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who are map lovers?

wendy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:38:03 GMT

Hello,

I am a student from Holland working on a project about the Atlas Blaeu. I need to organise an exhibition in Amsterdam and with that i need to attract people. My question is.. what kind of people (age, gender, occupation, nationality, etc) are interested in these kinds of exhibitions? I am trying to find out the target group so i can start my research of how attracting them.. I hope anyone can help me with this! Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Wendy Kok

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Atlas of Radical Cartography exhibit

flaneuse — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:24:22 GMT

This looks kewl:
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Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. The map is inherently political-- and the contributions to this book wear their politics on their sleeves.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography provides a critical foundation for an area of work that bridges art/design, cartography/geography, and activism. The maps and essays in this book provoke new understandings of networks and representations of power and its effects on people and places. These new perceptions of the world are the prerequisites of social change.

An Atlas of Radical Cartography
news and events, April 2008

http://www.an-atlas.com

EVENTS
Public Release!!
Sunday, April 20 7-10pm
Presented by the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and Routes & Methods
Echo Park, Los Angeles
Books, tacos, performances, in the Vons parking lot!
http://www.an-atlas.com/PublicRelease.pdf

EXHIBITIONS
Cortland, NY
Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland
March 25 –May 5
http://www.cortland.edu/art/html/gallery.html

Troy, NY
The Sanctuary for Independent Media
April 25- June 7
Reception Friday, April 25
http://www.thesanctuaryforindependentmedia.org/node/139

PRESENTATIONS
April 15: Lucy Parsons Center, Boston
7:00 pm

April 17: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston
1pm

April 17: Athaneum Library, La Jolla
7:30 pm http://www.ljathenaeum.org/lectures.html

April 18: Farmlab, Los Angeles
12:00 pm http://farmlab.org/2007/12/farmlab-public-salon-alexis-bhagat.html

April 22: Panel discussion, DOWD Gallery, SUNY Cortland
With Mark Monmonier, Scott Anderson, Gail Wood, Lex Bhagat, Lize Mogel,
4:45 pm http://www.cortland.edu/art/html/gallery.html

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OLD PULL DOWN MAPS FROM 30'S IN ORIGINAL OAK WALL CASE

joseph — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:15:11 GMT

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL OLD OAK MAP CABINET WITH THE ORIGINAL OLD PULL DOWN MAPS ..IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.. CAME FROM AN OLD SCHOOL THAT MY GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT IN IN THE 30'S...NINE ORIGINAL PULL DOWN MAPS INSIDE EACH SEPARATELY ROLLED WITH THE ORIGINAL OAK ROLLERS. VERY NEAT ITEM HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE LIKE THIS COMPLETE AND ALL...I AM GOIN GTO SELL THIS IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED...

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Fun web game for map lovers

flaneuse — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:20:46 GMT

Here's a geography "game" my sister sent me -- it's basically an animation to see if you can identify particular place locations. It was interesting, though I'm embarrassed that I didn't do as well as I expected...

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>Can you land your plane in the designated country?

http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/useugame2007/html/play.html

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Paris GIS

jmparker — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:12:21 GMT

Ok. This is my dream.
I have a whole list of 20 or so addresses, and I want to type them into a computer and have them show up as dots on a map of Paris.
So I don't have to do it by hand by estimating with a magic marker on a badly photocopied hand-out.
Any suggestions?

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Google Maps Driving Me Crazy

Phoenix — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:52:35 GMT

Aloha, anyone have any sort of knowledge about Google Maps. And/or Google Earth? I've got the file saved properly in Google Earth. When I input into New Maps in Google Maps, and then click on placemarks, data shifts from one placemark to another.

If there is someone I can talk to on the phone, or hang out with for 30 minutes, it would help a lot. Mahlo, Phoenix

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Help and Advice?

hentrix — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:52:18 GMT

I recently got my GIS certificate from SFSU and have been applying for jobs for about 3 months and haven't gotten even one interview. I spent 7 years in publishing and have lots of project management experience just no practical GIS experience.

I'm not too familiar with the GIS job world, I am having no trouble finding gourds of jobs but I can't get a bite. I send out a resume, thoughful cover letter, and link to some map samples. Am I missing something? Any words or wisdom for this newby?

Thanks in advance!!!!

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Hello from: Laptop GPS World (www.laptopgpsworld.com)

Marvin Hlavac — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:01:18 GMT

Hello Everyone :)

This is a cool tribe!

I'd like to bring to your attention a new (non-commercial) website I started a couple of months ago. It is devoted to reviewing and discussing GPS software programs that run on laptop, TabletPC, ans Ultra-Mobile PC platforms.

Link to the reviews of the mapping and GPS programs: http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/software-general-discussions/37-list-pc-gps-navigation-programs-reviews.html

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Marvin Hlavac
Laptop GPS World
www.laptopgpsworld.com

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Another site: WorldMapper

flaneuse — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:11:45 GMT

FYI: "Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters."

http://www.worldmapper.org/

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Scans of old maps

flaneuse — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:30:24 GMT

FYI:

http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl

Contains a large number of old maps from all around the world.

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Geographer maps terrain of the soul

Kathleen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:59:06 GMT

Adrift in the world, professor Yi-Fu Tuan anchored himself as a pioneer in his field

By MARK JOHNSON
markjohnson@journalsentinel.com

Posted: June 23, 2007

The young geographer would tell strangers he was hunting uranium. In 1952, that explanation seemed more understandable than the truth about what he was doing in the desert.

Who would believe the broad, flat rocks called pediments had led this slender man, 98 pounds, into Arizona's San Pedro River Valleyto map remote country under a blazing sun? At night, he camped out in a beat-up Ford coupe, and read by Coleman lamp until, tired, he pulled down the seats and slept with his head by the steering wheel, his feet stretched back into the trunk.

Decades before Yi-Fu Tuan became one of America's pre-eminent geographers, before he came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught students to think about landscape in new ways, the Chinese native slept outside ghost towns. The dark outlines of buildings, human places eerily devoid of humans, sometimes scared him. He dreamed of ghostly figures wandering toward him.

One night he heard hooves.

Twin shotgun barrels poked through the Ford's window and a rancher on horseback demanded: What are you doing on my property? The startled geographer apologized and told the rancher his business - not the story about uranium hunting. He was just a graduate student from California come to learn from the desert. The rancher let him stay.

The truth was Tuan loved it there, the miles of mesquite and cactuses, the clean, sweet smell of sun-baked desert plants. People speak of "love at first sight," and mean another human.

Tuan fell in love with a place.

The geographer would talk about loving places; when it came to loving people, he kept silent.

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Today, at 76, Tuan has officially retired from the field he helped to pioneer, humanist geography. During a long career, he broadened the study of places by leading geographers back to the human eyes that see and interpret those places.

But it was a lonely quest. In one of the few articles ever written about him, The Chronicle of Higher Education said Tuan "may be the most influential scholar you've never heard of."

In retirement, he still writes books (one was published in March, and two more are in various stages). Every day, even Christmas and New Year's, he walks the mile from his Madison apartment to his office on the third floor of Science Hall. He trudges through snow, a backpack slung over his narrow shoulders as if he were a student, and not a white-haired professor emeritus.

And he still uses geography to delve deep into the mind, somewhere the old textbooks with their lists of cities, crops and mountain ranges never went. The mental landscape he travels has no boundaries.

"In my 16 years as a resident in Madison I've sat almost daily in the lakefront café of the Memorial Union and watched the changing scenes over Lake Mendota ," he wrote in a letter from a 2002 collection. "Only yesterday, however, did it occur to me to wonder what I would see if I were a submersible at the bottom of the lake's cold, murky depths where sunlight never penetrates. And I'm a geographer! How extraordinarily limited and conventional one's perception is. We are very much creatures of the surface, condemned to superficiality (even in the imagination and thought)."

In fact, Tuan never let himself rest at the surface.

A half-century ago he ventured into the desert and met what he would call "my geographical double," a place of uncluttered beauty and open space, but also of barrenness and isolation.

There, Tuan found his inspiration for ideas on the human response to landscape: the fear or comfort that wells up inside us at the sight of a dark forest or a wide open plain. He began to create his own vision of geography, blending philosophy, art, psychology, religion and other disciplines to produce books with grand themes such as "Place, Art and Self."

"To Yi-Fu, geography is about a set of moral questions: who we are; how we should live in the world; how we should relate to the natural world and to ourselves; and what constitutes the good life," said Denis Cosgrove, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Such moral questions are not to be confused with issues such as global warming, the domain of environmental geographers. Tuan focused instead on subtler ways in which man transforms the natural world to suit his tastes. Humans shape garden hedges into swans. They raise animals as pets and force water to dance in fountains.

With such an approach, Tuan plowed new territory, largely by himself. Though admired by many geographers (this spring, colleagues named one of his articles the most significant in the 90-year history of the journal Geographical Review), he was imitated by few.

"I've developed my own way of thinking, but I'm always looking over my shoulder at what he's doing," said David Harvey, perhaps America's best-known geographer, now a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York.

In his own thinking, Tuan displayed unusual rigor, copying quotations and ideas from the books he read into elegant hardcover journals. Over the years, he filled 42 of these journals, each containing more than 200 pages of meticulous script and as precious to him as a wedding ring might be to a colleague.

"One of the things I fear losing the most is one of these books," he said, "because it's a whole life of reading and thinking that's gone."

But living so completely in a world of ideas proved a hard bargain. For one part of life to be so full, another had to go empty.

"There are two Yi-Fu Tuans," said Kevin Warnke, a former UW student who lived with Tuan for five months. "The brilliant, courageous, revolutionary professor. And the shy, lonely, anxious, hurt man who hates the thought of growing older alone, more isolated from society, no longer capable of remembering anecdotes, names, events, and eventually no longer able to take care of himself."

Both personalities found expression in the desert: the inspiration for his ideas, but also the mirror revealing something barren and nomadic in himself.

Tuan would write: "Socially I am likewise adrift for a simple reason - I am single. The one portable soil - family - in which an individual is given natural grounding is not available to me."

Although the desert suited this solitary life, he finally settled in the rolling hills of the Midwest, a place he called "a family landscape." He last saw the desert 25 years ago.

After Tuan retired in 1998, he wrote his autobiography, "Who Am I?" He published a book of his letters to colleagues. He wrote a travelogue about a visit to China, published this year. He wrote a book on religion, not yet in print. And then he started what may be his final book, on human goodness.

Over the years the geographer's focus on place became for Tuan an image in the rearview mirror, receding gradually as he journeyed down other roads.

"This is how life progresses," he said recently. "We all end up abandoning place. We die."

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In popular imagination, geographers embody what Cosgrove called "a hairy-chested masculinity." They are hale, virile types, men like Robert Peary, who discovered the North Pole and was awarded one of the American Geographical Society's highest honors, the Cullum Medal.

Tuan was the antithesis, a man so slight he was recruited by the rowing team at Oxford for the role of coxswain (though he lacked the other important qualification, a drill sergeant's gift for barking commands).

In 1951, he boarded a train in New York and headed west past the famed 100th Meridian , the invisible line in the Great Plains that separates the moist, closed-in landscape of the eastern United States from the arid, expansive West.

From the train window, Tuan not only saw the West's "Big Sky," he felt it liberating him.

"This is the American Dream that you go west," he said. "That's your future."

Bound for the University of California at Berkeley , he told himself he was finished with the Old World.

To that point, Tuan's life had been rootless, a series of new people in a string of new places his family called "home": Tianjin; Nanjing; Shanghai; Kunming; Chongqing; Canberra; Sydney; Manila; London; Oxford. The endless moving burned into Tuan a temperament suited to geography, and to the desert.

"I have a dread - more than other people - of disorientation," he said.

The dread gripped him the first time he entered the rain forest as a teenager in the Philippines. It grips him still some evenings as he drives through Madison's dark maze of streets, lost and on the verge of stopping the car in despair.

Geography gave him a context for these feelings. The desert answered them, providing the long, clear view that rain forests and city streets denied him. The place soothed his fears and nourished his appetite for deep, philosophical questions.

The interest in philosophy stretched back to childhood when he'd had an unusual dream. In the dream, he was not being chased by monsters or fighting dragons. He was thinking. He was thinking that he was alive, and that being alive had one consequence. It meant he would die. The knowledge made him sweat and struggle until he woke up.

A decade later in the desert, Tuan came across cattle skulls, bleached white and smoothed by sun and sand.

"If that's what death means, so clean," he said, "I don't mind it so much."

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In the San Pedro River Valley, rattlesnake country, Tuan found himself craving human contact. He could work alone in that "lunar beauty" for no more than five days at a stretch before returning to the run-down boarding house in Tucson that he used as his base in the early 1950s. Eventually, a colleague from Berkeley, David Harris, began accompanying him on his research.

Ten years passed. Tuan wrote his dissertation, taught at Indiana University , then moved to a job at the University of New Mexico . He went back into the desert with his old friend. Harris was now married and the father of two little girls. Except for the job, Tuan's circumstances were unchanged.

Watching Harris and his family, he observed that they were always "in place" in the world, because they had each other - they had "community."

"You can't have a community of one," Tuan said.

In the autumn of 1964, Landscape magazine published his first major article, "Mountains, Ruins and the Sentiment of Melancholy." Although mountains were a familiar subject in geographical journals, Tuan's opening sentences announced a new, literary approach. He focused on the way we view these dramatic features of the landscape and even use them in our poetry to evoke sadness.

"Mountains," he wrote, "are erosional ruins. They are the bare stumps of their former selves. They shall be leveled down."

Four years later, he examined another response to the natural world in his book, "The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God." The hydrologic cycle is the process by which oceans produce clouds that pass over mountains, depositing rain and feeding rivers that flow back into oceans. Tuan, now teaching at the University of Toronto, wrote of the cycle's "beautiful economy of means and ends," explaining why it made sense that men would view this as evidence of "a wise and provident God."

As his reputation flourished, he moved from Toronto to the University of Minnesota. There, Tuan resurrected an obscure word from a poem by W.H. Auden and made it the title of his best-known work, the 1974 book "Topophilia" (from the Greek words topos, meaning "place," and philia, meaning "love of"). The idea for a book about the love of place stemmed from the deep kinship he'd felt with the desert.

While writing "Topophilia," Tuan realized the existence of an equally powerful, but opposite force - a topophobia, or fear of places. This became the subject of his 1979 book, "Landscapes of Fear."

"In a sense," he wrote, "every human construction - whether mental or material - is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists to contain chaos. . . . Every dwelling is a fortress built to defend its human occupants against the elements; it is a constant reminder of human vulnerability."

After 15 years in Minnesota, Tuan moved once again, his own version of a midlife crisis.

"There is not a cloud in the sky, except for the distant thunder cloud of senility and death," he explained. "That, precisely, is the problem."

Other male faculty members dealt with midlife problems by divorcing their wives. Tuan viewed his move to UW in 1983 as something similar, a divorce in favor of a fresh, young partner - one who had been courting him.

With his next book, Tuan moved even further from conventional geography. "Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets" was a radical twist on the theme of man transforming nature. Geographers usually examine the ways we change nature for economic reasons, for example, digging into a mountain to extract coal. Tuan surprised colleagues by looking instead at the way humans adopt animals as pets - an act that shows our twin desires to dominate and love our fellow creatures.

Despite his penchant for working outside the mainstream, the mainstream embraced him. In 1987, the American Geographical Society awarded him its Cullum Medal, the same honor given to Peary, the polar explorer.

Tuan had come to embody an alternative to the rugged mountaineer geographer - the classroom sage. He wore a coat and tie to lectures. He played no music, showed no movies, displayed no visual images. In time, he even dispensed with maps. Students seemed to require no more of him than ideas.

Years later some would describe Tuan as almost an oracle.

"People never came in late, never left early. They never sat at the back of the class and chatted with their friends. He had their absolute attention," recalled Steven Hoelscher, a former student who now teaches in the departments of American studies and geography at the University of Texas.

"There was something about him that was distant. Students wouldn't dare interrupt him."

Outside class, Tuan was generous with his time, often sitting in coffeehouses with students, discussing the pianist Glenn Gould or his childhood hero, Sherlock Holmes.

Karen Till, one of his former students, recalled that Tuan often treated students to dinner and some, in turn, took him on outings to places such as Devil's Lake State Park in Baraboo. Students knew, she said, that "Yi-Fu doesn't get out." They felt protective of him.

"I did feel a sadness," said Till, who now teaches geography at the University of Minnesota. "I knew he wasn't married. It seemed to me he kept his personal life very private."

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The man who knew and loved landscape was on shakier ground when it came to the landscape of the self.

He once wrote that he must have been quite lonely as a child, for he imagined often what it would be like to be someone else. In at least one sense, it could scarcely have been harder than being himself.

In adolescence, before he knew the word for it, Tuan noticed the first stirrings of attraction. But it was only later as a graduate student that he understood the way his heart leaned and the life it would mean. He knew how disapproving his father could be, had seen the old man's shock when a colleague took them to a play about Oscar Wilde.

To be homosexual, and especially to be labeled as such, "would make life difficult, if not miserable," Tuan thought. He felt love, but to act on it, he decided, "was out of the question." He could not be that person.

Decades passed, and he told no one his secret. He devoted himself to work, setting no boundaries there. Over the years, though, the cost of his choice became clear as one by one, friends settled into family life. No matter how close he felt to these friends, he knew that even in the smallest matters - whether to attend one of his lectures or help a son with homework - they would always choose their families over him.

In his office, Tuan kept a photo gallery of former students and their children.

"Like he'd adopted us," said Tim Cresswell, a former student who now teaches human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

As the years went by, although attitudes toward homosexuality loosened, Tuan's self-imposed prohibition did not. In middle age, he felt it was too late to act. He would think himself no better than "a dirty old man." Moreover, there loomed the possibility he might fall in love with a student, something he feared would tarnish all he'd accomplished as a teacher.

In the end, he did what he'd always done. Each day he reported to the office decorated with photographs of other people's families. He taught. He wrote his books.

On Dec. 12, 1997, six months before his official retirement, Tuan taught his final class, telling friends that it was time to move aside and make way for younger geographers. Two years later he wrote his autobiography, choosing that moment to reveal his sexuality.

He did not wish to die carrying this secret, he explained. The life of the mind is about disclosure.

In Tuan's field, the disclosure "was commented upon, but didn't raise eyebrows or make people re-evaluate his work," Cosgrove said. Karen Till read her old teacher's book and found it "enormously brave," yet filled with sadness.

Tuan offered no cover stories, as he had years ago when explaining his presence in the desert. Faced with two complex loves, the geographer had chosen one.

"The flesh had its yearnings," he wrote, "but to an extraordinary degree the yearnings were subordinated to the charms and mysteries of the non-human earth."

A study of people and places

Humanist geography takes a broad approach to examining the way we relate to the world around us. The humanist geographer is interested in our cultural, social, psychological and moral behavior. In examining China, for example, a humanist geographer would go well beyond the traditional interest in economic factors to examine architecture, the aesthetic landscape, the love of nature and the moral nature of the Chinese as distinct from other groups. Based on membership in the Association of American Geographers, it's estimated there are more than 8,000 humanist geographers in the U.S.

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My maps for you

Jonathan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:47:22 GMT

In case you've not found this here are a load of my maps I've scanned in for others to enjoy:

http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html

Let me know what you think.

Jonathan

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Map-based Art Show in LA this Summer

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:48:23 GMT

Below are details to a show I am going to be in Santa Monica. All the participating artists incorporate maps and/or do map-themed work.

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ZOOM
A group exhibition that explores how artists locate meaning
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 30 from 7 - 9 pm
June 30 to August 17, 2007

arena1
Santa Monica Art Studios
3026 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: 310.397.7449 Fax: 310.397.7459
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 12 to 6
info - http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/

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map help

heidski — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:59:42 GMT

i'd like to have a bulletin-board sized map of my neighborhood (Lake Merritt, Oakland area) and plot various trees (color code etc). Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this?

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GIS

jmparker — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:05:20 GMT

I'm not exactly sure what this is, but my geographer friend said I need one for the project I'm working on, about Paris.
Any idea where to find one?
Or does someone have to make it for me?

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Can He Get There From Here? (article)

flaneuse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:00:18 GMT

One man takes on redesigning the NYC subway map!

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April 22, 2007 New York Times
Urban Tactics: Can He Get There From Here?
By Rachel Corbett

IT was 5 p.m., and Eddie Jabbour knew that taking the subway would be faster than dealing with traffic. Cars would be backed up all the way from his office near the Empire State Building to the SoHo restaurant where he was taking an out-of-town client. But as the two descended the subway steps, his client confessed that he has always been intimidated by New York’s subway system.

“It’s a labyrinth,” Mr. Jabbour agreed. “It’s just a hole in the ground, and the hole is a maze.”

After they boarded the train, Mr. Jabbour tried to locate their route on the map inside the subway car. “That’s when it came to me,” he said. “It’s the map! The map is the last vestige of the old system. If you can’t read the map, you can’t use the subway.”

Since that day nearly five years ago, Mr. Jabbour, a 54-year-old co-owner of a marketing company, has devoted his weekends and evenings to studying old transit maps in an effort to produce one of his own. Persuading the city to adopt his new map, which he says is more stylized than the current map and therefore more accessible to non-New Yorkers, has become something of an obsession.

“The map is an icon of the city; it represents New York on a certain level,” said Mr. Jabbour, a small, restless man who was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and lives in Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County. “And it takes a cryptic archaeologist to read this one. It’s like the Rosetta Stone.”

A self-proclaimed “subway foamer,” or buff, Mr. Jabbour has a passion for transit-related subjects like infrastructure, routes and track design.

“It’s definitely his passion,” his 17-year-old daughter, Ellie, said of his map, adding that nearly every weekend he prints out a new version and asks her opinion on alterations she has trouble even seeing, like “slight modulations in subway line thicknesses or color changes.”

The other day, in his minimalist office, Mr. Jabbour pinned two maps to the wall, then pointed to the different renderings of the Atlantic Avenue terminal in Brooklyn, which he says is the most difficult station to represent because so many subway lines converge there. In Mr. Jabbour’s map, the subway lines run parallel to one another, making the map easier to read, if slightly inaccurate. Each line is marked with a circle bearing the route’s letter or number, instead of the oblong station markers used on the current map.

There are other differences. Unlike the official map, Mr. Jabbour’s map does not have a single line representing all the trains in a “cluster” route, like the 1, 2 and 3 trains in Manhattan. He used the same type font throughout, and words travel left to right, rather than diagonally, as on much of the official map. The lines bend only in 45- and 90-degree angles, to create a gridlike pattern.

In the eyes of Mr. Jabbour, the New York system is too complicated to layer on information like commuter rail and bus routes, as the current map does. He would like to see a map that is singularly devoted to the subway.

That map, created in 1979 by Michael Hertz (who was officially credited with the design) and John Tauranac (who was chairman of the map committee), in turn replaced the highly conceptual map created by the Italian graphic designer Massimo Vignelli. Mr. Vignelli’s map was aesthetically pleasing but geographically inaccurate; it depicted Central Park as a square rather than the rectangle it is, for example, and offered riders no sense of where they would be once they left a subway station.

When the current map was adopted, the subway system was decidedly unpopular. The trains were dirty, and riders associated the graffiti-covered cars with crime, often rightly so. Mr. Jabbour sees the current map as tainted by those perceptions. The subways improved dramatically in the 1990s, and in his opinion, the map needs a similarly ambitious face-lift.

Mr. Jabbour’s interest in subway maps began when he studied abroad in London in the mid-1970s while earning a degree in design from Syracuse University. Eager to explore the city and even get lost in it, he immediately recognized how easy it was to navigate the city’s Underground. The “tube” map, an acknowledged masterpiece in the field, was Mr. Jabbour’s main inspiration for his current project.

HE planned to continue working on a hybrid of the two previous designs until he was satisfied that his mother, “a woman from the Midwest,” could read the map. Then, three years ago, Mr. Jabbour briefly acquired a larger audience. His name had been mentioned in a newspaper article about the design of the city’s subway map, and his map was posted on foamer blogs like Live From the Third Rail. Hoping to seize the moment, he contacted the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and to his surprise, designers from the agency agreed to meet with him.

But when he showed up at the agency’s Midtown offices with copies of his work, they were quick to find fault with it. According to Christopher Boylan, the transportation authority’s executive director of corporate and community affairs, who recalled the meeting, the main criticism was that Mr. Jabbour’s map, like Mr. Vignelli’s, was artistic but geographically inaccurate.

“He’s a good designer and it’s an interesting map,” Mr. Boylan said. “The design is important, but the thing we’re concerned with is the best directional guidance. We design a map for use, not solely to look good, and we think it looks good.”

Mr. Jabbour has since made some adjustments in his map, like removing color-coded neighborhood labels. But he refuses to shelve his project altogether.

And his map is helping at least a few people navigate the system. He makes copies for anyone who asks, and he says the map is used regularly by his friends, his children and, of course, his mother.

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Old Maps of Oakland

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:47:35 GMT

The Oakland Library has recently scanned and posted a few hundred old photos and in the mix are images of a number of old maps of Oakland. They are fairly high res so you can see a lot of detail.

This link should take you there http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5b69q5bc

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folding maps out of National Geographic

jmparker — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:46:44 GMT

Anyone know what these normally go for?
I was at a bookstore today and they had a stack of them. I was going to get them, but they were charging about 4 dollars each! They weren't even old - say 10 years at the most.
What's a normal price for these? They're great maps, but.... jeez.

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Google Maps Mania

tracy_the_astonishing — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:41:52 GMT

Is anyone else a fan of the Google maps mania blog?

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/11/platial-gives-you-google-maps.html

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Cartographer\GIS Job

Gabriel — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:33:11 GMT

http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=49209614&AVSDM=2006%2D10%2D17+14%3A01%3A17&Logo=0&q=cartographer&FedEmp=N&sort=rv&vw=d&brd=3876&ss=0&FedPub=Y&SUBMIT1.x=51&SUBMIT1.y=25&SUBMIT1=Search+for+Jobs

CARTOGRAPHER GS-1370-7/9

SALARY RANGE: 36,671.00 - 58,318.00 USD per year OPEN PERIOD: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
to Wednesday, November 01, 2006
SERIES & GRADE: GS-1370-07/09
POSITION INFORMATION: Full Time Career/Career Conditional
PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 12
DUTY LOCATIONS: few vacancies - Northern Virginia, VA
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED:
U.S. Citizens and Status Candidates

JOB SUMMARY:

Love your country? We, at the Department of Interior (DOI), do too! The DOI is devoted to protecting and preserving the resources of this great nation, including National Parks and Landmarks, natural resources, and the well-being of communities, including those of Native American, Alaska Natives and affiliated Islanders.

The Offshore Mapping and Boundary Branch (MBB) of Minerals Management Service (MMS) are looking for a hard-working, ambitious person interested in advancement through progressive knowledge and experience. The full-performance level of this position is a GS-12!

If selected for this position you will have the opportunity to assist with the support of the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and provide technical support to Headquarters, the Geographer’s Office of the National Ocean Service (NOW), Coastal Service Center, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), private industry, and academia to name a few. You just don’t get the opportunity for this exposure everyday.

You will also have the opportunity to work with, digital Official Protraction Diagrams, Leasing Maps, Planning Area Maps, Five-year Plan graphics, Sand and Gravel Program, Alternative Energy initiatives, and a variety of special graphics and datasets. And you will assist with the development of metadata and associated standards to facilitate data collection, documentation, maintenance, access, and dissemination. And the opportunities keep coming! Apply today before it is too late!

If selected for this position you will have the opportunity to provide support for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and provide technical support to Headquarters, the Geographer’s Office of the National Ocean Service (NOW), Coastal Service Center, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), private industry, and academia to name a few.

You will also have the opportunity to serve as the Division and Branch expert and provide training support to both as well as various MMS organizational elements concerning automated cartographic and mapping activities, and you will represent the branch and/or agency at professional scientific meetings, work on task force assignments, and special assignments as requested. This is a huge opportunity: Apply today!

This position is located in Herndon, VA, and requires a potential 15-20 days per month of travel and possible extended periods of travel primarily to Lakewood, Co during the first year.

Relocation Expenses WILL BE paid.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

* U.S. Citizenship

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Old Topo Maps of Los Angeles

Wed, 25 May 2005 14:39:29 GMT

Lately, I've been doing a lot of research into old maps of LA. I've posted in the photo album a scan of a USGS topo map of the westside dating back from 1900. It's very interesting (at least to me) how the modern street patterns follow old Spanish land grant lines, railroads that are long gone, and of course the topography. I also found a full color 1939 land planning map that shows every lot in the city and its land use. To my eye, it looks like art!

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Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling: July '07

flaneuse — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:10:40 GMT

Just passing this announcement along:

-------------------------------------------------------
The Second ICA Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
Spatial Structure and Dynamics of Urban Environments
12-13 July 2007, Athens, GA, USA

http://www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/xyao/Workshop2007/

Background and Scope:
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) workshop series aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present leading edge research findings, exchange ideas, and stimulate new research efforts around geospatial analysis and modeling. Following the first workshop held in Vienna, Austria in July 2006, the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia and the ICA Working Group on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling are delighted to announce the second in the workshop series.

The upcoming workshop focuses particularly on the spatial dimensions of urban systems. Urban environments are central to human lives and activities, and they are changing dramatically due to the continuous trend of urbanization. Modern cites are facing a series of problems such as increasing traffic congestion and urban sprawl, which need coordinated research to address. The increasing availability of movement information collected through mobile devices also stimulates more research on urban environments at various levels of spatial granularity.

We solicit papers about formal models, methods, theories, and their applications to spatial problems that involve spatial structures and dynamics of urban environments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Agent-based modeling and simulation
* Cellular automata modeling
* Small world modeling and topological analysis
* Urban land use change and transportation modeling
* Real time city and location-based services
* Time geography and temporal modeling
* Urban morphology and structural analysis
* Virtual city and artificial life
* Spatio-temporal data mining

Submission:
All manuscripts should be in length of about 5000 - 6000 words, written in English, single column, and single-spaced with figures and tables within the text. The manuscripts should contain author affiliations and emails, abstract of about 300 words, and up to five keywords. We prefer Microsoft Word format. Please address all correspondence about the workshop to xyao@uga.edu or bin.jiang@polyu.edu.hk.

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Setting Precision in the X/Y Domain

Xander — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:09:44 GMT

Hi Tribe

I am a GIS Administrator for a county in Georgia.

I have managed to set up SDE and I am loading raster datasets in currently.

What I am wondering about is precision levels.

I have decided on a precision of 100 for my data. The map units are feet, so that woudl make the storage untis 1/100 of a foot. Good enough for (local) gov't work, as the saying goes... I think that will be good. If anybody has another suggestion, please let me know.

Also, in the raster catalog, you can set the precsion of the resulting dataset. It has been suggested to me that should be 1. Anybody know why?

Thanks, in advance for your help.

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Maps of the World's Ferry Systems?

darkchoqlit477 — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:21:16 GMT

Hello Map Lovers,
Would any of you have any information on where I could download or a website where I could view maps of ferry systems from around the world? Please advise.

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Burning Man Playa Maps

nymlet — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:32:15 GMT

Hey, I just started this tribe. Already we're making great strides!

http://tribes.tribe.net/playamaps

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PDF maps

alexxz4 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:14:58 GMT

hey, check out my gallery of PDF world maps.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/617962/bf4a9e76/hammond_maps_I.html

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pricing maps

jmparker — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:35:21 GMT

Anyone know a place to go online that gives some ideas of values of LOTS of different kinds of maps?
I just came into a couple of big color British 40s wartime children's maps of countries.
Trying to decide if it's worth trying to shop them around, or if I should just enjoy

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Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?

Evan — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:17:53 GMT

Hi, I'm a recent graduate of the University of Chicago looking to move out to the San Francisco Bay Area. Does anyone know of any map-related jobs available?

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Mapping Burning Man (Geo/GPS)

nymlet — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:27:24 GMT

Hey all,

I'm looking for information about people mapping Black Rock City this year. I know some of you are out there, using maps in art projects, making maps, or just geowanking like me.

Let me know, I'm putting together a site about mapping and using GPS units on the playa!

Thanks,
nym

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Wow! Bike maps!

Cara Mia! — Sat, 20 May 2006 03:26:09 GMT

I just found out about the wonder that is bike maps with highlighted routes and elevation gain profiles. Here's an example of my own town, Bellingham WA: http://www.cob.org/documents/gis/maps/COB_Bikemap.jpg.

Does anyone have links to bike maps of other places?

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Clean Water Maps

Flowingrace — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:43:21 GMT

Volunteers collect, map and display watershed data. Check out this PDF with GIS maps and more. http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/nps/docs/conference2005/presentations/t830b2_madrone.pdf

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Fun Maps

tracy_the_astonishing — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:55:05 GMT

There are a bunch of neet maps on Platial right now to which anyone can add. My favorites are maps where people put categories of stories onto maps. Click on the titles to read the stories

Hopeless Romantic--my favorite
http://www.platial.com/paiges/map/1535

Heartbreak UK--more romance (I'm such a girl sometimes)
http://www.platial.com/bianca2000/map/1762

Weird Things that Happened to Me
http://www.platial.com/wept/map/1665

Unusual Deaths
http://www.platial.com/bianca2000/map/1787

Leap of Faith--spontaneous relocation stories
http://www.platial.com/jason/map/1777

Brooklyn Fake Olympics
http://www.platial.com/jason/map/1808

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ArcIMS Developer Job

Rose — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:22:07 GMT

Any interested in a ArcIMS Developer position in Mobile, AL? We need someone immediately!

Job ID: APPSYSANLST-ARCIMS on yahoo jobs. Let me know if you're interested.

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SimCity Fans?

darkchoqlit477 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:40:12 GMT

I am a huge SimCity fan. Are there any others out there who simply love this game, and would like to see it take on a more "professional" electronic-gaming role?

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Dispatchers?

Mobber — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:04:46 GMT

does anyone here work as a dispatcher?

I have always been into maps as a kid but I have been working as a dispatcher for many years now at a few different companies.

Mainly DirecTV, Comcast and now an HVAC company.

I study the Thomas Guide when I am bored and I even have the Digital Edition on my computer.

I know where the good doobie drives are.

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Map Software needed

photo61 — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:35:23 GMT

I have Microsoft Street and trips 2000 - I cracked the install disk and was wondering if any one can make me a copy. I have the run disk and it is fine.

Chris

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any suggestions on where to buy maps on the net??

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:29:53 GMT

thanks in advance

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Book suggestions

nneth — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:46:18 GMT

Does anyone here have any suggestions for good books on map history? I'm still pretty new to this and would appreciate any input.

Many thanks,

Ken

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ipod transit maps

Waypoints — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:21:10 GMT

Transit maps on your ipod photo! William Bright thought it would be handy to create a website where you could download maps and of course to openly share his idea to the world so people could find their way. Now he is getting cease and desist letters from the NY and San Francisco transit systems. Keep in mind, although he accepts donations on his page he does not charge for the maps. Find out more at:

http://www.ipodsubwaymaps.com/

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The Map Realm

CN — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:55:10 GMT

If you've ever made your own maps of imaginary places, you'll appreciate this guy's work:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~aleskiw/maps/home.htm

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wanna trade metro/subway maps?

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:25:12 GMT

I'd love to trade DC Metro maps for those of other cities. anywhere in the world. send me a message and we can exchange addresses.

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Episode 110 "Mapping" - This American Life radio show

gianna — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:10:46 GMT

This American Life radio show
Episode 110 "Mapping"

www.thislife.org/pages/des...tions/98/110.html

Act One: [4:00 to 12:30] [8.5 minutes]

Cartographer Denis Wood talks about the maps he's made of his own neighborhood, Boylan Heights, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is creating maps that are more like novels describing everyday life.

a) map of the underground: man holes, gas lines, sewer lines

b) map of the overhead (power, telephone, cable) lines - ends of tiny capilaries connecting to individual homes - makes the neighborhood sound like a living organism

c) map of pools of light cast by each streetlight at night displayed on a black field

d) each traffic sign in the neighborhood drawn on a map - just traffic signs on a background - no streets. the density reveals those streets where strangers are expected to move through the environment in need of direction

e) map of Halloween pumpkins on porches

Photographed the pumpkin faces and all you see are the eyes and mouths floating on the black background of the map. The streets are not drawn and instead are implicit in the lines and groupings of the pumpkins.

f) A related map shows how many times a resident at a given dwelling location was mentioned in the Boylan Heights newsletter in the previous 25 years. Found certain dwellings are frequently mentioned no matter who lives in them. Local "movers and shakers" pick homes in important locations with architectural or historical significance, etc.

"Look where these pumpkins are - they are exactly where people are mentioned in the newsletter."

"It's almost like you're writing a novel but with pure symbol - with maps."

"A map gets its meaning by *not* giving you all the information about everything but by selecting - this map is about this slice of the world"

The neighborhood is experienced by a collection of patterns of light and sound and smell and taste and communication with others (e.g., the light coming through the leaves in the trees in the summer.)

"Taking the premise of the map as a way of describing the world and then pointing it at things that we dont usually think of as being mappable."

"...involved with the search I have for the for the poetics of cartography."

"There isn't anything that doesnt have spacial dimension - and that spacial character is interesting."

"Selecting subjects for cartographic display are other than those that are typically displayed."

______________________________________________________

Denis Wood, author of the Power of Maps and
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0898624932-0&partner_id=28734

Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0898624932-0&partner_id=28734

____________________________________________

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Metro Map Lovers?

darkchoqlit477 — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:50:31 GMT

Anyone here into transit maps? If so, what are some of your favorite metro transit maps. I must say that I love London's and Paris's city, metro maps. Check out londons at www.tfl.gov.uk. It's a great website.

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Ancient Roman puzzle yields clues

mapkook — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:29:04 GMT

from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4717745.stm

Ancient Roman puzzle yields clues
By Vanessa Collingridge
Presenter, Rebuilding Rome

For more than 500 years scholars have been wrestling with an ancient Roman puzzle that would test even the most cunning of quiz-masters.

How do you put together a giant stone jigsaw when 80% of the pieces are missing and you have even lost the lid?

Now with a joint Italian-US team on the case using a hi-tech approach the answer might finally be within reach.

The Forma Urbis, or Severan Marble Plan, is a giant map of the city of Rome constructed around AD200 by the Emperor Septimus Severus.

It was fixed onto the wall of the Templum Pacis (Temple of Peace) in the heart of the city - a massive display symbolising both the greatness of the city, and the emperor's power to know its every nook and cranny.

But with the decline of the empire from the 4th Century, the vast marble map - measuring 18m by 13m (59 feet by 43 feet) and intricately carved onto 250 separate slabs - was prised off the wall.

The building stones were stolen, crushed into cement or merely slid down off the wall to lie buried in the gardens below for the next 1,000 years.

Historical challenge

The rediscovery of some of the pieces during the Renaissance ignited an interest in reconstructing the map that has bewitched scholars ever since.
Now scientists at America's Stanford University have joined Italian archaeologists in the capital's Museum of Roman Civilisation with a multi-disciplinary and hi-tech approach to solving the ancient riddle.
The Stanford team has digitally scanned all 1,186 surviving pieces of the Plan and constructed a range of computer programmes which use algorithms to try to fit the pieces together.

Helping them in their detective work are a set of clues embedded within the pieces - the shape of the broken edges, the colour and veining of the marble, the carvings of the map itself and also a series of holes on the reverse of the pieces, where the slabs were fixed to the wall by evenly-spaced metal pins. It is an intriguing cocktail of three-dimensional clues - but the rewards are equally intoxicating.

"We used all the clues to no success for the first two-three years, then we started to get the first computer matches," says Stanford's Professor Marc Levoy. "But when we verified them in Rome it was just amazing to physically touch the real pieces and see them connect with a certain finality. The whole room broke into applause!"

Hi-tech success

In the past year, the project has found as many matches as scholars have found in the past 20 years.

And in the last few weeks they have completed 3-D models for all the existing fragments: a monumental achievement and a major leap forward to reconstructing the forgotten landscape of ancient Rome.

Rome's Colosseum
The Colosseum: Monuments tell only part of Rome's story
Rich and poor, traders and bureaucrats, slaves and the free often lived cheek-by-jowl in the most multicultural and vibrant city of its age.

Its reconstruction after almost 2,000 years is a possibility that excites Professor Andrew Wallis Hadrill, director of the British School in Rome.
"Rome has always been a very cosmopolitan place and you can see this in the detail of the Forma Urbis: there's simply nowhere else like it.

"It was the first duty of the emperor to know who was in his city, where they lived, how on earth to feed them to keep them from rioting. So this map is a symbolical statement in both size and magnificence. It says: we know you in detail, we know every street, every doorway. What a wonderful way to display knowledge! It's saying, 'This is our city - look at it! Wow!'"

The map is also invaluable for revealing the hidden side of Rome which never stood the test of time - the commonplace houses and shops where ordinary Romans lived their lives.

Although frustratingly it only gives details of the ground floors for a city that would have had the New York skyline of its day, it is still the most important topographical work to have survived to modern times.

Now the veil is being drawn back from the real story of Rome - a buzzing, noisy, often smelly and crowded but living city, beautifully captured in stone.

Rebuilding Rome can be heard on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 27 July 2005 at 1100BST or for seven days after that at Radio 4's Listen again page.

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Backgrounds?

mcwetboy — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:00:29 GMT

Now that there's a few of us here I should stop being remiss in my moderating duties.

I'd like to throw out a question: What mapping background are you coming from? Are you a GIS professional or an antique map collector? Were you a geography major? Do you just like looking at maps? What, in other words, brought you here?

I'm really curious to see where people are coming from.

I'll start: I'm not a map expert -- didn't even take introductory geography at university -- but I do run a little weblog about maps called The Map Room: www.mcwetboy.net/maproom

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Pull down school maps?

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:01:47 GMT

Does anyone know where I can find old pull down maps like we had in grade school?

BTW I haven't been very successfull on E-Bay, so am looking for other places/options.
Thanks!

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Topographic Maps

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:17:47 GMT

Does anyone here collect or have an interest in topographic maps?

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New Maps at Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps

Jonathan — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:26:11 GMT

I've just uploaded some maps from a recent aquisition "Gallery Of Geography" by Rev Milner, some nice maps of the main continents. Even though the book I have was published around 1920, I think the maps date to around the late 1800s.

Unfortunately I only have one book from the set so there's only a few maps, maybe I'll track down the other books in the future!

http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl?book=William%20Mackenzie%20Gal...

Jonathan
http://www.hipkiss.org/data/maps.html

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Intro

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:41:13 GMT

Hi Folks,

I'm the GIS Administrator in a local government in Georgia.

Got into GIS 4 years ago and made a quick study of it. Spatially oriented, I guess.

Wanted to join and see what was going on here.

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Any one here draw maps??? (computer, paper)

Khalsa — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:14:47 GMT

Seeing how i'm new here i might as well introduce myself first. My name is Darcy Starr, or as other people call me on the net "Khalsa Starr" My age is 19 and i live in Vernon, BC, Canada. Anything else will be added onto later.

Anyways, does any one here draw maps???
I'm always looking foe ppl who draw maps, since i create them myself. That brings me to why i actually joined this group. Of course i will talk on other topics than my maps, but seeing how it relaes i put it up anyways.

I started drawing maps about 7 or 8 years ago. I got the idea originally from simcity but i wanted more. so i started to draw maps for fun. Over the years they have evolved and have become more than just RCI and some roads. The city's i build today feel like cities and are much more visually more interesting to look at.

since i can'y use image tags here i'll just show a url that can be cut and pasted. This link goes to my picture gallery. The maps are in three seperate galleries:

http://starrdarcy.mypicgallery.com/
or:
http://cv15.mypicgallery.com/

I hope there are others in this group tha share my interest and talent.

-Khalsa Starr

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Surveying

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:26:14 GMT

Do we have anyone here with any surveying experience? I would like to start a tribe for Land Surveyors eventually, if there is enough interest.

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Cartography: Art or Science?

keng — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:08:19 GMT

Someone brought this up in one of the other threads, and its one that has dogged me for most of my career. During the breakup of the Soviet Union, we had a lot of TV crews swarming the company where I was working and one of the questions that they asked all of the cartographers was, "Do you consider yourself more of an artist or more of a scientist?" Much to my editor's chagrin, I answered "Artist," and I've pretty much felt that the art aspect of mapping has declined dramatically with the increase of automation. Does anyone else dis/agree? Have thoughts?

Thanks!

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Military Geospatial Information Doctrine

Tyler — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:07:13 GMT

Hey all,
I was just out surfing the web and I came across this link on the Army's Engineer Magazine website. It relates to how the Army & the Department of Defense is transforming the way they utilize geospatial information.

Hope you enjoy,
Tyler

http://www.wood.army.mil/ENGRMAG/PDFs%20for%20Jan-Mar%2004/Kingston-Bergman.pdf

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Library of Congress Bird's Eye View

urbaneezer — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:57:55 GMT

The LoC has a collection of fantastic 'bird's eye' maps from around the country that are from the 1800's and 1900's. Click on the link and your state to find those local to you!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panmap.html

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Tract Maps

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:52:47 GMT

Hi,
Has anyone tried to obtain a tract map for their subdivision? My home is 50 years old and I don't know if they keep copies of that stuff for that long. I live in California. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I go about obtaining something like that?
Thanks,
Scott

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New Scientist Says: Gay Men Read Maps like Women.

silusgrok — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:03:09 GMT

From the article:

"Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests.

But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, gay women read maps just like straight women, reveals the study of 80 heterosexual and homosexual men and women."

Now, this is interesting by itself... but what made me want to post this to the tribe was this, two paragraphs later:

"The stereotype that women are relatively poor map readers is borne out by a reasonable bulk of scientific literature, notes Rahman. 'Men, particularly, excel at spatial navigation.'"

Let's assume for just a moment that Rahman's assertion bears any scrutiny... are there any groups out there working on making maps for women? Are there any efforts afoot?

Think of it — the quintessential argument in the car: "I know where I'm going" "I think you're lost... pull over and ask directions." "No." ... ad nauseum. What if this dialogue is caused not by the man's innate pig-headedness (alone), but is also rooted in the woman's unease with map reading — and the coping mechanism of asking for spoken directions?

That's a lot of what-ifs... but Home Depot and other stores are making _billions_ by getting out of the male groove — why not cartographers?

Anyway, here's the article:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7069

Comments welcome.

- sG

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GIS and The Mac (os x of course)

xe0s242 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:50:41 GMT

Does anyone use GIS on a Mac? I am stuck on the wintel platform at work with ESRI products. Tried GRASS but got tired of things not working. GIS is definetly lacking on the mac unless I missed something.

-Anthony

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Map Templet wanted

photo61 — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:14:02 GMT

Sometimes I am asked to draw direction maps us MS paint. Does any one have any templet I can use to cut and paste onto the maps I am working on. Please contact me directly.

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CC licensed Street Maps

silusgrok — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:37:15 GMT

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Don't know much about the service, but thought it would be of interest to the group.

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Looking for GIS Peers

Ryan — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:04:00 GMT

Wow, cool that I came across this tribe. Hope to hear from you all soon. I heart GIS and mapping.

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www.urbancartography.com

J. — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:06:58 GMT

New collaborative weblog on cartography & urban planning issues looking for co-authors - no time requirement really - and a halfway decent banner:

http://www.urbancartography.com

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theban mapping project

euboia — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:13:37 GMT

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com

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Fun with Maps

lucrezia — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:47:56 GMT

Maps seem to be such serious things, but do you have examples where you have had fun with maps? Perhaps in childhood?

For example: When we were kids, aged 12, 10 & 8, we were about to move to a new State. Dad bought us a map of the new state, and we used to spend hours pouring over it, in a game we made up. One would pick a place (or feature), say its name, and the other two had to find it. The first to spot it would get the next call. We became very familiar with the State before we even got here. And found some weird & wonderful names which just demand further exploration. "Bust-Me-Gall Hill" is a real place, truly, and it's not far from "Break-Me-Neck Hill"!

What is your earliest memory or use of maps?

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Quest for three AAA maps

lucrezia — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:39:15 GMT

Hi to all, or should that be g'day!

Just joined, for two reasons - I've always loved maps, antique maps, Roman maps, old maps, local maps, fantasy maps - all of them!

I have no particular background in maps apart from 1st year University Geography.

Second reason: I am looking for a way to get three AAA maps, but the Automobile Association (of America) wouldn't send them to me (overseas), even though I am a member of the equivalent association here, with reciprocal rights.

The three California maps are 2135 Coast & Valley Section; 2131 Monterey Bay Region; and 2094 San Francisco.
(they don't need to be sent overseas, just to a person in USA).

If anyone is able to help, I would be very grateful.

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Transit maps?

Richard — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:40:22 GMT

Anyone here keep or collect them? I have a honkin' banker's box of 'em (mostly domestic)! I am especially keen to system maps, for transit systems large & small.

(I am sometime soon going to thin out the herd - so I'll hope to post what I have in the way of extras; who knows, maybe I can make room for some of YOUR spares?...)

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GIS coordinates

jneria — Wed, 12 May 2004 21:58:18 GMT

Does anyone know where I could get a set of GIS data
that correlates Latitude/longitude coordinates with
postal addresses in Portland Or? I would like to build a
database that keeps track of household information, but that you can use a map to view the data. I've never dabbled in GIS before so any info you can give me would be helpful.

Jeff

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1910 map of San Francisco

Nene — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:15:59 GMT

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/usa/hammonds1910/cities/san-francisco.jpg

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NYC Subway Shower Curtain Map

Yosemite — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 02:01:52 GMT

A friend of mine got this recently, the New York City Subway map on a shower curtain.

http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/Product.asp?order_num=%C2%AD1&SKU=103908

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Constructing cartograms

Waypoints — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:42:08 GMT

Someone on the tribe was asking me how to make cartograms manually so I have included below a quick and dirty way to make a contiguous, single-value cartogram that attempts to preserve shape.

You will need graph paper, pencils, erasers, and whatever manual drafting materials you think appropriate.

I will try to simplify the process as much as possible so remember there are several ways to make a cartogram and there are several types of cartograms (contiguous, non-contiguous, single, and two variable, etc.).

1. Consider what is the total area the map will cover
2. Determine what level your enumeration unit will be. This is usually determined by how the data was captured and recorded.
3. Consider the proportion of total that each enumeration has as the size of each enumeration will depend on this.
4. Determine if you map is best served as a contiguous cartogram or non-contiguous cartogram. In other words, do you want to maintain spatial proximity of the total area or do you want to "space" out the enumeration units.
5. Decide as to what degree you can and want to preserve the original shape of the enumeration units.
6. There are several ways to address these issues so you may want to review other atlases, etc. Also, look back too much older cartograms, as there are some beautiful constructions that are no longer being produced thanks to GIS.
7. Now, organize your data into 3 or 5 divisions or ranking classification.
8. From this structure determine a good "counting-unit" for your data. A good way to approach this is to take your largest enumeration unit (that is the one that will be the largest distortion) and take the graph paper and draw that largest unit onto the paper. But be warned you have to visualize how the other units may fit on the page. Once you have done this it will give you a good idea of how many grid squares lie within the border of the enumeration unit. You must also approximate the area within grid squares that are bisected by the border to come up with a total "counting-unit" for that enumeration unit.
9. Now make a chart of your data breaking up the raw data into "counting-units"
10. You can now start drawing your map based on these sizes.
11. I find it easier working with the larger enumerations first and then filling the in-between places with the smaller enumeration units but you have to be able to visualize the data. Most people probably build on each previous constructed enumeration unit to preserve border shapes. This is good too just remember what you imagine your total map to look like.
12. So, you begin to have what looks like a cartogram . . . don't forget to include a key on your map (perhaps a block of the counting unit or several) this should match those data divisions or ranking classification that you previously determined.
13. If there is an enumeration unit where the data equals 0 or is significantly smaller than the other units, I would recommend leaving it out of the cartogram but placing a notation at the bottom of your map. Otherwise, map-readers may think it was an error and that you omitted something that should be there.
14. After you have drawn your cartogram you may want to scan it into a graphics program and then edit it and add text etc. Be sure to scan your key at the same time and ALWAYS include your key in any enlargements or reductions of the map so that it retains accuracy.

I am working on an article that explains combining both manual and computer methods in making cartograms. I will post it whenever I get it done but the paying jobs of course have priority. I hope these short, quick, and dirty instructions are useful and if you have any questions you can send them to michael@cartographic.net.

Cartogram example: http://www.cartographic.net/graphics/maps/pages/armedforcescartogram_jpg.htm

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musicplasma

karmagirl — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 05:38:24 GMT

I'm not too sure when this site (http://www.musicplasma.com) was made but I thought that I'll pass it on to this tribe.

You enter in the name of a musician/band and, based on the database at Amazon.com, it'll map out related music.

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Help

Robert — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:21:36 GMT

What are those maps where size of a country is distorted based on the size of its population called? Does anyone know of any GIS applications that can do this sort of thing?

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Looking for Remote Sensing Professionals

Craig — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:52:46 GMT

Hello...I am new to tribe.net and am trying to find people who are involved in some field of remote sensing. This is the path I have set for my future and am interested in learning what kind of education I need to get into this field. Currently I have basic knowledge of the ENVI/Flaash software. If anyone knows of any information that would lead me down that path, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

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I made a map

J. — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:29:11 GMT

Since it's so quiet here, I'll guide y'all to the nearly complete map-heavy site we've just built for the Bay Area.

You can see it at:

http://209.162.142.183/beta2/

Click on the main map for the interactive one.

It's been a lot of fun to make. It's, of course, been a political process so there's some ... extra stuff there ...

J.

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