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World Transport Links and US Climate from The National Geographic over a Century ago
Following my previous post I have been digging around archive.org for interesting spatial/ geographical related resources. A search for “geographic” yielded a number of back issues of the National Geographic Magazine. They date back as far as 1888 and contain some great images and maps. There are some real gems to be had, such as ...
Spin Off Tube Maps
I am currently reading Denis Wood’s excellent “Rethinking the Power of Maps“. In it he draws attention to Geoff Marshall‘s silly underground maps project. The project, and subsequent legal challenge from TFL, had completely passed me by. The website (now hosted here) contains as series of excellent spin off maps from Harry Beck’s famous original. ...
Tales from the (former) LSE Geography Map Room
Last week I heard that the London School of Economics Geography Department was disposing of its maps and that anyone interested was free to rescue them. My first reaction was one of surprise as maps are one of the few things geographers are associated with, so it doesn’t seem right to have a geography department ...
A Method of Representing Large, Multidimensional Datasets in a Single Map
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Embedded below is my presentation to the British Cartographic Society’s Annual Conference 2010, held in Nottingham. You will find high resolution versions of many of the maps featured in the presentation available for download on this blog. British Cartogtraphic Society Annual Conference Talk View more presentations from James Cheshire.
Magnificent Maps
Last Sunday I visited the Magnificent Maps Exhibition at the British Library. The exhibition has been hugely popular and I can see why- I thoroughly enjoyed my visit. The amount of information within the maps means I want to make a second visit. My favourite map overall was the Klenke Atlas for its sheer size ...
Update: New London Tube Map
Mark Easton reports on his blog that the Thames is back on the tube map!
New London Tube Map: When cartography matters
It is amazing that every day we view maps and rarely think twice about the amount of information they show, or consider them abstractions of reality representing the map maker’s view of the world. This is one of the major criticisms of GIS and spatial science as many believe it is impossible to represent the ...
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