Archive for the 'map' Category

Picked up Names on the Land again tonight, apposite.

Map detailing which parts of Hollywood-area California can act as stand-ins for which other geographical areas.

"Download our atlas of the Universe and the free Partiview software and begin flying around the Galaxy at home."

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

Printable dymaxion map.

88 piano keys mapped to 88 Ohio counties.

Good color scheme, great URL.

All the spreads from Herbert Bayer's World Geographic Atlas on Flickr.

I, for one, was somewhat surprised to learn that subway ridership in NYC peaked in the late 40s.

"The Romans and ancient travelers in general did not use maps. They may have existed as specialty items in some of the libraries, but they were hard to copy and were not in general use. On the Roman road system, however, the traveller needed some idea of where he was going, how to get there, and how long it would take. The itinerarium filled this need. In origin it was simply a list of cities along a road. It was only a short step from lists to a master list. To sort out the lists, the Romans drew diagrams of parallel lines showing the branches of the roads. Parts of these were copied and sold on the streets. The very best featured symbols for cities, way stations, water courses, and so on. They cannot be considered maps, as they did not represent landforms, but they served a similar purpose much in the way schematic diagrams do for users of modern subway systems (e.g. the Tube map for users of the London Underground)."

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?"

Visual distribution of electoral votes for every single presidential election in US history.

Sitting in my feed reader for a while now. A small selection of maps from the NYPL collection showing geologic overviews and sections of the city.

Each borough's border photographed.

Collection of 23 of the more notable routes of exploration in imperial, economic and literary history. Would of course be better if there were a hell of a lot more voyages on here. But each voyage has interesting supporting material as well.

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

Nice Google map hack incorporating bike lanes into the route planning.

Detailed breakdown of what each frequency is being used for.