For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps.

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

"As Juerg Gilgen, a current cartographer at Swisstopo, told me “as a matter of fact, the proof-reader is also just a human being prone to failure. And cartographers are also just human beings trying to fool around.”"

Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

#MapMaking #maps #cartography #switzerland #Swisstopo #topography #hidden #illustration #eyeondesign

For the Swiss #mountains and #cartography fans https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

It also contains a link to this highlight from Swisstopo - a timeline displaying 175 years of the country’s cartographic history, advancing in increments of 5-10 years. Over the course of two minutes, Switzerland is drawn and redrawn with increasing precision. Fantastic.

https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en&center=2660000.59,1189999.84&z=1&topic=swisstopo&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen@year=1871&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&catalogNodes=swisstopo&timeSlider=1871

**How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders**

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-the-first-bible-to-include-a-map-helped-spread-the-idea-of-countries-with-borders-270901.

#History #Medieval #Bible #Maps #Cartography

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps.

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

"As Juerg Gilgen, a current cartographer at Swisstopo, told me “as a matter of fact, the proof-reader is also just a human being prone to failure. And cartographers are also just human beings trying to fool around.”"

Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

#MapMaking #maps #cartography #switzerland #Swisstopo #topography #hidden #illustration #eyeondesign

For the Swiss #mountains and #cartography fans https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

It also contains a link to this highlight from Swisstopo - a timeline displaying 175 years of the country’s cartographic history, advancing in increments of 5-10 years. Over the course of two minutes, Switzerland is drawn and redrawn with increasing precision. Fantastic.

https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en&center=2660000.59,1189999.84&z=1&topic=swisstopo&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen@year=1871&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&catalogNodes=swisstopo&timeSlider=1871

forbidden cartography

Circa 200 years after the Three MATA Brothers left their bunker to reassert MATACORP dominance over what remained of the destroyed planet, a hobbyist cartographer, Mavic Pengellan, born to an affluent penguin family in one of the Penguin Protectorates, would create his depiction of the world (with a fair amount of creative liberties).

His work was immediately suppressed in favor of the official MATACORP map of the world.

Pengellan's map however remains as the closest approximation of the world, used by wandering techno-mages.

#unix_surrealism #analognowhere #cartography #technomage

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

#HackerNews #Cartography #CovertIllustrations #Switzerland #Maps #Design #Secrets

OpenTopoMap (https://opentopomap.org) will shut down soon:
https://opentopomap.org/about#survival

#OpenTopoMap #OpenStreetMap #OSM #maps #cartography

What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.

#Geography #Cartography #Climate

**How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders**

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-the-first-bible-to-include-a-map-helped-spread-the-idea-of-countries-with-borders-270901.

#History #Medieval #Bible #Maps #Cartography

What does summer feel like where you live? Hot or cool? Rainy or dry? For the #30daymapchallenge Day 25 prompt "Hexagons", I mapped summer climates across North America. I averaged the 1991-2020 climate normals for mean summer temperature and total summer precipitation within 50,000 square kilometer hexagons using data from ClimateNA.

#Geography #Cartography #Climate

forbidden cartography

Circa 200 years after the Three MATA Brothers left their bunker to reassert MATACORP dominance over what remained of the destroyed planet, a hobbyist cartographer, Mavic Pengellan, born to an affluent penguin family in one of the Penguin Protectorates, would create his depiction of the world (with a fair amount of creative liberties).

His work was immediately suppressed in favor of the official MATACORP map of the world.

Pengellan's map however remains as the closest approximation of the world, used by wandering techno-mages.

#unix_surrealism #analognowhere #cartography #technomage

If, like me, you enjoy looking at maps but are not well up in cartography, you will find the Royal Geographical Society's "Theatre of the World" an enjoyable and instructive guide to the history of the printed atlas.

#Geography #Atlas #Maps #Cartography #Books #RoyalGeographicalSociety #History

https://www.rgs.org/our-collections/stories-from-our-collections/online-exhibitions/theatre-of-the-world

🌐 Les câbles sous-marins, enjeu majeur de la mondialisation de l'information
https://cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2018/04/les-cables-sous-marins-enjeu-majeur-de.html
#monde #globe #Terre #communication #câbles #cartes #cartographie #cartography #maps #France #UK #USA #mondialisation #Amériques #Asie #Afrique #Europe #histoire #géographie #géopolitique #information

If, like me, you enjoy looking at maps but are not well up in cartography, you will find the Royal Geographical Society's "Theatre of the World" an enjoyable and instructive guide to the history of the printed atlas.

#Geography #Atlas #Maps #Cartography #Books #RoyalGeographicalSociety #History

https://www.rgs.org/our-collections/stories-from-our-collections/online-exhibitions/theatre-of-the-world

🌊 hashtag#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water
Estaba intentando recrear el estilo de relieve de Eduard Imhof con software libre cuando, por accidente, subí un poco el nivel del mar. Me gustó cómo eso destacó el contraste entre la hidrografía y el relieve.
Usé GIMP y QGIS, tomando como referencia los trabajos de @john_m_nelson y Tom Patterson. #GIMP #QGIS #Cartography

🌊 hashtag#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water
Estaba intentando recrear el estilo de relieve de Eduard Imhof con software libre cuando, por accidente, subí un poco el nivel del mar. Me gustó cómo eso destacó el contraste entre la hidrografía y el relieve.
Usé GIMP y QGIS, tomando como referencia los trabajos de @john_m_nelson y Tom Patterson. #GIMP #QGIS #Cartography

An official atlas of North Korea

https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea

#HackerNews #NorthKorea #Atlas #Cartography #Geography #News #Exploration

A Revised Three-dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies, by Antonio Ciccolella

☑️ research note of the AAS https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ae1efc
☑️ ultra-high resolution version https://flic.kr/p/2rD6yGU

#Cosmology #LocalGroup #galaxies #MilkyWay #Andromeda #Astronomy #Astrodon #visualization #science #Cosmography #map #cartography