@elosang

Atlases and Maps

 Leipzig
Joined November 2010
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‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s theguardian.com/environment/…

‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s

From elephants to tigers, study reveals scale of damage to wildlife caused by transformation of wildernesses and human activity

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Ask 10 cartographers to map the same data & you'll get 10 different maps. Here, the @NACIS_Atlas team collated the contributor definitions of (map) design. Guess what...no two definitions are the same. And THAT is what makes #cartography such a rich, diverse, exciting discipline.
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The Times They Are A-Changin' Russian War Relief, Inc., and E. Means. "38,000,000 escaped -- 10,000,000 died." Map. New York: Russian War Relief, Inc., [ca. 1940–1949]. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, collections.leventhalmap.org… (accessed July 19, 2022).
We have a new blog! 🥳 Discover the three critical choices made in order to develop a machine learning pipeline to map solar facilities in satellite imagery. ow.ly/2HCA50JjNRV @DescartesLabs
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Combine the game with a todays Michelin map and its thorough fun!
Allard Pierson@allard_pierson24 Apr 2022
Vandaag gaat Frankrijk naar de stembus! Hier zie je een bordspel uit 1820 met alle departementen van Frankrijk. Nummer 1 is Parijs, nummer 90 heel Frankrijk. OTM: HB-KZL 107.13.18)
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We've updated our walking subway map with new stations and some fixes! The map shows approx. walking times between all of the stations on the Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway. This time of year is perfect for exploring the city on foot. ☀️👢 (Download: buff.ly/3K6EPX4)
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#MapMonday On this in 1942, the 'Bath Blitz' began; 3 nights of bombing on the city by the Luftwaffe in which 417 people were killed, alongside over 19,000 buildings being damaged. This map from @bathnesBRO shows building damage across the city
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🆕 updated Zoï situation map on War in #Ukraine - Context and impact on the #environment. One month into the war, there is no end in sight, only more suffering and despair, loss of life and environmental destruction.
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@ISHMAP@ISHMAP114 Mar 2022
new book: Junia Furtado's Quebra-Cabeça Africano, how a Portuguese ambassador, a French geographer, an English writer and an imaginary pirate transformed the cartography of Africa/opened the door to Imperialism. Belo Horizonte: Miguilim/Odisseia 2021
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Requested by @BryanBierman - our attempts tondraw Australia from memory. We'll what do you want? This is a movie podcast, not a cartography podcast! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Get our episode on Baz Luhrmann's AUSTRALIA (2008) from @MovieJawn or anywhere you get pods! 🔗👇
Allison's drawing superimposed over a map of Australia. She basically drew it upside down, but largely got the important bits right

ALT Allison's drawing superimposed over a map of Australia. She basically drew it upside down, but largely got the important bits right

Hunter's drawing superimposed over a map of Australia. He basically drew Texas, turns out.

ALT Hunter's drawing superimposed over a map of Australia. He basically drew Texas, turns out.

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👷🏼I would get lost here for sure. Would you?👷🏼 patreon.com/danielsmaps #fantasymaps #rpg #dnd #cartography
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jane pong@officeofjane22 Feb 2022
Within a year, we covered two Olympics: Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022. How are summer and winter games different? @jwf825, @YasufumiSaito and I looked at *all the data* 🏅 bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…

The Winter Olympics Are Won by a Small Circle of Countries, Over and Over

There’s an exclusive club of nations that keeps winning the Winter Olympics — despite efforts to bring more diversity into the competition.

bloomberg.com
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We are delighted to open registration for our next Teatime Talk, free to all BCS members. A magical mystery tour of British cities – Soviet style Date: Thursday 17 February, 5pm Speaker: Dr Alexander Kent Register: members see your emails to book your free space #event #talks
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XKCD Comic
@xkcdComic5 Feb 2022
Sea Chase xkcd.com/2577/ m.xkcd.com/2577/
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Could you be our next #Maplines magazine designer? @bcsmaps are inviting quotes from graphic designers for the design of our membership magazine. Deadline: 31 March 2022 bit.ly/3AOBJnw #design #creative #magazine #layout #maps #freelancejobs #freelancer #graphicdesign
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2022 RISTOW PRIZE IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY from @wmsmapsociety The Walter W. Ristow Prize for an Academic Paper in the History of Cartography. Deadline 1st June 2022. bit.ly/3HfqNlr
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The winners of the Map Exhibition at #ICC #Florence can be found here: icaci.org/map-awards/. In the atlas section two coffee table atlases are in the Top 3. An exhibition catalogue is also available.
Atlases are wonderful time capsules!
Leventhal Map & Education Center at the BPL@bplmaps15 Jan 2022
On this day in 1919, 2.5 million gallons of hot molasses burst from its tank at 529 Commercial Street in Boston’s North End (notice the tank pictured as a blue circle). These atlas excerpts from 1917 & 1922 document the landscape before & after the flood. bit.ly/3eZsp6a
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quigley@QuigleyQuagmire6 Jan 2022
Scenes from my 1954 Hammond-Doubleday #maps #atlas
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Maps are more and more often produced using #D3 #Datavisualization. On geo-projections.com/ you can explore the libraries options for map projections.
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