Beautiful data mapping of events that happen in a split second.
http://signal-noise.co.uk/thinking/over-in-less-than-a-second
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FollowFractals
Infinitely continuous patterns generated by mathematical equations. These can be rendered by a computer to show forms that always existed in nature but had previously always been invisible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
Korean DMZ: Uncovering the Agency of Unknown Armistice Maps
“How we understand territories and nation-states—more importantly how we imagine them—depend on how we map them.”
http://www.thesitemagazine.com/read/the-first-iteration
![[Image 4: Dongsei Kim assisted by Jack Isles. Detailed crop of “Uncovering the Agency of Unknown Armistice Maps: The First Iteration” 2015. Print on canvas, 4756 x 841 mm. Image credit © Dongsei Kim, 2015]](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5671ee0a0ab3774b3457b1ad/t/573e763660b5e9e0a0a3e31b/1463711311004/?format=1500w)
The Allure of the Map: Popularity of Maps and Charts in the Digital Age
“Literary cartography fascinates and guides the way that actual cartography does; that’s why we keep and carry stories in the same places we carry and keep maps: on our walls, in our pockets, and on our phones.”
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-allure-of-the-map
Urban Intersections
We’ve looked at bias in mapping, how about mapping bias? And think about the power of maps to affect change.
Politics & Power: The Map as a Tool
A map of the British and French dominions in North America, with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations.
Commonly Referred to as The Mitchell Map of North America, it is not navigational but political showing both the passage of time and shifts of power. More than most maps, the bias and intention of both the author and his patron are explicit.
- Completed in 1755
- Depicting North America but created in London
- Printed Engraving
- Drawn by John Mitchell
- Engraved by Thomas Kitchin
- Published by Andrew Millar
- For the Earl of Halifax to promote his position in Parliament: no compromise with the French, building up to the Seven-Years’ War/French and Indian War
- 6′-5″ x 4′-6″ tiled on 8 sheets
- 1:2,000,000
- Mercator Projection
Issues of political importance as evidenced by the map:
- Place names transitioning from Native to English
- Native names beyond the European sphere of influence clearly marked as irrelevant
- British military victories over the Spanish and Natives marked
- Iroquois territory coloured red as British although they were technically only allies
- Acadia transitioning to Nova Scotia as a result of war on the European continent 40 years earlier
- Perceived territorial disputed with the French are marked (Halifax needs a justification for war)
- Inaccuracies extend the Mississippi river all the way to the 50th parallel meaning the Canada/US border was not properly established in the area until 1843
Although technically inaccurate, a copy of this map was used to establish the borders of the United States at the Treaty of Paris in 1783. It has been used as recently as 1980 to settle a fisheries dispute off the coasts of Nova Scotia and Maine.
Full resolution map can be found here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.ar004000/
If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/14/upshot/if-americans-can-find-north-korea-on-a-map-theyre-more-likely-to-prefer-diplomacy.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/14/upshot/if-americans-can-find-north-korea-on-a-map-theyre-more-likely-to-prefer-diplomacy.html?_r=0