wilderness Map Guide, and its creator, Bryan Conant. It’s his second map of the backcountry; the first was…
- Dealing with a Map Thief
- Tony Campbell made an announcement on MapHist a few days ago: “I have today [Oct. 8] posted on the Thefts pages of Map History an account by the map dealer George Ritzlin of his experiences in dealing with Joshua McCarty….
- San Francisco Noise Map
- Via MAPS-L, a noise map of San Francisco (PDF) from the city’s public health department. Previously: Simon Elvins’s “Silent London”; London Noise Map; Noise Map of Paris….
- Earth from Above: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Comes to New York
- An exhibition of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s amazing aerial photography is coming to New York next spring: Earth from Above, the exhibition, will run from May 1 to June 28, 2009, at the World Financial Center Plaza. The Big Picture has a…
- More Canadian Election Maps
- Cedric Sam has put together maps of the 2008 federal election results as Google Earth layers (at right, a screenshot). It’s well done: the riding are coloured to make a choropleth map, and contain pie charts to measure popular…
- The History of the India-China Border
- There’s more to a disputed boundary than just a dotted line on a map; the Indian magazine Frontline looks at the history of the disputed India-China border. (It’s worth noting that you’d be hard pressed to find two countries more…
- Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery: Creative Cartographies
- Creative Cartographies is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery; it runs until January 9, 2009. Influenced by the organization inherent in cartography, the twelve Brooklyn-based artists in BAC Gallery’s latest exhibition, Creative Cartographies, present viewpoints both…
- NGIN Meeting Features Brubaker Case
- On the agenda at the Northwest Government Information Network’s fall meeting on November 7, 2008, according to Carlos Diaz’s e-mail announcement: “The featured program will be To Catch a Map Thief: The WWU Story of Purloined Maps. Rob Lopresti and…
- GPS and the Law
- Beginning in January, Californians will be able to use windshield-mounted GPS units; Minnesota is apparently the only remaining U.S. state that prohibits mounting navigation units on the inside of your windshield. Meanwhile, Egypt is one of only three countries —…
- Historical Electoral College Maps
- 270towin.com has, in addition to an interactive map to play with for 2008, historical electoral college maps from every single U.S. presidential election in history — all the way back to George Washington. I admit, I looked at every…
- L.A. Unfolded
- L.A. Unfolded: Maps from the Los Angeles Public Library opened today at Los Angeles’s Central Library; it runs until January 22. “The exhibition focuses on Los Angeles and California and features topographic surveys, tourist guides, real estate maps, pictorials, illustrations…
- More on Tele Atlas and Google
- Webmapper explores the question of Tele Atlas’s questionable map quality and the reasons why Google may have dropped Navteq for ostensibly poorer map data — a question I raised in this post. An interesting post, but perplexing given its speculative…
- San Francisco Solar Map
- The San Francisco Solar Map is a part of the city’s goal to have 10,000 roofs equipped with solar panels by 2012; it maps current solar installations and provides information for those interested in installing solar panels. Via Vector One;…
- Interactive Maps of the Canadian Federal Election
- The CBC’s map of last night’s federal election results is, I think, much better than the Globe and Mail’s map, simply because you can see the riding boundaries and party colours, and at every zoom level, too. That’s a good…
- It’s Not Harvard’s Map
- Harvard’s experts have concluded that the 1612 Champlain map being offered for auction at Sotheby’s next month is not their missing map. Previously: Harvard’s Missing Map?…
- Harvard’s Missing Map?
- A rare 1612 map of Canada will be auctioned at Sotheby’s next month. Is it the same map that went missing from Harvard University? Harvard discovered that its copy of Samuel de Champlain’s map was missing in 2005, during an…
- Macworld on Geotagging
- Macworld’s Ben Long takes a look at geotagging; it’s another one of those big-picture introductions, briefly noting a couple of cameras with built-in GPS before going on to spend most of its time on software solutions; a couple of gadgets…
