An experiment at producing a Hachure map, a vintage cartographic style which predates contour lines. Aiming for an 18th century look using 21st century tools and data.

Done in QGIS 2.18.10 using...

- QuickOSM to download the data

- QChainage to get equidistant points round contour lines

- Slope and aspect rasters

- Point sampling tool

- SVG markers rotated according to aspect

- arrow_04.svg (bult-in arrow symbol) gives best results and optical weight IMO, at least when viewed from a distance. I should be less lazy and make my own in Inkscape!

added subtle background (a photo I took of mould-ridden paper, highly transparent but it gives a bit of texture and variety that a white background wouldn't have)

Copperplate Font is Exmouth for that 1750s vibe ;-) It's a bit tricky to read, I know...

Raster source: OS Open Terrain 50 under an OGL licence

Vector source: data copyright OpenStreetMap contributors

Link to same extent in OSM for comparison.

Fun details found along the queue of the Jungle Cruise.

Magic Kingdom | Adventureland | Jungle Cruise

Thanks for looking. I appreciate feedback!

Cartagrophy as storytelling

www.knowledgecartography.org/

We are preparing a seminar in Estonian Art Academy about info visualization and this is one sample of the infographics material we are going to use there.

These are my very own design, fabric exclusive to My Bearded Pigeon, see my profile for details...

Detail of a map showing the Iberian Peninsula in Weltatlas für die Schulen in Bayern. München: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1947.

Names of smaller cities are in a sloping sans serif, names of rivers in a left-leaning sans. Names of seas are in left-leaning sans-serif caps with contrast.

Rendered in Blender. Heightmap was created in GIMP using desaturate, wide radius Guassian blur, followed by posterise.

As a kid, I remember making relief maps like this using styrofoam and a soldering iron. These days it's easier to use Blender (and fume free, too)

The Fool’s Cap Map of the World Frank Jacobs on September 14, 2010, 12:22 AM Jestersmall This rather sinister image is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography. Most often referred to simply as the Fool’s Cap Map of the World, it is unknown why, when, where and by whom it was made. The only thing that can be said about it with some certainty is that it dates from ca. 1580-1590. But sources even differ as to the type of projection used, some referring to it as ptolemaic (i.e. equidistant conic), others claiming it owes more to the techniques of Mercator and/or Ortelius (and being an enthusiast rather than a specialist, I’m not one to call this). The map shows the world ‘dressed up’ in the traditional garb of a court jester: the double-peaked, bell-tipped cap (1) and the jester’s staff (2). The face is hidden (or replaced) by the map, giving the whole image an ominous, threatening quality that feels anachronistically modern. ViewMore FromTagsCommentsShareSendFavoriteTwitterFacebook The archetype of the Fool, presented here in his incarnation as the court jester, is a first indicator of the map’s deeper meaning. In previous ages, the Fool was a court figure allowed to mock majesty and to speak truth to power. These were rare and useful correctives to the corrupting absolutism of the monarchies of the day. But criticism of this sort was only possible if it was de-fanged by the grotesque appearance of the Fool - preferably a hunchbacked, slightly loopy-headed dwarf, i.e. someone not to be taken too seriously. All of this would have been common and current knowledge to the people viewing this map, in the late 16th century. The uncomfortable truth told by this map is that the world is a sombre, irrational and dangerous place, and that life on it is nasty, brutish and short. The world is, quite literally, a foolish place. This is underlined by the mottoes of biblical and classical origin, dotted across the map. The legend in the left panel reads: “Democritus of Abdera laughed at [the world], Heraclitus of Ephesus wept over it, Epichtonius Cosmopolites portrayed it” (3). Over the cap is the Latin version of the Greek dictum, “Know thyself" (4). Across the cap’s brow, the inscription translates as “O head, worthy of a dose of hellebore” (5). The Latin quote just above the map is from Pliny the Elder (6): “For in the whole universe the earth is nothing els e and this is the substance of our glory, this is its habitation, here it is that we fill positions of power and covet wealth, and throw mankind into an uproar, and launch wars, even civil ones.” The reason for so much trouble and strife is explained in the quote below the map, from Ecclesiastes: “The number of fools is infinite” (7). Another quote from that most depressing of Bible books, on the jester’s staff to the right, intones: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (8). Inscribed on the badges adorning the shoulder belt are a few sayings in line with this cheerful message: “Oh, the worries of the world; oh, how much triviality is there in the world” (9), “Everyone is without sense” (10), and “All things are vanity: every man living” (11). For some researchers, the sum of these messages, as well as their presentation in a cartographic setting, point to a little-known Christian sect called the Family of Love. This clandestine group is said to have numbered the Flemish cartographer Ortelius in its ranks. If this map is anything to go by, the Family of Love must have espoused a rather harsh and pessimistic view of the world, and of humanity’s place in it. But much remains conjecture, as indicated also by the last piece of this cartographic puzzle - the name written in its top left corner: Orontius Fineus. This name (the Latinised version of the French name Oronce Finé) is associated with a map dated 1531, purportedly showing an ice-free, river-rich Antarctica. Why would the name of this cartographer crop up on a map made decades later? Could he have been the mapmaker (12)? Or is he the one being made fun of? Many thanks to J.B. Post for alerting me to this map. Many versions to be found online, this high-resolution image found here at Coin des cartes anciennes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) the donkey’s ears referring to the supposed stupidity of the ass. Inscribed on them is the quote Auriculas asini quis non habet, meaning “Who doesn't have donkey's ears?" This witticism is ascribed to Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, a Roman stoic philosopher from the 1st century AD. (2) a parody of the royal staff, a symbol of authority. (3) Democritus Abderites deridebat, Heraclites Ephesius deflebat, Epichthonius Cosmopolitus deformabat. Epichtonius Cosmopolites seems to refer to the maker of the map, but actually means something like ‘Everyman’. (4) Nosce te ipsum, in Greek: gnothi seauton. According to Pausanias, an inscription on Apollinic temple at Delphi. (5) O caput elleboro dignum. Hellebore is a family of mostly poisonous plants, some of which have been used medicinally since Antiquity. It is reputed to induce madness. (6) Hic est mundi punctus et materia gloriae nostrae, hic sedes, hic honores gerimus, hic exercemus imperia, hic opes cupimus, hic tumultuatur humanum genus, hic instauramus bella, etiam civica. From Book 2, Chapter 72 of the Naturalis Historia (‘Natural History’) by Caius Plinius Secundus. (7) Stultorum infinitus est numerus (Ecc. 1:15). (8) Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas (Ecc. 1:2). (9) O curas hominum, O quantum est in rebus inane, the opening quote of Aulus Persius Flaccus’ Satires. (10) Stultus factus est omnis homo (Jer. 10:14). (11) Universa vanitas omnis homo (Psalm 39:6). (12) Not likely; his dates are 1494-1555. Or could the map predate its estimate by about 30 years? subscribe Subscribe (RSS) Previous Post 479 - Gangs of LA Next Post 481 - Strange Lapps and Their Magical Drumming Maps Add a Comment Discuss J. B. Post on September 14, 2010, 8:10 AM This image always makes me think of thos photos of the astronauts with the Moon's surface reflected offf the faceplates. Patrick Chevallier Patrick Chevallier on September 17, 2010, 3:33 PM How weird! Makes me think of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues..."

where (2013) paper, acrylic, pastel, charcoal 253x251mm

here (2013) paper, acrylic, pastel, charcoal 253x251mm

どこ (2013) ワトソン紙、アクリル絵具、パステル、木炭 253x251mm

ここ (2013) ワトソン紙、アクリル絵具、パステル、木炭 253x251mm

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cartography of desire #1

(ocean of silk)

ocean of silk

blue

kimono

my wanting

small as

my hands

where touching

might mean

the sharp

edges of continents

or

the sleek

skin of a sting

ray in the night

deep sinking

not swimming

dreaming

immense

Pacific

lovingly

i'm as

lonely as

the last island

before the seas

don't end

where

dragons once

thought

to swim

where no

sheltering lee

where

only stars

know

only stars

guide

the way

++++

dswoo

I've noticed that in the UK, you can often tell the historic centre of a town or city by the number of roads called 'Street'. These tend to be short, central and residential. Other suffixes like 'road','terrace','place' and so on tend to be more suburban.

Tried this using OpenStreetMap and Norwegian cities. The roads marked in yellow end in '-gate','-gata' or '-gaten'

Roads which end in 'way' ('-vei','-veg' etc.) are shown in red.

QGIS 3.0

Wonder why flickr auto-tagged this as "animal" :-)

Part five of a collab with several other BoBS leaders.

To my esteemed cousin, Henrique Navarrez, First Mate of the EMS Gallant

Dear cousin,

I write this with eyes sore and bleary from copying, and truly, I am tempted to envy you your free and active life on the high seas. I am here penned up in a tiny academy, learning the rudiments of the science of cartography, and in my spare time doing a bit of copyist work, in return for which I bed and board gratis. The life of an academician may be a secure one, but I dearly wish that my parents will one day repent themselves of their decision and allow me to join the army - else I shall be sorely tempted to follow your example and run off to Eslandola. If I could be sure of your luck, I would do it at once.

But enough of that - I have enclosed a journal - a copy I myself have made - of the travels of a certain Father Tholeau, which I think may be of interest. See that you use it wisely however, for in fact I do not think sending it to you is quite what the academy master had in mind when he sent me with it to the copyists' room. Nevertheless, knowing your interest in anything that partakes of the marvelous, I have enclosed the copy and am sending it to you by a safe hand. May the winds always be in your sails, good cousin, and God bless you!

Signed,

Sebastian Navarrez.

Emulating the Soviet military cartographic style using custom QML. You can get the QML files here on github (assumes osm2pgsql)

Using data Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors, Contour Lines from Ordnance Survey Panorama, Crown Copyright and Database rights 2014.

Street names have been transliterated into Cyrillic, not translated into Russian. I used an online tool by Steve Morse. This provided many transliterations for each street name, I just chose the first, so it may not be an optimal transliteration.

Descripción bibliográfica: Geographia Blaviana. - [Amsterdam : Juan Blaeu, 1659] . - [32], VI, 96 p., 34 f., h. 35a, 35b, 35c, 35d, 36-44 f., 34, [2], 36-40, [2], 43-70 [i. e. 75], [1] f., [20] p. de map., [9] f. de map., [4] f. pleg. de map., [2] f. de plan., [2] f. ge grab. : |bil. ; |cFol. marca major (57 cm.) . - En la dedicatoria a Felipe IV: "Presenta ... El Atlas Universal y Cosmographico de los orbes y terrestre ... Juan Blaeu" . - Título tomado del frontispicio. -- Privilegio fechado en 1659. -Errores de pag. - Sign.: [ ]1, *2, **3, ***-****2, a-e2, A-I2, K1, L-Z2, Aa-Dd2, 4[ ]2, Ee-Ff2, A-I2, K1, L2, M1, N-Y2, Z5, Aa-Dd2,

Ee1, A-D2, E-F1, G-I2, K-L1, M-O2, P1, Q-Z2, Aa-Bb2, Cc1, Dd3, Ff-Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2, [ ]. - Frontispicio grab. col. -- Incluye un total de 49 il. entre map., plan. i grab.

Materia: Atlas - Obras anteriores a 1800

Impresor: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, imp.

Lugar de impresión: Holanda. Amsterdam

Localización: fama.us.es/record=b2058758~S5*spi

Vea la ilustración en su contexto

Visite también la exposición "Cartografía histórica en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla" expobus.us.es/cartografia//

Descripción bibliográfica: Geographia Blaviana. - [Amsterdam : Juan Blaeu, 1659] . - [32], VI, 96 p., 34 f., h. 35a, 35b, 35c, 35d, 36-44 f., 34, [2], 36-40, [2], 43-70 [i. e. 75], [1] f., [20] p. de map., [9] f. de map., [4] f. pleg. de map., [2] f. de plan., [2] f. ge grab. : |bil. ; |cFol. marca major (57 cm.) . - En la dedicatoria a Felipe IV: "Presenta ... El Atlas Universal y Cosmographico de los orbes y terrestre ... Juan Blaeu" . - Título tomado del frontispicio. -- Privilegio fechado en 1659. -Errores de pag. - Sign.: [ ]1, *2, **3, ***-****2, a-e2, A-I2, K1, L-Z2, Aa-Dd2, 4[ ]2, Ee-Ff2, A-I2, K1, L2, M1, N-Y2, Z5, Aa-Dd2,

Ee1, A-D2, E-F1, G-I2, K-L1, M-O2, P1, Q-Z2, Aa-Bb2, Cc1, Dd3, Ff-Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2, [ ]. - Frontispicio grab. col. -- Incluye un total de 49 il. entre map., plan. i grab.

Materia: Atlas - Obras anteriores a 1800

Impresor: Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, imp.

Lugar de impresión: Holanda. Amsterdam

Localización: fama.us.es/record=b2058758~S5*spi

Vea la ilustración en su contexto

Visite también la exposición "Cartografía histórica en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla" expobus.us.es/cartografia//

Just a mini version of this:

www.flickr.com/photos/chucksutherland/37622477000

Typ(cart)ography.

The coffee shop had this little globe on the windowsill.

The publication “Passió i cartografia per a un incendi dels ulls” [Passion and cartography for an Eye Fire] is the poetic colophon of the exhibition “Panorama 21. Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (“Panorama 21: Notes for an Eye Fire”) that took place at MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, between October 2021 and February 2022. It includes a new three-part poem–dérive by Gabriel Ventura that decomposes the exhibition’s plurality of voices into a kind of textual topography.

As part of the exhibition’s public programme, on January 13, 2022, Ventura and the flamenco singer Pere Martínez recited and sang the verses during a performative guided tour that took visitors through the museum galleries.

Designed by Ana Domínguez Studio, the book also features photo-documentation of the works in the exhibition, as well as a ghostly evocation of its graphic identity—translucent pages that seem to veil the images and words with billowing smoke clouds and flashes of energy.

—

The exhibition “Panorama 21. Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (“Panorama 21: Notes for an Eye Fire”) took place at MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona between October 22, 2021 and February 27, 2022. With the participation of Ana Domínguez, El Palomar (Mariokissme y R. Marcos Mota), Laia Estruch, Arash Fayez, Antoni Hervàs, Rasmus Nilausen, nyamnyam (Ariadna Rodríguez and Iñaki Álvarez) in collaboration with Pedro Pineda, Claudia Pagès, Aleix Plademunt, Marria Pratts, Stella Rahola Matutes, Eulàlia Rovira, Ruta de autor (Aymara Arreaza R. and Lorena Bou Linhares), Adrian Schindler, Rosa Tharrats, Gabriel Ventura, and Marc Vives. Curated by Hiuwai Chu and Latitudes.

Photo: Gemma Planell.

Long before electronic computers existed, cartographers used mechanical slide rules such as this to perform various mathematical calculations.

© Aerofototeca Nazionale - ICCD

WEB SITE:

iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/553/fondi-cartografici

TITLE:

Carta geologica d'Italia. Foglio 85: Castelnovo ne' Monti

RESPONSIBILITY:

Servizio geologico d'Italia

EDITION:

2. Edizione

SCALE:

1:100 000

PUBLICATION:

[S.l. : s.n.], 1968 (Firenze : E.I.R.A.)

DESCRIPTION:

1 carta geografica : color. ; 59 x 77 cm

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A gift from a lovely stranger. Isn't it beautiful?

Water a (2013) paper, acrylic, pastel, charcoal 253x251mm

Water b (2013) paper, acrylic, pastel, charcoal 253x251mm

水のこと a (2013) ワトソン紙、アクリル絵具、パステル、木炭 253x251mm

水のこと b (2013) ワトソン紙、アクリル絵具、パステル、木炭 253x251mm

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cartography of desire #1

(i followed)

i followed

moving

water

i sparked

fire

from

desire

burning

a horizon

line

setting

sun

the color

blood

diluted

with

seawater

a wooden

boat

painted

by children

ferried

me out

into

currents

unseen

whales

breached

gulls

circled

and

the deep

below

darkened

unknowable

i prayed

a wind

i prayed

a port of call

i named

each of you

who

might read

this note

without

a bottle

somewhere

we will

and

when we

do

i'll remind

you

how we

felt

before

we found

this last

hope

this

belief

oh

yes

the possibles

and

the faith

it takes

+++++

dswoo

Designed using QGIS 2.18

Data by cadaei, released under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=30472

Part five of a collab with several other BoBS leaders.

To my esteemed cousin, Henrique Navarrez, First Mate of the EMS Gallant

Dear cousin,

I write this with eyes sore and bleary from copying, and truly, I am tempted to envy you your free and active life on the high seas. I am here penned up in a tiny academy, learning the rudiments of the science of cartography, and in my spare time doing a bit of copyist work, in return for which I bed and board gratis. The life of an academician may be a secure one, but I dearly wish that my parents will one day repent themselves of their decision and allow me to join the army - else I shall be sorely tempted to follow your example and run off to Eslandola. If I could be sure of your luck, I would do it at once.

But enough of that - I have enclosed a journal - a copy I myself have made - of the travels of a certain Father Tholeau, which I think may be of interest. See that you use it wisely however, for in fact I do not think sending it to you is quite what the academy master had in mind when he sent me with it to the copyists' room. Nevertheless, knowing your interest in anything that partakes of the marvelous, I have enclosed the copy and am sending it to you by a safe hand. May the winds always be in your sails, good cousin, and God bless you!

Signed,

Sebastian Navarrez.

Image showing a photo from the Daniel Boschungs portrait series "Face Cartography" in the Deep Space 8K of the Ars Electronica Center.

The standardized portraits have a surprising impact. Each picture consists of about 600 single shots with a size of 900 million pixels. The result is hyper realistic. A stubble turns into a trunk, a wrinkle into a canyon, the nostril into a cavern.

Ars Electronica Center

Ars-Electronica-Straße 1

4040 Linz

Austria

credit: Ars Electronica / Christopher Sonnleitner

I have an Arctic northern coast, craggy and with little softness to be found in the hard angles and steep ravines. I have a heather moor which roars in the wind, coarse, with gentler undulations prone to misting rain. I have a haunted bayou that only sees the sun at noon, dotted with the wet footprints of creatures ancient and carnivorous. My heart, though, lives in a distant chain of mountains, veined by ores seen only in alchemists' dreams.

25 Feb 2007

Atlas de Battista Agnese [Manuscrito]

Autor personal: Agnese, Battista (m. 1564)

Publicación: 1544

Descripción física: 16 h. : perg. ; 20 x 14 cm.

Nota tít. y men. res: Nota en h. 12: Baptista Agnese fecit Venetiis 1544 die primo julii

Nota sobre ilustrac. Arte italiano. Quince láminas iluminadas, a página entera, con mapas y figuras geográficas muy bellas en vivos colores, adornadas con angelotes sobre nubes

RES/176

Consulta el registro bibliográfico en la Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BDH)

Más información sobre la colección de cartas portulanas de la Biblioteca en el Blog

© Aerofototeca Nazionale - ICCD

WEB SITE:

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TITLE:

Carta geologica d'Italia. Foglio 235: Villasimius

RESPONSIBILITY:

R. ufficio geologico

SCALE:

1:100 000

PUBLICATION:

[S.l. : s.n.], 1940 (Roma : Stab. Luigi Salomone)

DESCRIPTION:

1 carta geografica : color. ; 60 x 70 cm

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