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Pipelines Map - Europe and Russia La Cartoteca blog references a UNEP GRID map showing the pipeline situation in eastern Europe and southern Russia. Most people are probably not aware of the locations of pipelines.

Last week I went to the Atlas District of Washington, DC to see my housemate’s band perform at the Rock & Roll Hotel. When I went outside to look for some food I stumbled up the A N M Market & Deli located at 1363 H Street NE, Washington, DC.

Etsy seller kpetuck is a Brooklyn-based architect who also creates these sort of sweet, sort of bizarre collages out of vintage photographs, bits of map, and red stitching. What, no Cincinnati? From the top: Providence 2, Detroit, Wichita, and Indianapolis.

Nigeria has handed over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, bringing an end to a long-standing dispute over the territory. Reprinted from the BBC. Thursday, 14 August 2008.) Thanks Patterson! The handover ceremony was moved from the peninsula’s main town to Calabar in Nigeria amid security concerns.

Google Preparing To Release Map Data For GeorgiaSeeded on Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:15 PM EDT (googleblog.blogspot.com) The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world.technology, georgia, google, google-maps, cartography, gis,

Lisa and I sat down last night and watched the excellent first epsiode of a new BBC series Britain for Above, which uses beautiful aerial photography to illustrate what can best be described as the “Geography of Britain”.

Profiling Dave Imus, Cartographer Sunday August 10th 2008 Filed Under Cartography | Leave a Comment The Eugene Register-Guard profiles an Oregonian cartographer by the name of Dave Imus. Imus has produced maps of Oregon and local jurisdictions in Oregon and won a “Best of Show” award from the American Congress on Surveying & Mapping.

When we last heard about cartographer David Imus, he was getting rave reviews for his map of Alaska. Now the revised edition of his map of Oregon is getting similarly favourable reviews, at least if this article in today’s Eugene Register-Guard is any indication.

North American Maps on UK Lamps I  was at a place called Clovally in the UK not long ago and sat in the lobby of a hotel to read a newspaper. It was getting dark and I reached over to turn on the light. When I did, I noticed the mapshade was a map of North America. Upon closer inspection it [...]

Today I was fortunate to attend the fourth 10 Minute lectures, held in DUMBO at the Melville House Bookstore. This lecture series previously featured Lewis Lapham, Forrest Hylton, and Rene Ortiz, and like Pecha Kucha the brevity makes for a pleasantly dense presentation.