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Maps for Reframing an Over-Farmed Landscape
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...
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Follow the Money from the Bay Area’s Shores
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...
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Local Landscapes in OSM: the Shifting Economy of Mapping Place
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...
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Facebook Charts Migrations across Borders: Harvesting Data, Ten Years In
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...
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A New Other Green World? Mapping Algae Populations and Tracking Harmful Algae...
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...
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On the Repeated Mapping of the Unknown Path of Malaysia Flight 370
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...
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Crafting an Im aginaryAtlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World
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...
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The Loosely-Sketched World
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...
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Mapping Water’s Presence and Absence Across Land: Maps of Aridity and Drought
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...
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Internet Maps for Geeks Only?
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...
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Maps for Reframing an Over-Farmed Landscape
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Follow the Money from the Bay Area’s Shores
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Local Landscapes in OSM: the Shifting Economy of Mapping Place
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...
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Facebook Tracks Migrations across Borders: Harvesting Data, Ten Years In
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...
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A New Other Green World? Mapping Algae Populations and Tracking Harmful Algae...
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...
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On the Repeated Mapping of the Unknown Path of Malaysia Flight 370
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...
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Crafting an Imaginary Atlas for a Dystopianly Disproportionate World
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...
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The Loosely-Sketched World
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mapping Water’s Presence and Absence Across Land: Maps of Aridity and Drought
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Internet Maps for Geeks Only?
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...
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