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Posted inArt

Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future

Avatar photo by Louis Bury July 6, 2019December 10, 2020

Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.

Posted inArt

A Grassroots “Google Street View” Supports Community-Building Efforts in Detroit

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 1, 2018

A mobile mapping station being developed by a team in the Master’s Urban Planning department at Lawrence Technical University, wants to help residents of embattled neighborhoods.

Posted inArt

An Atlas Maps the End of the Earth

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 2, 2017August 3, 2021

The Atlas for the End of the World maps the end of Earth as a biodiverse resource for human exploitation.

Posted inArt

An AI Tool Predicts City Wealth Based on Satellite Imagery

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 1, 2017August 3, 2021

Penny is an experiment in what high and low income areas look like to an AI trained on satellite imagery and census data.

Posted inArt

Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 25, 2017August 3, 2021

The New York Public Library has thousands of historical photographs and illustrations of NYC that you can help geotag with a new tool called “Surveyor.”

Posted inBooks

An Atlas for the Mythical Places that Have Populated Our Maps

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 9, 2017August 23, 2021

The Phantom Atlas chronicles centuries of fictional locations that were included on maps of the world.

Posted inNews

CIA Declassifies Maps from 75 Years of Surveillance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 9, 2016September 9, 2021

To mark the 75th anniversary of its Cartography Center, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shares decades of declassified maps.

Posted inArt

Maps Made to Influence and Deceive

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 4, 2016September 9, 2022

Some maps are not designed to chart geography, but to express a particular belief.

Posted inArt

Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 13, 2016July 15, 2016

The building blocks of urban landscapes are often riddled with fossils, with Jurassic reptile bones and Cretaceous sea creatures sometimes emerging from the stone surfaces.

Posted inArt

An Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 21, 2016August 3, 2021

Richard Evans Schultes took peyote with the Kiowa in Oklahoma in the 1930s, was the first scientist invited to a hallucinogenic yagé ceremony in the Amazon’s Sibundoy Valley in the 1940s, and inadvertently helped launch the psychedelic era of the 1960s.

Posted inArt

Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 10, 2015December 24, 2015

Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.

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Why Cannibals Were on Every 16th-Century Map of the New World

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 13, 2015November 17, 2015

Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity.

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