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The British Cartographic Society: September 2014
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The British Cartographic Society. A blog about cartography and maps from some members of The BCS. Http:/ www.cartography.org.uk. Http:/ www.cartography.org.uk/symposium. Wednesday, 3 September 2014. BCS President's Bulletin August 2014. Cartography on the web. Remember what I said about the 'silly season' last month? Http:/ cartonerd.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-reason-for-cartography.html. You know when you write something down as a note to yourself and you mean to go back to it later? Reasons as to why Geo...
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Cartography and Geographic Information Society
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US National Committee for the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The Cartography and Geographic Information Society is the U.S. adhering body to the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the ICA is a standing committee of CaGIS that is the liaison between ICA and CaGIS. as well as the larger the U.S. cartographic community. The Chair (2016-2020) of U.S. National Committee is Dr. Aileen Buckley,. Esri, 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92373-8100.
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Map of the Week: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Is a remarkably comprehensive collection, compiled from the collections of Björn Larsson. I have wasted many hours looking through their collection at vintage airline maps for example, Air Zaire, 1978. The maps range in style from this highly schematic, barely legible 1970 Air Canada. To this geographically detailed schedule from Regie Air Afrique. With artistic flourishes,. To this artistic take from Aeroposta Argentina. Click the image for a larger view. With the familiar s...
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Cartonerd: March 2014
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Friday, 21 March 2014. Cart-oh-nono #2: If you hear someone say 'chloropleth'. Thursday, 20 March 2014. Cart-oh-nono #1: blending choropleths and basemaps. The first post in an occasional series pointing out why what you think is a good idea for your map might not be so cool after all. Here's another version, this time mashed up onto a topographic basemap. But it gets worse.I've lately seen this type of choropleth.the blended choropleth. Look at the following version without the water. It's not now a cho...
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Cartonerd: Needless lines in the sand
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Saturday, 28 March 2015. Needless lines in the sand. I just read a blog post from Andrew Hill, a guy whose work I admire greatly, entitled In defense of burger cartography. Go have a read if you've not already done so then come back.I've got a few things to say. Time to fall in love with maps again". You'll likely find most of us never fell out of love with them. Is this perhaps just a rallying cry to further support the belief that all this new stuff is unequivocally super awesome? If we always threw aw...
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Cartonerd: December 2014
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Monday, 15 December 2014. Favourite maps from 2014. I'll get to my favourite maps from 2014 in a moment but first a few thoughts. Why do we still hide good quality cartographic research in academic journals? In a personal sense I made a frivolous map. In Flight by Kiln. Click image for web map). A black and white, printed map. There's still space in a list like this for a terrific perspective drawing of Tokyo that when viewed close-up shows incredible detail. No fancy web controls here.just b...A simple ...
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Meetings | Commission on Neocartography
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Website of the ICA Commission on Neocartography 2011 2015. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. June 16, 2015. There is a session with a strong neocartography. Slant in the SoC/BCS conference ‘Mapping together’ in York this September. Tuesday 10 Sept – Talks Session 3: New Cartography. 8211; Richard Phillips and Will Phillips, OSM Volunteers. Neocartography, (new) aesthetics. 8211; Steve Chilton, Middlesex University and Alex Kent Canterbury, Christchurch University. March 17, 2015. Sessio...
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Steve8 | Commission on Neocartography
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Website of the ICA Commission on Neocartography 2011 2015. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. June 16, 2015. There is a session with a strong neocartography. Slant in the SoC/BCS conference ‘Mapping together’ in York this September. Tuesday 10 Sept – Talks Session 3: New Cartography. 8211; Richard Phillips and Will Phillips, OSM Volunteers. Neocartography, (new) aesthetics. 8211; Steve Chilton, Middlesex University and Alex Kent Canterbury, Christchurch University. March 17, 2015. Sessio...
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