Assembling the world in an image : 15 of history’s most revealing maps

Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com

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Supply lines under Potsdamer Platz – Although meant to show something as pedestrian as the underground infrastructure of Berlin this map was far ahead of its time, both in its design, and also in being one of the first maps to treat the infrastructure of a city as a system of networks. The design of the map highlights one of the keys to successful map construction and which concerns itself with the mapmaker knowing what to leave out. Here we see no labels, text or anything else that might interfere with the perception of the network and spider web structure that the mapmaker was trying to get across to the viewer.

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Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com
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Human Mobility and the Spread of Ebola in West Africa, 2014 – Although we tend to think of maps as images fixed in time, modern cartography has sought to represent events that are dynamic and not in equilibrium. This map uses location information taken from more than 150,000 cell-phones to show population movement of individuals in West Africa to help predict possible routes for the spread of Ebola during the epidemic of 2014. It is a typical example of how modern cartography has expanded its boundaries to map not only geographic but also social phenomena.

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Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com

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On the Road – Cartographers are truly a strange breed. Most of us spend a great deal of time traveling, sketching the land and cityscapes in our little notebooks, and generally wishing we spent more of our time on the road. For my money Jack Kerouac’s novel captures that spirit of cartography in ways that even many maps cannot and to see that he actually graphically traced out the route of his more narrative journey, makes On the Road a real mapmakers book. Over the decades many readers of the novel have sat down and drawn for themselves the path of the exploits by Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity as they criss-crossed America in search of adventure and self-discovery. Kerouac’s hand drawn map is both a fictional plan for his writing and a real journey that he himself would make. What map isn’t a blending of both?

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