Index. The Map and the Mind : National Geographic Assignment Blog. TheRevolution willbeMapped. To get to the headquarters of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, visitors have to navigate a lengthy dirt road past white picket fences, grazing horses and a variety of outbuildings in various stages of disrepair. Set in a one-room former Primitive Baptist church on a 43-acre spread in rural Orange County, N.C., the institute holds a collection of old, ergonomically incorrect wooden desks and metal filing cabinets.
The only signs of modernity are computers atop the desks. Institute founders Allan Parnell and Ann Joyner, who live in a modest country house a stone’s throw from this office, are dressed in their everyday summer attire, T-shirts and shorts. But when they begin pulling maps off printers, Parnell and Joyner step decidedly out of the last century.
“Our daughter tells people we work for the CIA, because what we do is so hard to describe,” Parnell says, only half-joking. would run through the heart of his neighborhood. Cartography: the old versus the New. On December 14th 2009 De Balie – an Amsterdam-based center for culture and politics – organized an evening about old and new cartographies. Participants were Ferjan Ormeling (Emeritus Professor Cartography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University), Henk van Houtum (Associate Professor of Geopolitics and Political Geography, Head of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research), Maarten Keulemans (science journalist), Jelle Reumer (director Natural Museum Rotterdam, Special Professor at Utrecht University), Lucas Keijning (NEMO science center), and me.
The evening was lead by Volkskrant journalist Martijn van Calmthout. The evening was set up as a prelude to the presentation of a new world map the day after in The Hague. From the announcement: We have been making maps for centuries, to establish territorial borders or mark safe routes. A map is a model of reality, and the terrain of a fascinating branch of science: cartography. Then Henk van Houtum and I joined the discussion. The map as metaphor. John Markoff wrote an article in the NY Times “The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives”. He calls the cellphone “the world’s most ubiquitous computer”, since the 4 billion subscriber mark has been reached recently – or even a while ago according to another research agency.
Although it is a fact that most of these 4 billion people do not use smartphones able to do more advanced computing task, it is indeed an interesting thought to consider the mobile device as the actual incarnation of the ubicomp vision, as has already been argued by Bell & Dourish (pdf file: ‘Yesterdays Tomorrows’). Markoff argues that it is no longer the desktop that is the main metaphor for organizing information but the map: With the dominance of the cellphone, a new metaphor is emerging for how we organize, find and use information. New in one sense, that is. The question is: Is the map indeed a universal metaphor? This raises concerns for outsourcing this ability to our technological devices. == update == China Goes After "Illegal" Online Maps. Xinhua, the Chinese news outlet, is reporting this morning that the Chinese government will be implementing new standards that are aimed at preventing "state secrets being disclosed and uncertified maps published online.
" The rules are an update to standards adopted one year ago, and, according to the Xinhua article, require "all Internet map servers to keep servers storing map data inside the country and provide public Internet protocol addresses. " We have to wonder how might this affect Google and the location-based-services market in China. The updated rules will also require that all map servers must "have no record of information leakage in any form in the past three years," and violations exposing state secrets can receive jail sentences of seven to 10 years. The new rules, the article states, also pertain to maps downloaded or copied to mobile devices. Internet censorship is nothing new, but it surely sounds like these rules are about to step it up a notch. 18 online map providers approved by China authorities, Baidu, Go. According to the China Daily, 18 domestic companies in China have received licenses to provide online and/or mobile mapping services in Mainland China, the first such licenses awarded since new regulations were put in place that requires such services to be pre-approved by the government.
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) approved the licenses, which apparently all went to smaller providers, as even China’s leading search engine (and one of it’s leading map services) Baidu has yet to receive approval (no info on whether DDMap, another large provider has received approval yet either). Also, no multinational online mapping providers have yet to be approved, including Nokia and Google, who have both reportedly submitted applications (Nokia told this to the China Daily and Google to The Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago).
The article says that Microsoft would not comment on whether they have submitted an application for Bing Maps yet. h/t Danwei. 18 domestic firms get nod for Net mapping. By Wang Xing and Chen Limin (China Daily) Updated: 2010-06-24 06:07 BEIJING - Authorities have approved 18 domestic companies to provide Internet mapping services in the country, with a number of applications from foreign vendors still being considered. The domestic companies were selected out of about 30 applicants and the list of approved providers is expected to be announced soon, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) told China Daily. The move is expected to pose challenges for the operation of foreign Internet companies such as Google in China. "According to China's Surveying and Mapping Law, foreign firms are not allowed to provide surveying and mapping services. Their activities in China must be under joint ventures or in partnership with domestic firms," the SBSM said. The regulator said it has received a few applications from eligible foreign firms and is "still examining" them.
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A Walk Through the Ancient World. When the first immersive 3D games came out, I asked a programmer if he knew of anyone who had used that technology to create a Virtual Ancient Rome or Virtual Ancient Athens. I loved the idea of walking around in a place whose current face was changed out of all recognition from its golden age. He shook his head. Creating virtual worlds was way too time consuming and required too much specialist knowledge and so was too expensive. A virtual Rome wouldn't create the profit that Doom did. Fast forward a decade and the programming necessary becomes easier to do and the number of people who know how to do it have increased substantially.
The costs involved in creating a virtual world have decreased at the same time that academic and scholarly institutions have become much more willing to invest in it. Now that it's quite a bit easier to find a virtual ancient city to stroll through, I thought I would survey a few options and provide you with a short virtual atlas of the ancient world. Prof. The Rap Map — Mapping the Gangsta Terrain of the Planet. Explore Hip Hop History in Google Maps [APP] Doctor Who: Every single journey through time detailed detailed by Information is Beautiful. As a spreadsheet | News.
Doctor Who time travels of the Doctor: Information is Beautiful gets the data - what can you do? Illustration: David McCandless for the Guardian Last year, I created a visualisation of Time travel in TV & Films. You know. Star Trek, Back To The Future, Planet Of The Apes etc. I deliberately left out Doctor Who. All the time, though, I really wanted to do a mega-visualisation of all of the Time Lord's journeys. I like Doctor Who. A stream of people came forward - programmers, researchers, fans (even a few people who sent pictures of themselves in floppy hats and homemade sonic screwdrivers) Here is the fruit of our labour - a list of every single journey through time made by the doctor, featuring start year, end year, and location.
Download a copy of this spreadsheet It's twinned with a previous datablog dataset - Every Doctor Who Villain How many times do you think the Doctor has travelled through time? Check out the data to see. Download the data The Data Thanks World government data. Timelines: Time travel in popular film and tv. Cartographie. Cartographie du type TimeLine. Cartographie. Cartographie. Map. Géographie. Cartographie.