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With great pleasure the DLD Conference announces the multi-dimensional panel discussion "Maps for the 21st Century", moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist , Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
Maps for the 21st Cntry Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Psalter Map is one of the best surviving examples of a medieval mappa mundi. It is an illustrated map of the world, barely 10cm across and drawn on animal skin, bound into a tiny book of prayers. Typical of medieval maps, the earth is drawn as a round disc, split into the three landmasses of Asia, Europe and Africa.
BBC - The Beauty of Maps - Historical Maps
The Map and the Mind : National Geographic Assignment Blog
Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains , examines how our intellectual technologies—the tools we use to find, store, and share information—influence the way that we think, from the map and the clock to the book and the Internet. In this excerpt, Carr looks at the map’s far-reaching effects on the intellectual lives of our ancestors. A child takes a crayon from a box and scribbles a yellow circle in the corner of a sheet of paper: this is the sun. She takes another crayon and draws a green squiggle through the center of the page: this is the horizon. Cutting through the horizon she draws two brown lines that come together in a jagged peak: this is a mountain.
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The map as metaphor
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. It is also as ancient as humanity itself. That metaphor is the map.
Ever used Google Street View? Google Earth? Of course you have… Now spare a thought for the two guys responsible for snapping all the images. Not an easy job: Loading ...
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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.
China Goes After "Illegal" Online Maps
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).
18 domestic firms get nod for Net mapping
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.
AERIAL SURVEY - British Pathe
Various shots RAF airmen loading Anson aircraft with camera apparatus. Various shots aeroplane taking off. Aerial shot Anson in flight.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.
A Walk Through the Ancient World
The Rap Map — Mapping the Gangsta Terrain of the Planet | Rap Genius
The studio where, in November 1994, 2Pac Shakur was robbed and shot. Puff and Biggie were upstairs in the same studio at the time, and Tupac thought they set him up After the shooting, as he lay in a pool of his own blood, 2Pac asked a friend to roll him a joint while he called his mom and his girlfriend (awww!)Explore Hip Hop History in Google Maps [APP]
A new Google Maps -based web app has placemarks for major locations mentioned in hip hop lyrics, plus the inside story behind each place and the song that named it. It’s called “ The Rap Map ,” and its database is by far strongest in New York City. That’s partly because New York City is an important locale in hip hop history, but we have to admit we’re a little disappointed with the volume of entries for Los Angeles and Chicago, two other cities with incredible histories documented in rap music. That said, the map is less than a week old and users can suggest locations, so the entries will probably expand in the future. The app was created by Rap Genius , a website dedicated to the history, meanings and stories embedded in hip hop song lyrics. It’s a natural extension for the website’s mission, of course, and just another neat example of how web apps like Google Maps and the developer tools that come with them can be used creatively.Doctor Who time travels of the Doctor: Information is Beautiful gets the data - what can you do? Illustration: David McCandless for the Guardian All the time, though, I really wanted to do a mega-visualisation of all of the Time Lord's journeys. But faced the cosmic task of trawling through well over 200 episodes, logging every time TARDIS was hurled through time and space. I like Doctor Who. But not that much.
Doctor Who: Every single journey through time detailed detailed by Information is Beautiful. As a spreadsheet | News | guardian.co.uk
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