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#SundayNightMapNerdTime I like good six word stories. They tell you a lot with so little. As a cartographer, I can relate to that. Maps are synopic designs, meaning they're to be interpreted as a whole. Problem is, we've only got about eight seconds (+/-
#SundayNightMapNerdTime I like good six word stories. They tell you a lot with so little. As a cartographer, I can relate to that. Maps are synopic designs, meaning they're to be interpreted as a whole. Problem is, we've only got about eight seconds (+/- whatever) to either 1) grab your attention and make you stick around longer or 2) get main message across. A good map does both of these things. Customers sometimes laugh when I tell them that maps tell stories. No, they do, sometimes literally. This map tells a story -- an alternate history of North America -- that was created by one alteration of our historical timeline back in the mid-19th Century, playing forward until today. Does this map, then, tell a story? If it does, consider yourself a co-writer, because all of us fill will in the details of that timeline a little differently. #map #cartography #mapping #althistory via Instagram ift.tt/2J5L4xS
#SundayNightMapNerdTime I like good six word stories. They tell you a lot with so little. As a cartographer, I can relate to that. Maps are synopic designs, meaning they're to be interpreted as a whole. Problem is, we've only got about eight seconds (+/-
#SundayNightMapNerdTime I like good six word stories. They tell you a lot with so little. As a cartographer, I can relate to that. Maps are synopic designs, meaning they're to be interpreted as a whole. Problem is, we've only got about eight seconds (+/- whatever) to either 1) grab your attention and make you stick around longer or 2) get main message across. A good map does both of these things. Customers sometimes laugh when I tell them that maps tell stories. No, they do, sometimes literally. This map tells a story -- an alternate history of North America -- that was created by one alteration of our historical timeline back in the mid-19th Century, playing forward until today. Does this map, then, tell a story? If it does, consider yourself a co-writer, because all of us fill will in the details of that timeline a little differently. #map #cartography #mapping #althistory via Instagram ift.tt/2J5L4xS