Speaking of #cat islands... this other #island is a most appealing shaped island. I think it looks like a fat cat. I'm surprised no one else has pointed out this island exists (well... no one else in the modern Internet). #gis#mapping 28.83205, 129.00025
Made a little map today. Haven't done one for a while and it was a lot of fun. Made almost entirely in #Inkscape though I did take it into #Gimp at the end to add a texture layer.
There's no story behind the map, it was just for the fun of it. Drawing is not my forte, ahem, but I love making maps in Inkscape where I can tweak to my heart's content.
Just realised that I forgot to add a compass. And a scale. Oh well, bit late now. 🤷♀️
Mini book review:
Johnson’s The Ghost Map, 2006.
A terse and lively account of the cholera epidemic, London at the time, and John Snow’s work together with Henry Whitehead and others. The grander arc on city development is a bit more tenuous and feels like overplaying Snow’s legacy.
Apparently gets the historical details right (unlike e.g. Tufte). Good pointers to further reading. Minus for not including a good reproduction of the maps.
Yesterday, while feeling somewhat braindead, I started a public Zotero library of digitised historic map collections.
It's mostly Australian at the moment, and mostly the stuff I am always sending my family history students to, plus a few other places I use regularly for my own research, but I have grand intentions of adding to it over time – I keep a 'resources' folder in my own Zotero after all.
Feel free to shout your thoughts and additions at me here!
Conceived in the 1980's and realized in 1991, here a map for "The Umbrellas" project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
An unique site specific work that included site specific locations for large umbrellas that dotted the countryside. Coordinated to take place in Japan and the U.S. (California). (Sadly the CA exhibit had a tragic accident)
Did you see this exhibit? Anyone you know that might have experienced it?
I am increasingly frustrated by Google Maps - the final straw is the clutter from hire scooter points & muddling the walking directions with scooter hire.
I've been pleased with Petal Maps (by Huawei) excellent walking & public transport options without the guff.
Not perfect by any means, but good enough for me.
Funny the data issues you can have on Google Maps. It's insistent there's no transfer between the pink and yellow lines on the Lyon Metro, when of course there is. You need to have your wits about you and reject the Google Maps advice sometimes.
@jeremy Funny, our colleague Jacky Volpès blew my mind yesterday with an expression-based :qgis: atlas layout, Jedi level ! It iterates over communes, and for each, shows up to 6 different mini-maps zoomed on specific areas. A blog article on this planned to land on @oslandia soon hopefully.
Also, thank you to Biotope and Agence de l'Eau Adour Garonne for funding the initial Atlas plugin years ago and its port to core, which later became one of the most powerful :qgis: feature. #OpenSource#Maps
Google Maps Immersive View Looks Like a Simulation Game
Google showed off a new mode for Google Maps that will display the route on top of the existing 3D map models. You’ll be able to scroll through directions, with lines and arrows visible above the map. Google even showed off weather effects in the render, like ...continues
I read an article years ago on how the maps we use shape the way we see the world, the choices we make and our relationship with our environment. I believe this is entirely true.
When I'm out #walking I like to use a mix of Google satellite view and a good old OS and this because as great as OS is, it doesn't paint the entire picture. Likewise Google is flawed. But together I get a good overview.
I wish there was a way to tell the map apps to never present routing options through certain roads under any circumstances unless explicitly authorized.
When you're driving you don't have much of an opportunity to evaluate your routing options beyond what's offered by the map. When you're in no position to pull over, this becomes a nightmare.
If I can tell my Ecovacs/Roomba to not enter the bathroom or go over a specific spot in the house, I should be able to tell Maps to never enter or offer routing through certain roads or even road types.
Also, these companies map cities using LIDAR, the tech should be able to tell the width of roads they go through. That info should be fed into the system so we can tell the apps the width of our vehicle and to avoid roads of certain widths or tell us if a road has varying widths.