People who use maps usually aren’t the people who commissioned them. This is why you get such crap maps from rental car companies. “And here is your map.” “Er… it doesn’t unfold.” “No, it’s just one sheet… much easier.” “But...
Topics: Cartography, Communication

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Karoline Hausted, a good friend of mine – my partner’s daughter, in fact -- just released her second CD, and her first solo CD. You can find it on iTunes. And you should.. you are going to love it. Take...
Topics: Music

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Cartographic downer. Here’s an interactive map of job gains and losses in the US… Run it and watch the New Orleans job loss bloom just after Katrina….chilling stuff until you see the same blooms for every major city this past...
Topics: Cartography, Economics

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Patrick Ottenhoff uses 73 maps to paint the history of the 2008 US campaigns. Wonderful political history & use of cartography. del.icio.us Tags: cartography,patrick_ottenhoff,maps,2008_election,political_maps,electoral_map
Topics: Cartography, Politics

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When Lee Hopkins and I decided to “road trip” from Seattle to San Francisco this year, we turned to social media – Twitter, Facebook, Tripadvisor – to help us plan the trip (which we are still planning). Since neither of...
Topics: Social Media, Travel

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