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Inside The Most Amazing Map Library That You've Never Heard Of | Atlas Obscura
The American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. (Photo: Luke Spencer.) Within the campus of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a geographer’s treasure trove: over a million artifacts from the American Geographical Society, one of the most incredible collections of maps, atlases and globes to be found in America. But, ironically, the library is practically unexplored territory. It's an inconspicuous home for a storied collection: this is the final resting place of the library of the illustrious American Geographical Society. Faculty members of the geography department at UWM heard what was happening and applied. It took 16 trucks to move the vast collection, where it lives and is actively curated today in the Golda Meir Library. The 'rare room' of the Library containing some of its most valuable items. Photograph taken by Belmore Browne of the expedition to climb the Ruth Glacier, Alaska. The oldest map in the collection dates from 1452. Dr.
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. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. 2. Click to enlarge. Human beings first left Africa about 60,000 years ago in a series of waves that peopled the globe. 3. (Wikimedia commons) The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. 4. Click to enlarge. This map shows the Spanish and Portuguese empires at their height. 5. This map shows British, Dutch and Spanish shipping routes from 1750 to 1800. 6. 7. 8.
La carte Lego de J.R. Schmidt - Pacha cartographie | Cartographe géomaticien professionnel
Les cartes nous permettent d’observer le monde par l’intermédiaire de divers objets : posters à épingler au mur, globes terrestres et autres moulages plastiques topographiques. En voici un nouveau à ajouter à la liste : la représentation en lego! Vous savez, ces petites briques multicolores que vous assembliez minutieusement pour construire une belle voiture ou un château fort (1). En y regardant de plus près avec un œil de cartographe, ces petites briques élémentaires sont une analogie parfaite des pixels qui composent les versions informatiques des cartographies actuelles ; une grande partie des représentations de données et des images satellites numériques est en effet au format raster et fournit ainsi une base naturelle pour recréer les formes du monde. C’est précisément la méthode utilisée ici par l’artiste J.R. La carte en entier : Une carte originale et pleine de couleurs qui m’a rappelé celles de mon enfance. Plus de détails sur le site Web de J.R. Sur le même thème 23 février 2014
USGS Historical Topographic Maps
Accessing historical topographic maps has never been easier TopoView highlights one of the USGS's most important and useful products, the topographic map. In 1879, the USGS began to map the Nation's topography. This interface was created by the National Geologic Map Database project (NGMDB), in support of topographic mapping program managed by the National Geospatial Program (NGP). Packed with new features and downloadable file formats The maps shown through topoView are from the USGS’s Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC). GeoTIFF – The GeoTIFF files are a compressed, 300 dpi TIFF image format, with embedded georeferencing information so that the map can be used directly in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Send us your feedback We're pleased to offer these formats to you, and invite you to explore the collection of historical topographic maps.
40 maps that explain the world
By Max Fisher By Max Fisher August 12, 2013 Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled "40 maps they didn't teach you in school," one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable. A majority are original to this blog, with others from a variety of sources. I've included a link for further reading on close to every one. [Additional read: How Ukraine became Ukraine and 40 more maps that explain the world] Click to enlarge.
This Roy Lichtenstein-Themed Map Makes Pop Art of The World
Katie Kowalsky hadn’t always known she wanted to be a cartographer. In fact, she started out as an economics major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but somewhere along the line, stumbled onto cartography. Doing so was the “best mistake” she ever made, she writes at her blog. I had always wanted something that was an amalgam of history, art, computer science, geography, and design. Her Lichtenstein-esque world map is just that. She based it on the work of the iconic mid-20th century pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, whose art she admires. Translating that style to a world map at 22 zoom levels came with some challenges for Kowalsky. It required a lot of thinking about how to incorporate a Lichtenstein color scheme at every zoom level without it being hard on the eyes. Here’s the map of London at three zoom levels, showing what the vivid colors and details of Kowalsky’s map: New Delhi, India Philadelphia Paris Chicago Amsterdam
Wagner & Debes Cartographers
English: The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was important German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, who worked with cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 Heinrich Wagner, son of Eduard Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Paysages de papier
Des paysages de papier pour dire l’érosion de la culture… C’est ce que propose l’artiste canadien Guy Laramee, à travers toute une série d’oeuvres plastiques originales conçues à partir de livres anciens extrudés, creusés et sculptés comme autant de paysages nés de l’érosion. Partant du constat que le livre est mourant et que « les bibliothèques, en tant que lieu, sont finies », il en tire les conséquences sur la réalité de la culture, conçue comme autant de montagnes érodées, uses et transformées par le passage du temps. Une culture en remplace une autre comme une forme de relief en recouvre une autre. L’approche réaliste et presque illusionniste de son travail apparaît dans ce qui pourrait être perçu comme des maquettes ou des trompe l’oeil. Ces sculptures illustrent donc littéralement l’idée de « paysage culturel », tant débattue par les géographes, de manière directe et spectaculaire. WordPress: J'aime chargement… Sur le même thème 18 septembre 2014 Dans "Cartographica" 11 mai 2014
