Mapping invisible boundaries
A ‘Whom Do You Hang With?’ Map Of America, NPR collects maps of U.S. regions drawn by tracking where dollars are spent and who we call on our cell phones. Fascinating.
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2013-04-27
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2013-03-17
DRIFT
Filmed on the flight from San Francisco → Salt Lake City → Philadelphia.
Like a slow roll over a raised relief map or a model train set. Very nice. /via john lampard.
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2013-03-03
The map depicts routes of 232 in-service and 12 planned undersea cables.
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2013-01-26
Comic Book Cartography
An excellent collection of maps and diagrams from comic books. Check it while you can since the fate of Spaces/Posterous is up in the air.
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2013-01-18
Scott's Hut
A virtual tour of Scott’s Hut on Google Maps. From Wikipedia:
Scott’s Hut is a building located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott.
You can even find a frozen penguin. /via vintage hiking depot
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2013-01-08
I once created this tiny, adorable Easter egg that was secretly planted on a map for travelers to Driggs, Idaho.
It’s still there. I wish all maps still had monsters.
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2013-01-07
Below the Boat
Starting with a bathymetric chart (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), the contours are laser-cut into sheets of Baltic birch and glued together to create a powerful visual depth. Select layers are hand-colored blue so it’s easy to discern land from water, major byways are etched into the land, the whole thing’s framed in a custom, solid-wood frame and protected seamlessly with a sheet of durable, ultra-transparent Plexiglas.
Beautiful maps and a nice e-commerce site (built on Shopify).
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2013-01-06
The Indiana Jones Movies, Retold as Maps
Andrew DeGraff is an artist who has a particular knack for reinterpreting popular movies as maps. Given that the Indiana Jones films are about pulp archaeology, they seem particularly well suited to having their stories retold via map.
I just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark with my son last night and than I ran across this coolness in the morning.
P.S. Also see DeGraff’s Goonies map.
P.S.S. I made my son cover his eyes when the Nazi’s faces melted. I’m thinking he will be surprised if he watches it without me next time.
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2013-01-03
Celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher’s obsessive hand-drawn typographic maps are now available as lovely gridded mini journals.
Source: explore-blog
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2012-11-25
by Ed Fairburn /via colossal
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2012-11-15
HERE
Nokia’s new mapping service (website and apps). Looks kinda cool for big cities (here is DC), but seems to be lacking for smaller locals (e.g. no street view in my city).
