Showing only Notes + Links tagged maps
Here is the front of Jason Polan’s—awesome!—hand drawn map of the Art Fairs and Other Useful Spots. Though the scale may be a little off, you will find all the major fairs, museums, some nice galleries + shops, Marfa, Texas, Taco Bell, and TWO zoos. Well played, Mr. Polan.
In addition to chasing celebrities (last year I may or may not have been following Chuck Close around The Armory Show), you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the Jen Bekman Projects | 20x200 Street Team who will be handing out free totes, maps, popcorn, and a few more things that are clever, useful, hilarious and still top secret!
(via jenbee)
Threw together a bunch of images from the /tagged/maps and /search/maps pages of Notes + Links yesterday while brainstorming for a project to map a journey. I was really happy to be able to find instant images + backstories on lots of these images, some of which I remembered only vaguely. It was a good reminder of how useful this site is, but also how incomplete it is. During the presentation, I kept remembering things that I like but never posted and thinking, “AHHH I have to add that before I forget again!”
The plan is to take my collected personal data (5 Year Diary, Foursquare, Last.fm, Mousetracks) and do something-to-be-determined that makes it more interesting or at least less sterile.
Finland’s Unnamed Islands, 2000, by Nina Katchadourian
Paper map fragments between microscope slides on aluminum shelves, 1 foot x 8 feet
I cut out hundreds of islands that were nameless from an atlas of Finland. These clusters were placed between microscope slides on long aluminum shelves.
I am partial to this because of my heritage, but also because it is awesome! One of the few standout pieces in the otherwise laborious but predictable show Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Art and Design.
Cahill-Keyes Megamap prototypes
Fig 7. Another view of the Megamap’s 16-panel assembly prototype, toward a template for the graticule, with a closer view of the Maritime provinces outtake. A single octant would be 62 square meters. The 20 x 40 meter Megamap comprises 800 square meters, but the graticule and geographic contents only occupy 496 of those square-meter panels; the rest are backdrop. The square accent lines now enclose a grid of 200 x 200 mm, where each millimeter represents a kilometer: i.e., a 1/1,000,000 map. These panels were hand-drafted in pencil, using x-y coordinates manually compiled from a Sharp EL-515 calculator, and others output with a BASIC program.
© 1978, 1980, 2009 by Gene Keyes
Photo by Peter Weeks, 1983-10-21
This is an animation illustrating Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map Projection of Earth. While this animation is not mathematically accurate, I think it’s a good illustration of the concept.
Basically, Fuller started with the data for the spherical Earth surface. He projected the data from the sphere onto an icosahedron — the twenty- sided Platonic solid — and then unfolded that icosahedron out flat.
The advantages of this method are many: for one thing, it’s possible to align the surface data with the icosahedron in such a way that, when unfolded, no landmass is cut into, which allows us to see the Earth’s landmasses as one continent (this is where my illustration falls short; note that the landmass is cut into in a couple of spots); also, this method results in nearly no distortion of either size or shape of the landmasses, unlike most other projections (the familiar classroom Mercator map or the Peters projection, for example).
Advertising Inside Google Street View - PSFK)
Google is looking to take advantage of existing advertising space inside the virtual world of Google Street View.
The company has recently filed a patent to automatically cut out billboards inside street view and replace them with new ads.
(via dayofthedreamweavers)
Like Powers of Ten, except astronomically accurate. It’s not a dramatization, it’s a map; the positioning data was pulled from Hayden Planetarium’s Digital Universe Atlas, which is available for free download.
(via Kottke)
What is Affordable Housing? is a great interactive map of NYC that makes a really complex set of data easy to grok.
The beautifully designed toolkit consists of the interactive map above, a downloadable pdf guidebook, and a rearrangeable felt chart*:
The Envisioning Development Toolkit is a set of teaching tools designed to help experts and laypeople communicate. Advocates, policy wonks, community board members, developers, and others can use the tools as a centerpiece for workshops and conversations that describe and clarify problems and propose and communicate solutions.
The Toolkit is visual, tactile, and interactive. Each tool translates abstract concepts and language into straightforward activities and physical objects that let people learn by looking, doing, and listening to each other. Participants teach themselves and others as they use the tools. Concepts and jargon turn out to be less complicated than they seem.
It’s put together by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, an organization that uses the power of visual arts and design to help people communicate about urban issues. I highly recommend downloading the book (pdf) and flipping through, it’s absolutely fascinating, easy to read, and important to understand.
*which I first came across (and loved!) a few months ago while exploring the Center for Architecture with Liza!
