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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 of mapping city income donuts across urban America did not perfectly pan into the geometry of concentric circles of wealth he imagined. 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 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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Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?
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...
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Windswept Lands
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...
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Mapping a Century of Rising Heat
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...
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Mapping the Inequities of the Anthropocene
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...
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Our Globalized Maps of Ocean Temperatures
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...
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Our Increasingly Uncomfortable Topographies of Incarceration
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...
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Are We There Yet? The Plane in the Map
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...
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Cabstopping: Data Visualization and the Re-Mapping of Urban Space
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...
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The Betrayal of Sykes-Picot?
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...
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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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Where Is Ukraine? What is Ukraine?
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...
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Windswept Lands
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...
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Mapping a Century of Rising Heat
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...
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