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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Cartographic Gems from Women

I was a little hesitant to have a post on women cartographers. On one hand today is International Women's Day. On the other hand, with so many more women in cartography these days it seems kind of unfair to lump them all together as if they all think (and map) the same. On the other, other hand (3 hands?) I do not feature works by women here as often as I should.

In a previous post, I featured the Women in Cartography exhibit at the Norman Leventhal Map Center.  That post covered some major contributors to the field such as Marie Tharp as well as the history of somewhat anonymous women producing maps. For today I want to enjoy posting a few more recent maps.

Paranormal Madison by Chelsea Nestel
http://nestelmaps.azurewebsites.net/Content/images/C_Nestel_Haunted_I.jpg

Goddesses of Venus by Eleanor Lutz - see my previous post for her Mars map.
http://tabletopwhale.com/2017/03/06/goddesses-of-venus.html
Shinjuku West by Geraldine Sarmiento
https://tangrams.github.io/tangram-frame/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tangrams/multiverse/gh-pages/styles/building-grid.yaml#16/35.6900/139.6920
I also like her Candy Map style. Here is Candy Berlin.
http://geraldinesarmiento.com/candy-map/


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Location: Madison, WI, USA

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Live Animated Trains!

TRAVIC is a visualization of public transit around the world, using live feeds where available and otherwise using schedule data.
TRAVIC is a collaboration between Geops, a German geospatial company and the University of Freiburg. The major and even minor transportation authorities in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are covered along with a few other cities on other continents. When zoomed out to a continental scale, you can see how well covered Europe is.
Here is the coverage in my neck of the woods.
As you zoom in further you see the vehicles. At the local scale they begin to move. Here are some still frames from Philadelphia.
 
I chose Philadelphia partially out of my personal bias, but also because it's one of the few places in North America that actually labels the commuter trains by destination, adding a layer of interest.
The larger orange dots are for the Broad Street Subway (Orange Line) and the smaller blue dots are bus routes. Clicking on a vehicle brings up schedule information as seen in this screen shot from Berlin
I'll leave with an animated shot from America's hardest working transit system. Watching the trains going under the East River is the best part.
Thanks to Urban Demographics for alerting me to this site.
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Location: Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

40 Maps That Won't Explain Anything-Part 1

In my continuing quest to make fun of the recent plague of "40 Maps That Will Explain Everything You Ever Needed to Know and Keep Your Breath Minty Fresh" articles such as this one and this one; here are 10 maps that blissfully do not pretend to explain anything. 40 maps is a lot to digest in one blog post so I will break this out into several posts that will appear from time to time.

1. Jeep tracks around the Pink Roadhouse at Oodnadatta Australia
2. Almost unreadable map of Chicago restaurants

3. Detail from Hand Drawn Map of Berlin by Jenni Sparks
http://www.jennisparks.com/Hand-Drawn-Map-of-Berlin
4. Oregon Wine Regions using 1980's style computer graphics - somethingaboutmaps
5. The Milky Way Transit Authority by Samuel Arbesman
http://www.arbesman.net/milkyway/
6. Panama Shipping Routes from a lemon crate
http://www.antiquelabelcompany.com/store/Scenic/Great-Map-Showing-shipping-Routes-on-PANAMA-Lemon-Crate-Label-from-Santa-Barbara-California-Custom-Framed-p496.html
7. Detail from a zoning map of Minsk-the full map is here.
8. Fort Wayne, Indiana art print from Jennasuemaps
9. Forth Worth, Texas art print, also from Jennasuemaps - really you can't tell the difference?
10. Map of Kashi (Kashgar) just because I've always been weirdly fascinated by the place. Note the areas that were not surveyed due to the arrest of the surveyor.
http://www.china-tour.cn/images/Kashgar/Kashgar-Map.jpg

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Location: Oodnadatta SA 5734, Australia

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Map of the Week- Where was the Wall?

There's been much media coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. One story I heard was about how some residents of Berlin no longer remember exactly where the wall was located. The German Senate has been working to preserve remnants of the wall and border fortifications. Berlin's official web site has a nice online map and guide showing the course of the wall and the associated monuments. This overview map allows the user to add artistic, memorial and historic sites and click on them for details.


                            
 Below is a zoomed in view of the area around the Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate.


           

The web site also has aerial views, history, photos and tourist information.

There is also a 3D view although it requires the Google Earth plugin and does not allow for much interaction.














Here is an aerial view of the Checkpoint Charlie area combined with a map of that location.










The City has also constructed a hiking and bicycling trail along the 160 kilometers of the former border, most of it following the border control roads used by the two governments. The website has a nice description of each section of the trail and also has a link to the Mauer Guide, a downloadable GPS tour that traces the path of the wall with historical information. The guide can be loaded to a cell phone or other handheld device.

Happy 20 jahre mauerfall!
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