maps from earlier days
A few maps and sites that I found while researching my Ignite paper but didn’t include (often because they weren’t what I was researching) and forgot to blog:
from Princeton’s International Networks Archive, non-geographic mapping, reorganising the placement of cities around the world based on the travel time between a chosen hub and the remaining cities (in the screenshot above, Sydney is acting as the hub). Transport methods include “elephant ride into jungle”, “walk around very crowded city”, and so on. [via Ethan Zuckerman's ...My heart's in Accra]
This specific map I did feature, briefly, in my presentation: MapTube, a site for sharing, creating, and doing mash-up type things with maps. A variety of visualisations there, including such maps as global Big Mac prices, UK credit crunch maps, and the above geographically-correct London Underground as an overlay on Google Maps map of the Greater London area. A lot of London-specific and UK maps so far, although as it’s run by University College London, that’s not unsurprising. [via The Map Room]
And some links for today:
- Knowledge Cartography, a project looking at maps as communication devices, narration, and tools, aiming “to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography.” [via visual complexity]
- San Seriffe, a semicolonial state, the kind of project I wish I could make anywhere near as simply. [from the Guardian, but via Strange Maps]
- the world in text form, centred, justified, left-aligned, right-aligned… [also via Strange Maps]
- a map (of course) detailing 70 blogs about cartography and related topics, organised thematically as a metro map [via Serial Mapper]
- and finally, as you may recognise from the banner above, I quite like board games that create their own maps – in the last twelve months I’ve developed a rather substantial addiction to both Carcassonne and the Settlers (and Seafarers) of Catan. Looking at the tiles for the forthcoming Cult, Siege, and Creativity expansion is making me look forward to my next games of Carcassonne, as indeed is the mysterious, new larger expansion: the Catapult (Das Katapulte)…
