Archive for the 'cartography' Category

Picked up Names on the Land again tonight, apposite.

Weekend project, in between bouts of Mario Wii, Mad Men and sleeping?

Rejiggered map projections. Reminds me a little of playing with Logo in 2nd grade.

Printable dymaxion map.

English architecture blog.

Web-based app to convert GPX files to SVG files usable in Illustrator.

"How was it that a German priest writing in Latin and living in a French city far from the coast became the first person to tell the world that a vast ocean lay to the west of the American continents?"

Each borough's border photographed.

Just got back from the excellent Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. This is an .svg file of a Fuller projection.

There are a hell of a lot more of these than I thought.

Record of four thousand years of locations that solar eclipses were/will be visible from.

Wikipedia continues to amaze.

"[The United States] isn't a unified system of territoriality, but a hodgepodge of different attitudes toward the land and its inhabitants. Different areas under U.S. control have very different relationships to government..."