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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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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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Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?

April 24, 2014, 11:01 am
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Regional maps of Ukraine–and of the region of Crimea–are inevitably filled with their own narratives, most usually of the ethnic and cultural division of the region.  Maps of the region implicitly pose the question of where the region’s unity in … Continue reading →
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Windswept Lands

May 3, 2014, 12:48 pm
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The ready availability of huge datasets offers multiple formats for modeling an increasingly dynamic relation to space, as the processing of remotely sensed data allows for frighteningly rapid condensation and synthesis of what can only be called information on a … Continue reading →
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Mapping a Century of Rising Heat

May 10, 2014, 8:57 am
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The New YorkTimes The color-saturated mapping of regional changes in temperature across the contiguous United States provided a commanding visual for the front page of the New York Times of May 6 to capture changes in the US climate:  placed on  conspicuously above the fold and … Continue reading →
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Mapping the Inequities of the Anthropocene

May 23, 2014, 7:13 pm
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The current change of global climate poses peculiar difficulties of mapping by placing ourselves as viewers outside of the momentous changes they describe.  For the notion of mapping the arrival of the Anthropocene–or the signs of the visible impact humans … Continue reading →
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Our Globalized Maps of Ocean Temperatures

June 7, 2014, 11:06 am
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When we are talking about global events–from warming to El Niño–we need to synthesize global variations in a spectrum of a set of surface temperatures that only a satellite can assemble.  But the virtual image–even if it depends on information far … Continue reading →
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Our Increasingly Uncomfortable Topographies of Incarceration

June 12, 2014, 2:17 pm
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The yellowed map below documents what seems a foreign country:  the lynchings recorded in US states and counties from 1900-1931 serves as a record of the widespread dehumanization of others in the recent past.  The national map, based on research of the … Continue reading →
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Are We There Yet? The Plane in the Map

June 22, 2014, 12:03 pm
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New markets of maps are always emerging, and we seem to have our own interest in making maps for an growingly de-centered globalized world.  But perhaps one of the oddest markets is for the rehabilitation of the itinerary in a … Continue reading →
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Cabstopping: Data Visualization and the Re-Mapping of Urban Space

June 28, 2014, 4:10 am
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Data visualizations often employ maps to make their point, and organize an effective argument that will engage their audience:  when we see data embodied in a map, and are best engaged in its interpretation.  The alchemy of the data visualization is a magic … Continue reading →
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The Betrayal of Sykes-Picot?

July 2, 2014, 11:07 am
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The announcement of the formation of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the areas that its forces occupy in Iraq and Syria as “The Islamic State,” and successor of the Ottoman Empire, parallels the disintegration of Syria as a nation, … 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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Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?

April 24, 2014, 11:01 am
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Regional maps of Ukraine–and of the region of Crimea–are inevitably filled with their own narratives, most usually of the ethnic and cultural division of the region.  Maps of the region’s populations implicitly pose the question of where the region’s unity … Continue reading →
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Windswept Lands

May 3, 2014, 12:48 pm
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The ready availability of huge datasets offers multiple formats for modeling an increasingly dynamic relation to space. Indeed, the processing of remotely sensed data allows for frighteningly rapid condensation and synthesis of what can be called information within a single … Continue reading →
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Mapping a Century of Rising Heat

May 10, 2014, 8:57 am
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The New YorkTimes The color-saturated mapping of regional changes in temperature across the contiguous United States provided a commanding visual for the front page of the New York Times of May 6 to capture changes in the US climate:  placed on  conspicuously above the fold and … Continue reading →
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