2013-04-22
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dabcanboulet: Islands of London on Everything2.com (via)
It’s been over a decade ago since I had that experience regularly, but I know exactly what this feels like. He’s right: this is a great way to learn the city.
2012-09-26
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2012-08-30
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From jocochrane, the cover of g2 containing Oliver Burkeman’s excellent article on how Google and Apple’s digital mapping is mapping us. Some choice quotes:
In an era of previously unimagined opportunities for exploring the far-off and strange, we want mainly to stare at ourselves.
It’s hard to interpret the occasional aerial snapshot of your garden as a big issue when the phone in your pocket is assembling a real-time picture of your movements, preferences and behaviour.
What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
2012-02-23
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From the Metrography project:
all real world geographical locations of stations, railway tracks and thames riverbanks have been matched with the corresponding positions on the London Tube Map. In the image above this process is demonstrated, you can see the mapping of the river thames, victoria line and stations.
2011-11-07
2010-10-06
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Some Of The Different Arrangements Of Map Pins and of Beads Which Can be Used for Map Work, on DIY Cartography (via straup)
2010-09-06
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2010-03-26
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John McKinney, in Paper Maps Not Ready to Fold Yet in Miller-McCune Online Magazine (via straup)
This seems to be another example of digital manifestations losing serendipity…
