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reading Brians coast to coast post, i noticed he likes looking at maps. i love maps (and those cool photographic atlases too). so, who else loves maps? why are they so intriguing? post links to good maps (they make good wallpaper don't you think?)

― gareth, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maps, to me, are an instrument of hope... that is, hope to explore the unexplored. I often borrow that analogy for more figurative use. But all you had to do to shut me up as a kid was give me a Thomas Bros. map, and I'd stare and stare at the pages for hours, wondering what those funny little grids look like in real life.

I used to pace back and forth in my backyard as a kid coming up with my own cities, my own counties, and names for certain streets in suburbs. Maps are one of the basic roots of creativity for me, and maybe they'll have something to do with my future occupation.. who knows.

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/lieland/m0-0.html

this is a fantastic exhibition: medieval-era oriental maps that graph countries' size by how "important" they are, an astonishing 19th century British map of Africa with different colours for how likely the natives are to reject christianity in each region (in the key, the bright red areas read as something like "half-beast, barbarian animists") and best of all, a nazi invasion map of the orkney islands circa 1940, with a 1945 map of stricken Berlin defences printed on the other side, apparently re-used due to paper shortages in the closing days of the war. Also, a victorian map of London with a key for the different areas of each social class (again, the black areas - e.g. Whitechapel- denote "congenitally criminal hordes").

― Alasdair, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i second alasdair re exhib at british library: go see in person

there's a map of the world on which canada is annotated (from memory) "wasteland inhabited only by a few scots and frenchmen, entirely surrounded by tribes of cannibals"

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maps excite me on so many levels. I love the minutiae of litttle sqiggles that represent the worl out side. I can paw for hours over the many maps I have, of places I've been, plans I formulated. Theres a tingle of excitement looking over my hymalayan maps with their impossibly high contours and thinking, I was there, I walked that path, climbed that hill.

Hell, even the A-Z is fun looking at hown cities fit together, connecting all of those 'islands round tube stations', as a friend used to call them. The tube map is imprinted on my brain, filed next to the subway of new york, the simple metros of Rome and Milan and the busses and trams of Turin.

I love mapping sites, particularly multipmap, look here's where I grew up.

― Ed, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paw or pore? The former is quite scary.

― Emma, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coo I fancy a visit to that exhibition m'self... *ponders* now I am free on Saturday for a visit? I think I shall go!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maps are so cool. especially ones that show my childhood home, complete with golf course .

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes I love maps, for all the usual reasons - fantasy, escapism, nostalgia etc. Apart from looking at them when I'm at home, I get a lot of pleasure from confirming details when out on a walk. It makes me feel in control. I don't understand how some people are happy to wander about leaving someone else in total charge of where they're going.

― David Inglesfield, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maps are GRATE. the surveying and cartography courses i did for my Geography degree were fascinating.

London Photographic Atlas - saw this at a friend's house the other day - very interesting seeing the areas you live and work in from the air.

― michael, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I should have been a cartographer

― RickyT, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another map fan here, no question. Some of those maps in the exhibit sound fascinating, I'd love to see them. Me being the fantasy freak I am, I fell head over heels for Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-earth when I first encountered it back in 1984. And recently I've been pondering maps of New Zealand for my trip. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Map s Own Yo' Bitch Ass!

― Kodanshi, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the exhibition at the british library has taken me 1.5 hrs to get round a 3rd of it. it tis the best exhibition ihave ever been to....luv it

― ambrose, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only things decorating my walls are maps.

― Kris, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

is there any way to get a look at the maps from the british library exhibition online?

― dav¡d (Cozen), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I love maps. This is because I have no sense of direction and a fear of being lost - you know where you are with maps. I personally like the NZMS 1:50 000 series, and working maps with notes from past surveyors etc. If I am giving someone directions I draw a map, then get caught up in the process and over-embellish.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too! I'll add landmarks on roads they're not even supposed to take. There is the slender justification that if they get lost on one of those roads they'll be able to reorient themselves.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, exactly: often I am on the wrong road thinking "did s/he mention a church?" and if they had done a proper map I'd know where the church was.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

recommend me a good road atlas for a US visitor to the UK!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.laylacurtis.com/edit1big.jpg

― run it off (run it off), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

CORNWALL WILL YET OWN YOU

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

some fuXor (as I believe the expression is) has stolen my all time favourite most information rich, six different surveys painstakingly hand drawn map. heads will roll. This is why I want a GIS.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

maybe everyone knows this but I just found out that you can go to the streets department in your city and get enormous gorgeous maps of your area for very cheap, it's like five bucks here.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm a map, it's the only good thing about my name.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't love you like I love you (/obvious)

― Aaron A., Friday, 4 March 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

my initials are MAP too.

i can't get enough of them; i'd rather sit and stare at a map for hours than watch tv. i've been obsessed with them since childhood. if i need to calm down, relieve stress or focus on something to keep me from falling asleep while i listen to music, i'll pull out a map.

brian m. OTM three years ago -- to me they're always an undeniable sign of everything mysterious, obscure and unknowable about the world and about life itself.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading a map is like a good book. Craggy coastlines and islands draw my closest scutiny.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 5 March 2005 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I love maps.

― luna's cee, Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to go through all these old national geographics and take the maps

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

I love maps and this seems fascinating:

Historical maps overlaid on Google Maps
http://kottke.org/13/05/historical-maps-overlaid-on-google-maps

But when I go over to David's site, I can't figure out how to view the overlaid maps.

― I will forlornly return to my home planet soon (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:51 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Kurdish_states_1835.png/709px-Kurdish_states_1835.png

― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:08 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/hHnrN.jpg

― ogmor, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:34 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Saharan_topographic_elements_map.png/1200px-Saharan_topographic_elements_map.png

― ogmor, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:05 (eleven years ago)

oh man that seasonal one

― goole, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 20:09 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/9nc7eFk.jpg

― the ﬁnal twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 01:29 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.phaidon.com/resource/9780714869445-prodphoto-1.jpg

There was a story about this new book from Phaidon, Map, on NPR last night and I had it ordered before the story was even finished. My wife's going to flip for this.

― Phlegm Snopes (WilliamC), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:12 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOBGv8sXUAEBm2B?format=jpg&name=900x900

The Roman Empire vs. the Mongol Empire at their peaks

― calzino, Saturday, 11 January 2020 22:16 (six years ago)

three months pass...

love these population density maps

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWzOI3DXQAAbHir?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXFL-EEXsAE7uJN?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXH1priWoAMNjs8?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXGuQP2WoAQZUKW?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXHRg9lX0Acjmc0?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXHw_fCWAAARNKT?format=jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW9iYC8XQAA2Drj?format=jpg

I decided to create a few more European population density renders - you can find more here if you need a break from the doomscrolling:https://t.co/W2IOcBrYRi pic.twitter.com/728CFRTekn
— Alasdair Rae (@undertheraedar) April 29, 2020

― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 4 May 2020 22:58 (five years ago)

one month passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eaq6PX9UwAAQjcz?format=jpg&name=large

everywhere arranged by descending size, without mercator projection

― calzino, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:42 (five years ago)

Heh, the UK is only slighter bigger than Romania.

That China's land surface is larger than Canada's is news to me.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 23:46 (five years ago)

Still think the UK looks too big there

― or something, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:57 (five years ago)

I think Canada/China depends on whether you count the lakes as land or not?

― rumpy riser (ogmor), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:37 (five years ago)

I think that's it, yes, but I still found it surprising.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 13:48 (five years ago)

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