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A Map, for a workshop last week. Mapping of oneself as a designer. I kind of decided to do the mapping with emphasis on the playing around with graphic layouting and the form of the map. A lot of glue-stick went in to this one as I did it all by hand on a A2-sheet of paper. It was a nice sunday-fun.
Used in classrooms to help draw maps. I had loads of these during my schooling in the 80s.
I want to know if these were made in other countries? Finland? Japan? South Africa? Argentina?
Let me know!
Used in classrooms to help draw maps. I had loads of these during my schooling in the 80s.
I want to know if these were made in other countries? Finland? Japan? South Africa? Argentina?
Let me know!
A wartime map, which is covered in strange coded notes. See a detailed section of the map with some more information (and speculations!)
A typical world map in the captain's chamber of a recreated 16th century "Golden Age" Dutch trading ship, at the "Bataviawerf" in Lelystad, the Netherlands.
Map of irrigation areas and artesian basins in Australia from a thrifted atlas; kangaroo from a kid's magazine; aboriginal-style representation of a watering hole.
Sent to Martij for a PIF thread.
Wonderful bronze three dimensional estate map outside Cuthbert Harrowing House on Golden Lane Estate, City of London.
1968 was the year the Victoria line opened, the first new line in 50 years, and the first major shift to the tube map in 35 years.
To celebrate the London Underground's 150th anniversary, TfL commissioned five reproductions of tube maps from different periods, all made in Lego by Duncan Titmarsh, LEGO professional. Each map took approximately 4 days to complete and contained over 1,000 bricks.
The five maps come from different periods of London Undergound's history and were held at different stations over the summer:
1927 - designed by Fred Stingemore - this would be the last iteration of the map as a geographical overlay (at South Kensington)
1933 - Harry Beck's revolutionary design - the tube map became a diagram (at Piccadilly Circus)
1968 - adding the Victoria Line - the first tube line for 50 years (at Green Park)
2013 - the modern tube - the network as it is today (at Stratford)
2020 - the future view - at the tube will look in 2020 (at King's Cross)
I am not sure if this is still on the station at Beverley, it either used to be by the booking office or on one of the Platforms, anyway its a NER map of some age seen on 22nd May 1975.
My first attempt at a clear graphic design map of Amtrak's services to all points north and east of New York City, current as of 2009. Not to scale, but I try to walk the line between clear abstract route map and adherence to geography following the "classic subway map" designs. I've included brief information about which potential major connections are possible, schedule-wise, and which aren't; and I've included two non-Amtrak services, the Lake Champlain ferry and the MBTA BOS-BON connection.
This 2013 map shows the locations of the ARM Facility sites (past and present) on the North Slope.
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Map of the proposed 51st state of Baja Arizona. Feel free to use this in your publications, blogs etc.... as long as you credit loststates.com
From loststates.com
Taken from here, this is a map showing the areas in East Africa where the Swahili language is spoken, whether as a first or a second language.
Từ khi được con người tìm thấy, cà phê đã là một loại cây bụi mọc hoang dã trong các khu rừng ở Ethiopia và miền nam Sudan, ngày nay các bụi cây cà phê hoang sơ vẫn được tìm thấy ở một số khu rừng của Ethiopia. Cho đến trước những năm 1970, hầu hết cà phê vẫn được trồng trong các hệ thống nông học truyền thống (bắt chước các khu rừng tự nhiên). Tuy nhiên, với sự ra đời của phân bón tổng hợp và sau đó là Cách mạng xanh để tăng sản lượng và chống lại bệnh gỉ sắt (nghi ngờ do các cây che bóng gây ra), các nhà nông học đã giới thiệu hệ thống độc canh “Full Sun”. Khi đó hầu hết các trang trại bị phá rừng, cà phê được trồng trong hàng rào dày đặc và cho phân bón hóa học và thuốc trừ sâu nặng.
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A map taken from the 1919 Ward Lock Guide to London.
Uploaded to mark the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway and the 80th anniversary of the first publication of Harry Beck's classic "schematic diagram".
Beck's innovation was the show the stations exactly the same distance apart, thereby enlarging the central section for greater clarity and removing the large amounts of empty space shown in this map.
The book itself isn't dated, but the map appears to be dated "2-19". This seems to be confirmed by the fact that the Central Line extension to Ealing Broadway opened on 3 August 1920.
I am a daily mind map user. It is part of the GTD (Getting Things
Done) practice I learned from David Allens book. I was thrilled to see
that the iPhone now has a excellent mind map program that is
compatible with the java based Freemind program. This is iBlueSky
which I just started using today.
This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. The moon's large, distinguishing crater, Herschel, is seen on the map at left. The map is an equidistant (simple cylindrical) projection and has a scale of 216 meters (710 feet) per pixel at the equator. The mean radius of Mimas used for projection of this map is 198.2 kilometers (123.2 miles). The resolution of the map is 16 pixels per degree.
Ok, instead of making a simple image, I made a google map that we'll be able to re-use :)
The tiny 64x64 pixel icons of people's face are here: protei.org/download/people/
So I had this idea: if you plotted all the major airports in the world, how much would the result resemble a map?
I found a database of airports with country, latitude & longitude etc (http://www.kingwoodcable.com/gpswaypoints/index.htm) and a list of three-letter IATA airport codes (http://www.photius.com/wfb2001/airport_codes_alpha.html).
A bit o' the old PostScript codin' later and I had this. Here I'm showing major and minor airports and colouring them too. Because I can.
A map from 'Mapping and valuing ecosystem services in the Ewaso Ng'iro Watershed', 2011 (map credit: ILRI/WRI).
This is a topo map using only data that my GPSr collected. For each grid cell, I’ve averaged the elevations I’ve observed there.
You can see some clear errors. I’ve never teleported across the Columbia, and Fremont does not have a ski ramp. You can also see how much the giant metal surfaces downtown screw with GPS signals.
The color cycles every 128 m. The highest point I’ve been to on this map is about 300 m in the West Hills.
For finer details, see this version.
Huguette and I travelled to Portugal in May 2009 where we spent a little over two weeks visiting various interesting places in the northern half of the country. (We plan to do the south including southwest Spain next year). Our vacation began in Lisbon where we stayed for four days, then rented a car and moved about 75 km north to a charming little town called Óbidos where we stayed another four days, then on to Guimarães, some 250 km from Óbidos in the northern part of the country where we also stayed four days, and then to Fundão in the east for two more days before coming back home to Canada.
In Lisbon we walked and walked and walked some more, mostly in the Baixa (lower town) and also in the old district of Alfama which dates back to the Moorish occupation (8th to 12th century); visited Belém where famous monuments celebrating the Portuguese overseas discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries have been erected; and took in a night of Fados, the traditional melancholic Lisboan music that is certain to make you cry even if you don't understand the words.
On our way to Óbidos we stopped at Sintra and visited the Palácio Nacional, one of many things to see in that lovely town. From Óbidos we visited the seaside resorts of Peniche, Nazaré and São Martinho do Porto (a short distance from Nazaré to the south). We also saw two beautiful gothic masterpieces, one at Batalha where King John 1st had this absolutely majestic building erected to commemorate the victory of his troops against the invading forces of D. Juan of Castille in the battle of Aljubarrota (1385). The second was the Monastery of Alcobaça the construction of which began in 1178 by the religious order of Cister. Both Alcobaça and Batalha are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
In Guimarães we took time to visit this beautiful historical city, Portugal's first capital and the birthplace of its first king, Don Alfonso Henriques. We also drove to the Douro Valley, famous for its vineyards that produce the world renowned Port wine. The stretch between the towns of Peso da Régua and Pinhão is very accessible and particularly beautiful.
Our last stop was in - or rather near - Fundão, in a little village called Aldeia Nova do Cabo famous for its cherries which were being harvested when we were there. We spent two nights in Aldeia Nova, so we had only one full day to visit. We spent it very enjoyably, I must say, touring the region around Serra da Estrela, Portugal's highest mountain.
To all our visitors, we do hope that you will enjoy the photos in this set which should give you a good idea of what Huguette and I saw and did on this trip.