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Maps for Reframing an Over-Farmed Landscape

February 14, 2014, 11:32 am
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Agriculture maps nicely frame the viewer’s relation to a measured settled expanse, and chart changes in the relative fertility of cropland.  Maps can also offer a recent rural palimpsest of our reshaping of our relation to farmland, in the hope … Continue reading →
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Follow the Money from the Bay Area’s Shores

February 15, 2014, 9:42 am
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Cartographer William Rankin’s splendid 2006 project mapping city income donuts across urban America did not perfectly pan out into concentric circles of wealth he invited readers to entertain; but the donuts do suggest the wedded nature of the bay’s shore with … Continue reading →
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Local Landscapes in OSM: the Shifting Economy of Mapping Place

February 23, 2014, 10:15 am
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A cry goes out over the internet, “Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Trounces Google Maps,” in a banner headline intoned as if intended to evoke the battle of David and Goliath.  It affirmed the victory of not a company, but of the members of a … Continue reading →
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Facebook Charts Migrations across Borders: Harvesting Data, Ten Years In

March 5, 2014, 3:04 pm
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With Facebook at its tenth anniversary, the data the social network generates has become a way to map patterns of interconnectedness.  In ways that provide strikingly new ways to see the world less in terms of its divisions than the … Continue reading →
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A New Other Green World? Mapping Algae Populations and Tracking Harmful Algae Blooms

March 17, 2014, 11:44 am
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Access to pure freshwater seems an innate right, and freshwater lakes conjure pristine landscapes.  But the twinned threats of global warming and industrial farms threaten to alter the geography of watery world in an apparently definitive fashion, as rivers, ponds, … Continue reading →
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On the Repeated Mapping of the Unknown Path of Malaysia Flight 370

April 4, 2014, 12:32 pm
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The expanding number of maps that display the diverted flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 enact an exercise equivalent to that of mapping the unknown:  if the early proliferation of possible maps of its flight path matched the shock of … Continue reading →
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Crafting an Im aginaryAtlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World

April 11, 2014, 11:10 am
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What is one to make of Hong Hao’s wryly crafted maps, and their frustration at the imbalances of globalization?  There is a sense of the ready-made artifact, of Duchampian inspiration, in the series of brilliantly clever set of silkscreens, Selected Scriptures, which … Continue reading →
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The Loosely-Sketched World

January 15, 2014, 11:32 pm
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We’re familiar with considering “art” as a way to further or accentuate the representational qualities of cartography, and treating the map as if it were a system of perception–rather than viewing each as separate but analogous representational systems.  This shifts, … Continue reading →
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Mapping Water’s Presence and Absence Across Land: Maps of Aridity and Drought

January 24, 2014, 6:09 pm
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Maps provide quite supple tools to draw the distribution of a variations among land and water, and to reflect on the local variations of the specific landscapes they represent.  But the syntax of terrestrial mapping does not lend itself easily to … Continue reading →
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Internet Maps for Geeks Only?

February 1, 2014, 1:26 pm
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The routes of travel and communication that are woven on-line on the world wide web challenge the limits of human comprehension of space or of an inter-related network:  links created by on-line communication provide compelling bases for surveilling individual locations by … Continue reading →
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Maps for Reframing an Over-Farmed Landscape

February 14, 2014, 11:32 am
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Agriculture maps nicely frame the viewer’s relation to a measured settled expanse, and chart changes in the relative fertility of cropland.  Maps can also offer a recent rural palimpsest of our reshaping of our relation to farmland, in the hope … Continue reading →
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Follow the Money from the Bay Area’s Shores

February 15, 2014, 9:42 am
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Cartographer William Rankin’s splendid 2006 project of mapping city income donuts across urban America did not perfectly pan into the geometry of concentric circles of wealth he imagined.  But the donuts of income distribution within the Bay Area do suggest the … Continue reading →
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Local Landscapes in OSM: the Shifting Economy of Mapping Place

February 23, 2014, 10:15 am
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A cry goes out over the internet, “Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Trounces Google Maps,” in a banner headline intoned as if intended to evoke the battle of David and Goliath.  It affirmed the victory of not a company, but of the members of a … Continue reading →
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Facebook Tracks Migrations across Borders: Harvesting Data, Ten Years In

March 5, 2014, 3:04 pm
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The pleasures of all forms of mapping respond to the deeply satisfying ends to which they process ties across space for viewers, allowing them ways to access space through spatial networks that one never before had the pleasure to observe: … Continue reading →
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A New Other Green World? Mapping Algae Populations and Tracking Harmful Algae Blooms

March 17, 2014, 11:44 am
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Access to pure freshwater seems an innate right, and freshwater lakes conjure pristine landscapes.  But the twinned threats of global warming and industrial farms threaten to alter the geography of watery world in an apparently definitive fashion, as rivers, ponds, … Continue reading →
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Search

On the Repeated Mapping of the Unknown Path of Malaysia Flight 370

April 4, 2014, 12:32 pm
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The expanding number of maps that display the diverted flight path of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 enact an exercise equivalent to that of mapping the unknown:  if the early proliferation of possible maps of its flight path matched the shock of … Continue reading →
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Crafting an Imaginary Atlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World

April 11, 2014, 11:10 am
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What is one to make of the silkscreen prints Hong Hao assembles from digitized versions of antiquated printed world maps?  While dispensing with anything like an exact correspondence to the world, each creates a fantasia of borderlands, and offers something of a wry response to the frustration … Continue reading →
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The Loosely-Sketched World

January 15, 2014, 11:32 pm
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We’re familiar with considering “art” as a way to further or accentuate the representational qualities of cartography, and treating the map as if it were a system of perception–rather than viewing each as separate but analogous representational systems.  This shifts, … Continue reading →
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Mapping Water’s Presence and Absence Across Land: Maps of Aridity and Drought

January 24, 2014, 6:09 pm
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Maps provide quite supple tools to draw the distribution of a variations among land and water, and to reflect on the local variations of the specific landscapes they represent.  But the syntax of terrestrial mapping does not lend itself easily to … Continue reading →
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Internet Maps for Geeks Only?

February 1, 2014, 1:26 pm
$
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0
The routes of travel and communication that are woven on-line on the world wide web challenge the limits of human comprehension of space or of an inter-related network:  links created by on-line communication provide compelling bases for surveilling individual locations by … Continue reading →
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