1:1(2) [every] Adventures in mapping. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. Where You Are: Cartography as Wayfinding for the Soul. By Maria Popova Mapping the human experience based on disposition rather than position.
Humanity has had a long and obsessive relationship with maps as sensemaking tools serving such diverse purposes as propaganda, imaginative interpretation, emotional memory, and timekeeping. Far from the precise navigational tools they once were, maps have now blossomed into masterworks of artful subjectivity, from Denis Wood’s narrative atlas to Paula Scher’s stunning typographic cartography — but nowhere more so than in Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost (public library) by Visual Editions.
Indeed, in the age of GPS and sterile, data-driven cartographic precision, how delightful to consider mapping the human experience based on disposition rather than position, on the subjective rather than the capital-O Objective, on the symbolic, metaphysical, and abstract rather than the literal, physical, and concrete. The impossible city is a city made of all cities. 40 more maps that explain the world. Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world.
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail.
I've included a link for more information on just about every one. Enjoy. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. Geo-visualization. Geo-visualization. Geospatial: the lifeblood of data. Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 @ 3:38PM This morning I presented at the FOSS4G Conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney.
It’s official name is the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2009. It was one of the the many conferences I attend that I wish I could have spent more time at. Cameron Shorter, the hard-working conference organiser (congrats) has recommended I check out the presentation by Paul Ramsey, titled Beyond Nerds Bearing Gifts: The Future of the Open Source Economy. In the mean time, you can follow proceedings via twitter . I did get to listen to Raul Vera’s enigmatic presentation (he’s from Google), who was on the program immediately after me, and he got me thinking about a heap of things, so I will post these thoughts in the next few days.
Anyway, here is the text of my presentation: Opening Address Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2009 Darling Harbour, Sydney22 October 2009 It is of course, MAPS. Thank you.