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La herramienta «Ancient Earth» se basa en registros de hace 1.100 millones de años para crear imágenes interactivas de todo el planeta
Plot, setting, character… we learn to think of these as discrete elements in literary writing, comparable to the strategy, board, and pieces of a chess game. But what if this scheme doesn’t quite work? What about when the setting is a character? There are many literary works named and well-known for the unforgettable places they introduce: Walden, Wuthering Heights, Howards End…. There are invented domains that seem more real to readers than reality: Faulkner’s Yoknapatowpha, Thomas Hardy’s Wessex… There are works that describe impossible places so vividly we believe in their existence against all reason: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, China Miéville’s The City and the City, Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"….
“The United States of Apathy” showcases the dramatic effect of low voter turnout in U.S. elections.
How maps created for fire insurers show the evolution of cities.
Un mapa interactivo nos muestra el street art de Madrid
“Cartography was not born full-fledged as a science or even an art,” wrote map historian Lloyd Brown in 1949. “It evolved slowly and painfully from obscure origins.” Many ancient maps made no attempt to reproduce actual geography but served as abstract visual representations of political or theological concepts. Written geography has an ancient pedigree, usually traced back to the Greeks and Phoenicians and the Roman historian Strabo. But the making of visual approximations of the world seemed of little interest until later in world history. As “mediators between an inner mental world and an outer physical world”—in the words of historian J.B. Harley—the maps of the ancients tended to favor the former. This is, at least, a very general outline of the early history of maps.
A new online mapping tool allows you to track long-term trends in violence across dozens of U.S. cities.
Los libros nos trasladan a destinos nuevos o conocidos, nos enseñan lugares imaginarios y nos muestran cómo es la vida en parajes en los que nunca hemos estado. Todas las historias se desarrollan en algún lugar que, a veces, nos sirve para evadirnos y otras para desear visitarlos. ¿Quién no ha querido seguir la línea rosa de la iglesia de Saint Sulpice en París como hizo Robert Langdon en el Código Da Vinci o descubrir el andén 9 y ¾ de Harry Potter en King’s Cross?
A transplant to Atlanta from Pakistan (via London) has mapped the story of Atlanta as told through the songs of some of the city’s most famous rappers.
The Odyssey, one of Homer's two great epics, narrates Odysseus' long, strange trip home after the Trojan war. During their ten-year journey, Odysseus and his men had to overcome divine and natural forces, from battering storms and winds to difficult encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the cannibalistic Laestrygones, the witch-goddess Circe and the rest. And they took a most circuitous route, bouncing all over the Mediterranean, moving first down to Crete and Tunisia. Next over to Sicily, then off toward Spain, and back to Greece again.
...he went away, and passing through what was called the house of Tiberius, went down into the forum, to where a gilded column stood, at which all the roads that intersect Italy terminate."
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape.
Too often, men. And money. But a team of OpenStreetMap users is working to draw new cartographic lines, making maps that more accurately—and equitably—reflect our space.
A biweekly tour of the ever-expanding cartographic landscape.
Mega-collector David Rumsey explains how maps are an "archive of information."
Brits and Indonesians may not be happy with the results.
Did you know the world map you use probably isn't accurate? There's a growing shift away from the Eurocentric Mercator projection, which greatly distorts the sizes of countries.
With his "Google Maps Hack," artist Simon Weckert draws attention to the systems we take for granted—and how we let them shape us.
