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Stephen Walter’s London Subterranea, another art map...

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:51:18 +0100

Stephen Walter’s London Subterranea, another art map featured in Claire Dobbin’s book (and one of her choices of the best maps in the London Transport Museum collection). It’s been posted to io9 and Londonist today, with the latter providing close-ups along with a a good description:

Walter has painstakingly charted the buried rivers, Tube lines, bunkers, sewers, government tunnels and other hypogeal secrets of London. He’s also included mysterious and underworld elements, such as unsolved murders, ley lines and pagan burial sites. Like his famed 2008 work The Island, to which this is a companion piece, London Subterranea is a mesmerising tagliatella, combining painstaking research with artistic whimsy.

As they note, it’ll be displayed at the London Transport Museum’s Mind the Maps Friday Late tomorrow.

Golden Gate hachures, by Michal Migurski. (more, via.)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:18:32 +0100

Golden Gate hachures, by Michal Migurski. (more, via.)

Endpages “Real Book of Stars” by Calsidyrose on...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:36:25 +0100

Endpages “Real Book of Stars” by Calsidyrose on Flickr.

the-rx (via): The Høje Målebordsblade, is mosaic 1 of several...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:15:00 +0100

the-rx (via):

The Høje Målebordsblade, is mosaic 1 of several hundred individual 1:20,000 sheets and was the first official civilian topographical map of Denmark. The survey, by the Generalstabens topografiske Afdeling, was done between 1842–1895, with the first lithographic sheets published in 1862. Here is the same mosaic, with everything (except Bornholm) in the right place and in proper geographical context.

The original site has a beautiful 4344✕4510 pixel version that I hope you visit.

(Edit: Thanks to Rocío for correcting the Danish.)

A Dymaxion air-ocean map, from the The Utopian...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:32:21 +0100

A Dymaxion air-ocean map, from the The Utopian Impulse exhibitio, as seen in the New York Times story, R. Buckminster Fuller’s Comeback at a San Francisco Museum.

Metrography, by Benedikt Groß & Bertrand Clerc: the...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:24:05 +0000

Metrography, by Benedikt Groß & Bertrand Clerc:

the geographical structure of transportation networks are often reshaped to provide users with more understandable transit maps. These distortions have a major influence on people’s perception of a city’s geography, to the point they get stored mentally and become the collective representation of the real world’s geography.

‘Metrography’ attempts to explore this phenomenon using the most famous of transit maps: the London Tube Map.

There’s a 150cm x 100cm lambda print, as well as a slippy-map interactive version, and videos of the deformation.

The Chromatic London Underground Map by fdansv on Flickr: The...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:12:06 +0000

The Chromatic London Underground Map by fdansv on Flickr:

The purpose of this map is chiefly aesthethic, as well as an attempt of providing an alternative visualization of our beloved network.

Buy your A2 numbered copy for £14.99 here or see the original post in my blog here.

bashford: Geologic Map of the North Side of the Moon by Desiree...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:36:05 +0000

bashford:

Geologic Map of the North Side of the Moon by Desiree E. Stuart-Alexander (1978)

Australia, showing Mr Ernest Giles’ Explorations from...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:07:05 +0000

Australia, showing Mr Ernest Giles’ Explorations from 1872-1876. Taken from Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Explanation.