Cartography





Mapping anime to attract tourists

Feb 8th, 2010 | By

The Japanese National Tourism Organization co-created a map of Hakone, Japan with Gainax, the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion a wildly popular 1990s anime which is currently undergoing a resurgence. The JNTO and Hakone area are taking advantage of this resurgence to encourage anime fans from around the globe to come for a visit. From [...]



British Geological Survey Maps

Dec 15th, 2009 | By

The British Geological Survey, the world’s oldest national geological survey, is offering GEOSCIENCE, a free service for sharing geospatial information including maps, 3D maps, and photographs. The GEOSCENIC is really cool because it is geological photos from their archives that can be used free of charge for non-commercial purposes. They have a make-a-map function for [...]



US Census Bureau beginning to hire for 2010 census workers

Dec 5th, 2008 | By

I just saw last night that the Census Bureau is gearing up the hiring process for workers here in West Virginia, and I am sure the process is also starting up in other states as well. There will be several waves of hiring, from office workers and support staff, to the actual census takers. Hiring [...]



ScapeToad – free cartogram generating software

Nov 12th, 2008 | By

The use of cartograms as representational tools for the US election results got a lot of attention last week, with links to a number of sites such as Mark Newman’s . Cartograms are powerful cartographic visualizations, but are not necessarily easy to produce. I remember having to run a very tempermental ArcView script to generate [...]



Because You’ve Always Wanted to Know….

Oct 29th, 2008 | By

This fun video shows what goes on down at the Globe Factory (I believe it is Replogle Globes) ….. Via Gizmodo and Chicago History Museum’s YouTube Channel



INFOMAR – Mapping Ireland’s Seabed

Jun 18th, 2008 | By

Just as countries are spending increasing amounts of money and resources to map their territories using high-resolution technologies such as LIDAR, some, like Ireland, are devoting significant effort to map their undersea territory (and potential resources) as well. Beginning in 2006, the INFOMAR (INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s MArine Resource) project has [...]



Largest Self-Portrait in the World!

May 26th, 2008 | By

Created with DHL shipping company and the help of GPS! It spans nearly every continent and shows a pretty elaborate path. While this might seem flippant, I think it shows an important intersection of technology and art. Anyone familiar with ancient maps can see the obvious art there, but I can’t say I’ve ever thought [...]



Festival of Maps in Chicago

Sep 30th, 2007 | By

There is a great website associated with the Festival of Maps that is taking place through February 2008. The site offers a chance to view sites via a map, search for specific content/events and browse by different map types. If you are going to Chicago in the near future definitely check out this great resource [...]



Will TomTom’s Map Share herald the end of professional mapping?

Jul 11th, 2007 | By

In an article yesterday, PC Pro’s (a UK-based tech news site) Darien Graham-Smith comments on the upcoming release of TomTom’s “MapShare” technology (here’s my previous post), and predicts that its impact will be much more far-reaching than the fairly quiet launch announcement. He argues that this will break consumer SatNav systems’ reliance on commercial map [...]



Where is Middle-Earth?

Jun 25th, 2007 | By

More fun from our friends over at Strange Maps. As the post says, Tolkien didn’t create Middle Earth from thin air, it’s based upon real geography. In this case, as sort of stylized version of Europe. Then you put in on the map, it sorta makes sense I guess. Although I would have thought he [...]