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• The First Thematic Maps

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 547
  Zachary Forest Johnson provides “a quick outline of the first maps created with six common cartographic symbologies. … The six symbologies are the classic thematic cartography representation methods: choropleth, proportional symbol, dot density, flow, isarithmic, and cartogram.” Only one of them predates the ...
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• Buttercream Cupcake Truck Going Part-Time for Winter

  
  Grub Street Philadelphia — Authority: 128
  After launching with a twitter-hyped bang over the summer, the Buttercream Truck has become a victim of its own success and is slashing its cupcake trucking schedule to just three stops a week. Owner Kate Carrara writes on the Buttercream site that both she and the truck - which recently suffered a fuel-related ...
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• Maps and Travel : How Would You Map Your Travels?

  
  Matador Abroad — Authority: 465
  How would you map your travels? Perhaps, being a traveler (or someone at least vaguely interested in travel), you are as obsessed with maps as I am. I find old maps nostalgic and achingly beautiful. They seem to bring up a swirl of memories, subterranean memories about exploration, fear, fascination, curiosity. ...
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• Argleton, L39 UK - A Google Ghost Town?

  
  United Maps — Authority: 116
  Argleton is a place that doesnt exist - except on Google Maps. The story is developing since about a week, brought up by The Telegraph : Google and the company that supplies its mappingdata are unable to explain the presence of the phantom town and areinvestigating . Tantalisingly, “Argle” echoes the ...
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• Fantasy political map of the Netherlands

  
  24 oranges — Authority: 497
  This map shows the fake island kingdom the Netherlands could be if its geography fully followed its politics. In the real world, top left dogs Nijmegen and Groningen are separated by 200 kilometres, as are right wing islands Kessel and Urk. Here’s a quick legend: links = left, rechts = right, rood = red, rijk = ...
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• Book Review: Rethinking Maps

  
  Vector One — Authority: 131
  I read the book Rethinking Maps by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins while flying over the Atlantic Ocean last week. The review is online here. The authors hit the nail on the head with their varied list of contributors to the book, capturing the thoughts of many people at the forefront of cartography [...]
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• Marzone — Australian Marine Zone Boundary Map Software

  
  Vector One — Authority: 131
  The Melbourne School of Engineering, Department of Geomatics has developed Marzone, a software for determining marine boundaries through user-defined specifications.From the downloadable user guide — “MarZone is a stand-alone maritime zone boundary delineation software package consisting of two integrated parts. ...
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• World Record Price For 1477 Printing of Ptolemy’s Map of the World

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 500
  A copy of the extremely scarce and considered unobtainable 1477 Bologna printing of Ptolemy ’s world map fetched a record price of 210,000 Euros ($312,000) plus premium at Reiss & Sohn auctions in Konigstein, Germany last week. The map shows the whole hitherto known part of the world and is the first ...
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• Cloud of Atlases.Try to figure out what data each map...

  
  SHODAN LIVES — Authority: 131
  Cloud of Atlases . Try to figure out what data each map displays. I got 3 out of 22 correct (they’re not easy).
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• Required reading: mapping the favela

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  Via Chairman Bruce , here’s some required reading for anyone writing near-future fiction that involves a favela as a setting … and given the way the world is becoming urbanised, a near-future story that doesn’t feature a favela can probably be considered to have something missing from it! It’s an article ...
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• Density Map of Geo Blogs

  
  Vector One — Authority: 131
  World Map Geo Blog has published a density map of geoblogs. The map shows those areas with high levels of ‘production bloggers’ and low levels of non-production bloggers, or irregular bloggers. It appears to me that the level of ‘production’ is higher in Europe.From the site — “This is the first density ...
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• Interesting… New book explores The Map as Art

  
  AnyGeo - A GISuser Blog about GIS and Location Technologies — Authority: 128
  I really dig abstract representations and interpretations that take advantage of maps, Geo technology and imagery - here’s an interesting new book that touches on this subject. From the National Post … Harmon’s latest book, The Map as Art, explores how the ancient practice of cartography…
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• Cartography 2.0

  
  GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Authority: 493
  Cartography 2.0 is a new site with the purpose of providing up-to-date information about web mapping technologies.  The site authors seeks to provide an extensive knowledge base that will help answer the question, “What’s the important stuff I need to know about making great on-demand/interactive maps?” The ...
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• The map is not the territory, redux – Argleton, the village that doesn’t exist

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 581
  As useful as it is to have easy access to digital maps of the world, they throw up some odd anomalies from time to time… like this one from Lancashire, here in the UK. Google’s maps of the area show a small village called Argleton, not far from Ormskirk. The thing is, there’s no such village . The jury is ...
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• Historical Marker Database

  
  Free Geography Tools — Authority: 415
  The Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) is a voluntary effort to document and catalog historical markers, mainly from the US and Canada (a few markers from foreign countries are also listed). Markers are listed by category and state; you can also search by multiple parameters (keywords, postal code, county, etc.). ...
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• the first thematic maps

  
  indiemaps.com/blog — Authority: 395
  Below’s a quick outline of the first maps created with six common cartographic symbologies. All of the below is out there, in books, articles, and blog posts. Particularly helpful are H. Gray Funkhouser’s Historical Development of the Graphical Representation of Statistical Data (1937), Arthur Robinson’s ...
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• National Geographic’s New Atlas of the Civil War

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 110
  Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: National Geographic (October 20, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1426203470 ISBN-13: 978-1426203473 Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 10.7 x 1.1 inches The good folks at National Geographic sent me a review copy of their new Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive ...
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• The mysterious data mines of Argleton-on-Google

  
  Systme D — Authority: 98
  There’s been a bunch of online chatter today about Argleton, the mystery town on Google Maps that has never really existed. “Maybe it’s a trap street ,” people have speculated. Google itself appears to be pinning the blame on Tele Atlas, telling the Telegraph: “People can report an issue to the data ...
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• Mystery of Argleton, the ‘Google’ Town That Only Exists Online

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  Rebeccal Lefort reports in the Telegraph : Argleton, a ‘phantom town’ in Lancashire [England] that appears on Google Maps and online directories but doesn’t actually exist, has puzzled internet experts. The town appears on Google Maps in the middle of fields close to the M58 motorway, just south of Ormskirk. ...
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• Cincinnati Footprint Print by VisuaLingual

  
  Visualingual — Authority: 424
  Hot off the presses is our largest serigraph yet –20×28 inches, and three colors. The print shows the Ohio River, downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Mt. Auburn, Clifton, the University of Cincinnati, and parts of Queensgate, the West End, and Mt. Adams. You can recognize the major buildings and landmarks by their ...
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