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Peta Soerabaja (map of Surabaya) from Guide to the Dutch East Indies by Dr. J.F. van Bemmelen and G.B. Hoover, Luzac & Co, London 1897 (via Wikipedia)

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Pieced-together cadastral map centred on San Peng Flat, Kuala Lumpur (before DBKL went and digitized everything)

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fsebmat:

Map of the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris

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holillustrates:

Here is the latest map I have been working on, it is of the Regent’s Canal that runs across north London. It is completely hand drawn in Rotring Pen.

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vechernyaya:

from the Odd Sympathy series by Jeremy Liebman

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landscapearchitecture:

(via URBAN CARPET on the Behance Network)

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perranedie:

Diorama Maps by Sohei Nishino, made up of thousands of photographs of the city put together by memory.
Photo The Guardian

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MapAttack Turns The City Into A Real-Life Pac-Man Board

MapAttack is a (free) real-time location-based smartphone game that turns the city into one big Pac-Man-like gameboard.

Perhaps I may be swayed in favour of smartphones by things like this. Perhaps….

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Map Tunnelling Tool

Using this tool, it seems the only place in the world where you can pray in any direction but still be oriented towards the Ka’aba is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

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Kartograph, a lightweight framework for building interactive map applications

Kartograph is a new framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps or any other mapping service. It was created with the needs of designers and data journalists in mind.

Excited to try it out. And I find the term data journalists intriguing (as opposed to factual or fictional journalists perhaps?)

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Cartography is fast becoming the most practical comparative basis for integrating and reducing the vast reaches of modern information. If the geographer seeks to define a domain in terms of space in order to discover regions, and if the historian seeks to define a domain in terms of space and time in order to discover civilizations, the cartographer can be said to use space in order to inform us about all conceivable domains.

— Jacques Bertin, The Semiology of Graphics (via lyzidiamond)

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leningradcosmonaut:

Map of Southeast Asia by Thomaso Porcacchi, circa 1576

Isole Molucche.

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