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Few things more useful in the world of general knowledge than an accurate representation of the world: a globe. Of course, every map is out of date shortly after it’s printed, but the physical form of a globe certainly helps reinforce the reality, even if the labels and colors and lines move over time. I [...]

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Skeletons of the Zahara re-tells the story of an early 19th century shipwreck on the northeast coast of Africa. The American merchant ship Commerce runs aground, and the surviving crew ends up as slaves for various tribal groups on the west edge of the Saharan desert. No fun. Enduring starvation and thirst which evoked (in [...]

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Great map of the media capital, New York City from the Publicity Club of New York. Interesting to see ZD Media make the cut, especially since CNET Networks has its New York office in the same building. I haven’t seen anything comparable for San Francisco. I wouldn’t pretend that media has that much impact on [...]

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Northern California isn’t yet a separate nation-state, or economic superpower… although California as a whole is. But with all the different versions of a imagined geographies appearing around the web, you have to wonder if NoCal, as envisioned by William Gibson in Neuromancer (among other novels), will ever find a new place in the country [...]

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Via The Map Room, a link for old maps from the University of New Hampshire library. My favorite? Northeast corner of the St. Regis quadrangle (warning: 1.8MB image)

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Looks like a doozy of a map collection, especially since it needs specialized viewers… GIS is a whole technology subset I know very little about, but the end product is fascinating. The ever-increasing detail in which we think we can represent something is fractal; the deeper you dive, the more you realize you can never [...]

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I’m the map, I’m the map OK, terrible Dora the Explorer reference there, but… well, I have a three year old boy. Anyway, the map in question is the ACME Mapper. I grew up here. I now live here. You do the math.

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Ever had problems figuring out what level of ‘zoom’ you need at one of the online mapping sites? Victor Lombari did, and proposed a solution. I find it useful. I only wish someone at Yahoo Maps or Mapquest would emulate it, or improve upon it. Original link via Widgetopia.

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Aerial pictures from World War II, coming soon [Via Slashdot] Guardian (UK) story on imminent posting of World War II aerial photos online. From the article: “The entire archive of more than five million aerial reconnaissance photographs, shot by the RAF over Western Europe during the conflict, is going online from Monday.” That’s history: http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/ [...]

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Area code map Not as interactive as the zip-code map I posted two nights ago, but here is a useful area code map, from the comprehensive site LincMad, run by a telecommunications consultant here in San Francisco. Nice to be an expert in something. Seriously, I’m impressed (if mildly frightened) by the way this person’s [...]

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