Don’t Be Hating on Mercator
The hipsters are hating on Mercator all over twitter and the blogs. I don’t know about you but I’m grateful for Mercator every time I travel. I seem to move left and right from Phoenix on a map. Plus who cares about Greenland? Let them have their big map, you don’t want to live there anyway.
MercatorFTW
Look, if you’d rather live in a world of the Bonne projection I won’t stop you. I’ll just come find you on my practical Mercator map.
Map CC-By-SA: Strebe
This Week’s Hangout:: They Tell Me Ian White Needs to be on Your Hangout
Well it’s time to start things back up, Friday, February 1st at 10am MST. Hangouts With James Fee: Attitudes Across Latitudes will have our first guest since “the break”. Ian White of Urban Mapping joins me to talk about why he was the last host of This Week in Maps (i can’t even find a link to it) podcast to join my hangout. WeoGeo was kind enough to give me all the code for the webpages, but I’ve been too busy to get that all back up. In the meantime I’m doing this old-school on Google+ Events. Just go to the event page and it will take care of everything else.
HWJF
As always we’ll be talking on IRC. Join #hwjf on chat.freenote.com or online.
This Week’s Hangout:: They Tell Me Ian White Needs to be on Your Hangout
Well it’s time to start things back up, Friday, February 1st at 10am MST. Hangouts With James Fee: Attitudes Across Latitudes will have our first guest since “the break”. Ian White of Urban Mapping joins me to talk about why he was the last host of This Week in Maps (i can’t even find a link to it) podcast to join my hangout. WeoGeo was kind enough to give me all the code for the webpages, but I’ve been too busy to get that all back up. In the meantime I’m doing this old-school on Google+ Events. Just go to the event page and it will take care of everything else.
HWJF
As always we’ll be talking on IRC. Join #hwjf on chat.freenote.com or online.
New NACIS Award for Imaginative Cartography
Looks like the NACIS has a new award that recognizes “imaginative cartography” aptly named the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography.
Cartography is often seen by the public as work opposed to imagination, grounded entirely in established fact. While this devotion to reflecting what is forms the heart of cartographic thinking, cartographers and artists who use maps as a basis for their work can (and do) take that grounding in fact and use it to venture into the world of the possible. Some explore real places from perspectives that allow us to see it fresh and full of possibility, and some take our established traditions of mapmaking, and indeed take fully-constructed maps themselves, and turn them on their heads to make us see ourselves anew. This award is to recognize this work and the perspective it brings to the field of cartography, and the contributions it makes to the world as a whole.
Sounds quite interesting, doesn’t it? All nominations should be submitted by email to cb@nacis.org. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2013. More details on what needs to be submitted is on the webpage. I wasn’t aware of who Corlis Benefideo was but this old blog post should fill you in.
New NACIS Award for Imaginative Cartography
Looks like the NACIS has a new award that recognizes “imaginative cartography” aptly named the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography.
Cartography is often seen by the public as work opposed to imagination, grounded entirely in established fact. While this devotion to reflecting what is forms the heart of cartographic thinking, cartographers and artists who use maps as a basis for their work can (and do) take that grounding in fact and use it to venture into the world of the possible. Some explore real places from perspectives that allow us to see it fresh and full of possibility, and some take our established traditions of mapmaking, and indeed take fully-constructed maps themselves, and turn them on their heads to make us see ourselves anew. This award is to recognize this work and the perspective it brings to the field of cartography, and the contributions it makes to the world as a whole.
Sounds quite interesting, doesn’t it? All nominations should be submitted by email to cb@nacis.org. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2013. More details on what needs to be submitted is on the webpage. I wasn’t aware of who Corlis Benefideo was but this old blog post should fill you in.
GIS for those who hate GIS
I’ve been helping a couple people out the past week or two with some GIS projects, since I have some time…
Anyway, it is a good reminder as to why I’ve been trying to change how I do GIS. It all feels like trying to use a screw driver to hammer a nail. So much of what we do is one compromise over another. I picked up a project and I swear the PM put his hand on my shoulder and said, “I’m sorry”. What a miserable life we all lead.
