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Cartographie.org | Cartographies Dynamiques Interactives Search Image Database Wikipedia: Country Population, Density & Area Each square in the Honeycomb map is a country. A Brief Explanation * Population, population density, and geographic area estimates used in this map are taken from the CIA Factbook 2004, a wonderful public domain source of information. There are 191 United Nations member states depicted in the map. Also included are Taiwan, Vatican City, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. As we have likely made a great number of typographical errors in entering the information, we encourage you to take this data with more than a grain of salt: Please apply salt liberally. * We have played rather fast and loose with the continents. We've treated Australia and the surrounding island groupings as Australia & Oceania, a label that is certain to raise someone's ire. All countries have been assigned a primary continent. * Many countries have populations and geographical area added to their totals on the basis of protectorate or commonwealth holdings.

Paula Scher et l’amour des cartes géographiques | Blogue ICI ARTV Pendant plusieurs années, mon père fût professeur de géographie. Pour rendre la matière à enseigner plus ludique, il assista ses élèves dans la création d’une grande carte du monde peinte sur un mur de sa classe. Je me rappelle avoir été impressionné en admirant cette murale collective. Encore aujourd’hui, je peux rester de longues minutes en pâmoison devant une carte géographique, comme face à une œuvre d’art. J’ai découvert la designer Paula Scher par cette passion commune. J’ai le grand plaisir de vous partager mon entrevue avec Paula Scher, une femme inspirante aux idées de grandeur. La géographie et les cartes font partie de votre vie depuis longtemps. Je me rappelle de mon père me montrant une carte très détaillée de notre quartier. Vos projets allouent une grande place à la typographie. J’ai toujours utilisé la typographie comme boîte à outils en toutes choses. Comment la ville de New York où vous habitez, influence votre façon de créer ? Absolument.

Charles Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889: London Topographical Society - Reproductions of Old Maps & Atlases from Stanfords Set of four loose sheets of inner London (each measuring 52x63cm), colour-coding each street according to the relative wealth of its inhabitants in the 1880s. A fascinating look at what London life was like in this defining era. Between 1886 and 1889 a wealthy London Businessman called Charles Booth and his team of assistants conducted a research on the living and working conditions of London's inhabitants. The project is representative of the Victorian's concern and interest towards the urban society. Booth's survey was thorough and accurate. The result was published by Williams and Norgate in 1891 in the two-volume "Labour and Life of the People".

Free GIS Data - GIS Data Depot 2 Days in Seattle - Homegrown - Fremont @NVRguys: Look at these babies! Cabernet, rye, and sour. @artrestaurant always does it right! @jesshunter: Had an unreal time at EMP. Recent Trends in the History of Cartography: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography to the English-Language Literature (2.1) Begin Page 2 Abstract The history of cartography has since the 1970s significantly expanded its disciplinary reach, its theoretical directions and approaches, and its scholarship. This annotated bibliography is intended as a guide to the extended field. It seeks to remind newcomers and established map scholars alike of the field’s traditional concerns (and literatures) and to inform them of its new directions and scholarship. Keywords history of cartography, philosophy of cartography, historiography of cartography, bibliography, empiricist paradigm, modernism, map analysis, critical paradigm, semiotics, constructivism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, academic cartography, map language, Denis Wood, J. Contents IntroductionDocument HistoryAcknowledgments 1.Basic Gateways to the Discipline 2.Single-Volume, General Histories of Cartography 2.1.Academic Histories 2.2.Popular and Derivative Histories 2.3.Coffee-Table Works 3.Historiography Begin Page 3 5.Indigenous Cartographies 6.Cartobibliography

Free GIS Datasets - Categorised List Statistics for 'Social Structure' | Mapping 'Percentage of Working-Age Males in Class 1 & 2' in 1961 The "Statistical atlas" lets you view our British statistical data rates by theme in their entirety as maps for both modern local authorities and historical units. Please note that although there are some statistics within the system relating to places outside Great Britain, particularly Ireland, the majority of our statistics are British and this is reflected in the presentation of data within the Statistical atlas. How it works The Statistical atlas presents national views of rates. Select a theme by clicking on a theme title. After selecting a rate we are presented with the map page showing the selected rate. Beneath this are various "Options" for altering the mapped rate. The map window on the right can be zoomed and panned. About the data The statistics come from national overviews, including Censuses, Surveys and other collated tables. We should also point out that we have not digitised all possible historical statistics.

Historical map uncertainty Historical maps such as the Siegfried map from the 19th century are not only fascinating witnesses over the past of our landscape; they also hold useful information for scientific evaluation of changes over time within this landscape. To incorporate the historical information into Geographical Information Systems (GIS) the needed information has to be extracted. Therefore, pattern recognition methods are applied. In using geographic data from historical map for subsequent target applications different sources of uncertainty occur. The nature of uncertainty has to be understood in its entire complexity to realize a systematic investigation. Uncertainty arises in different stages of map production and field survey, during transformation, digitization, processing and preprocessing of the data and due to the intended application.

18th Century shipping mapped using 21st Century technology | News Last month we looked at an example of an old mapping style being applied to modern data. This time it's the other way round. James Cheshire, of Spatial Analysis, has taken historical records of shipping routes between 1750 and 1800 and plotted them using modern mapping tools. The first map, above, shows journeys made by British ships. Cross-Atlantic shipping lanes were among the busiest, but the number of vessels traveling to what was than called the East Indies - now India and South-East Asia - also stands out when compared to Dutch and Spanish records (see below). If you look carefully you can also make out Captain Cook's voyages, including his two global circumnavigations. This second map shows the same data for Dutch boats. You can also see the scattering of journeys made by Dutch ships to Svalbard, off the North coast of the Norwegian mainland. The third map shows Spanish shipping routes, and immediately stands out from the other two. • Who made these graphics? NEW! More open data

oldmapsonline - Google Code Repository for new software tools and patches of existing open-source tools, which are usable for libraries, archives, museums as well as individuals, who are publishing scanned old maps and other historical documents. Development is supported by a R&D grant DC08P02OUK006 - Old Maps Online (www.oldmapsonline.org) from Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Project objectives: Development of a technology and a pilot system to allow memory institutions to reliably georeference and publish maps and other graphic documents. Publications: Tiles as an approach to on-line publishing of scanned old maps, vedute and other historical documents (in print). Development plans: Online Georeference Tool OpenLayers: support for Zoomify Tiles patch structure (testing). gcps2kml - tools for generating best transformation (ideal non-proportional bounding box with rotation) for KML from given set of GCPs. Raster map warping server - for precise rectification of raster maps based on GCP database

This Interactive Map Compares the New York City of 1836 to Today Zooming out to view this 1836 map of New York in full, the map’s artistic merit immediately becomes apparent – the scrolled border and detailed views speak to a gentle use for this map. Unlike other, smaller maps, this map was less functional and more aesthetic: it was a wall map, used to adorn the walls of people’s private homes and offices. Rumsey remains struck by its beauty, explaining that it’s one of his favorite maps. “There’s a historian named Stokes who wrote six volumes on the history of Manhattan, and he called this map perhaps one of the most beautiful maps of Manhattan in the 19th century. It’s artistically quite amazing.” The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s. The park wasn’t in the original plan for the city; in 1853, the state of New York empowered the city to acquire more than 700 acres of land under eminent domain to create the expanse.