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This is a "map" I made several years ago inspired by the famous Alfred Korzybski quote, "The Map is not the Territory". The scale of the map is 1 foot = 1 foot
I recently came across this very related quote from Jean Baudrillard referencing a story by Jorge Luis Borges by way of Kevin Kelly's book, "Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines".
"French pop-philosopher Jean Baudrillard opens his small book, Simulations (1983), with these two tightly wound paragraphs:
If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few threads still discernible in the deserts...) then this fable has come full circle for us...
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory -- PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA -- it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself."
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The maps here are neither accurate nor precise, it doesn't reflect the real path that I travelled
41. Grand Prix Osterhas, Kategorie Elite, am Ostersamstag, 16. April 2022 in Affoltern am Albis.
Foto Martin Platter
A map from the Worldmapper World Population Atlas: www.worldpopulationatlas.org
(c) Sasi Research Group, University of Sheffield
Место отправки - Ковров - maps.google.com/?q=56.3667,41.3333&z=16 от yamaos оригинал - www.instagram.com/p/_7DwV_l-vM/
Exercise Jebel Sahara - Joint military exercise between the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and the 2nd Parachute Batalion of the Royal Moroccan armed forces. Held near Marrakech every two years.
© DM Parody 2012
Notice anything funny about that map? I swear, the layout editors at SkyMall must come from some special program for those recently released from prison.
Their thought process must have been, "well, left justified text flows better visually, so I'll just flip the image horizontally and no one will know the difference."
Map 5.3. Threshold 4 (maximum temperature flips to > 30°C). Map 5.4. Threshold 5 (maximum temperature in the growing season flips to > 30°C). Map credit: Polly Ericksen et al. 'Mapping hotspots of climate change and food insecurity in the global tropics', CCAFS, 2011 (photo credit: ILRI).
Old map effect created in QGIS 2.0 in the style of a United States Department of the Interior map ca. 1910 (direct predecessors of the United States Geological Survey).
John Nelson's most excellent map of Sparkleberry Swamp. The map is of unknown provenence, and has been passed around for years. It shows the "bones" of the swamp.
This is a more complete map of the Isle of Emeralds of the nation Allaria in Legends of Brickdom.
Credit to the map goes to my good friend |T|itus.
From Appendix 6: A Report to the San Francisco-State Joint Freeway Study on the Urban Design Aspects Associated with the Panhandle and Golden Gate Freeways, Mario J. Ciampi and Associates, John Carl Warnecke and Associates, February, 1966.
The Key Map summarises the overall layout of the city, showing the sequence and location of the zone maps.
主地图将整个城市的规划清晰地呈现眼前，并展示区域地图的次序及位置。
Beijing City notebook
北京地图
北京市笔记本
The article in English: kobucha.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/moleskine-beijing-city-n...
中文的文章： www.moleskiner.cn/nikolay-beijing-city-notebook-preview
Sunset in Pirin. Russian topo map (copy of bulgarian one and translated), draped on top of shaded relief made in blender 3d with the light just above the horizon. Some colored highlights and shadows inspired by Imhof and Tom Patterson.
Saihanba is a vast forest area at the border between Hebei Province and Inner Mongolia in Northern China. Highly recommended for hiking and cycling and for getting away from it all, but quite remote and difficult to reach (you'll need time). I stayed there in summer 2011 and explored the area on my road bike.
There is only one permanent settlement and this consists mainly of shops, restaurants and hotels for the few tourists who come here. This part of the world is sparsely populated by humans. It's easy to travel for 50 km without seeing a village. Some settlements just have numbers instead of names.
The best map of Saihanba that I could find was this big signboard at the only intersection. Print it out if you ever go to visit.
I entered from the remotest part, through the West Gate (西門). The road there is unpaved and just about manageable on a road bike (picture here).
The West Gate as well as the Noth Gate (北門) lead to Inner Mongolia. I was not allowed to pass though the North Gate, probably because horses are bred for the People's Liberation Army on the Mongolian side and military people don't like to have tourists around. I don't know if Chinese citizens are allowed to enter.
The East Gate (東門) is a beautiful mountain pass in deep forest (picture here). The road beyond leads to other interesting landscapes, mainly grassland. From there you can continue further east or north to a secret crossing into Inner Mongolia without grumpy guards holding you back.
Then there is the Main Gate (正門) in the south-east. This is where most people come through. I didn't go there and only rode half way down in that direction. The road is pavé and you need to be tough if you want to do that on road bike tyres. Next time, maybe.
After 2 days I left Saihanba through the South Gate (南門) to Yudaokou and, ultumately, back to civilisation.