A wonderful mix of evolving precision, and some mythical holdovers.
So much of the East Indies now becomes identifiable, but it looks like a land bridge connects Australia to Papua New Guinea. Note as well the lake which is the source to all the great rivers of SE Asia
#maps #history #map #Asia
The bias from Henry Luce, the republican publisher, here his map of the early years of F.D.R.
Starting in the upper left & apparently one mistake after another. (Notice the WPA workers resting on their shovels? They built the Lincoln tunnel, 30 hospitals, 280k of roads & more)
#maps #history #map
A favorite woodblock engraving from Sebastian Münster, c. 1558, showing some of the best of what was understood for Asia. (And including a wonderful Mermaid with a double tail)
#map #history #maps #asia
From 1802, and quickly new states and territories begin to take shape. Here numbered territories begin to look familiar...
#maps #history #map #usa
It's a game that was produced in many editions up into the 1970's. Here, well prior to the air age (c. 1911) was a game for exploring the world through the steamship and railroad routes around the world
#maps #history #map #travel #games
Was out skateboarding & did the deed. 8 screws & a big plate, back together.
My two hilarious brought the humor.
"Should I call & tell you're sponsors you are out for the season?"
- "Who's gonna tell Tony Hawk?"
"Who were your sponsors, geritol, metamucil, & life alert?"
#2026 #love #health
Producing an entirely different caliber of atlas at the time too. While so much was focused on the frontiers and colonial claims, Johnston was working at a macro and thematic level that was brilliant.
A certain macabre brilliance... that we really like
Post War, the exotic allure of Hawaii & Polynesian culture had to be so tempting. Easier air travel, disposable income, simpler times.
Prior to the surge of tourism & the unimaginable growth that would change so much, this was a promotional pictorial map for the islands.
#maps #Hawaii #map
Finding geography homework from the mid-19th century is a treasure. Some young student sketching out their world, recognizing where they were & probably noticing how much of the continent, or the world was unknown.
Fell out of the back of a school atlas we got in.
#maps #history #map #geography
"Search a map using natural language & LLMs"
llmparty.pixeletes.com/experiments/...
asked "what's a great place for dorks to hang out". M.I.T. libraries, British Museum, Cern, & San Diego Comicon.
I have hung out at some of those places & would love to go to Cern. Ouch.
#maps #nerd #map #culture
While it had been an international fascination long before America arrived, the U.S. certainly made impacts in the field, beyond the Wright brothers and Robert Goddard. The manufacturers, test pilots, military programs, on to the Space race. Here an overview.
#map #flight #maps #history
It wasn't Fulton.He didn't invent steamboats.
Here Mr Hutchings proves, w/ witness testimony, that he & Mr Fitch had done it decades prior.
Often an individual is imbued with the entirety of a development & invention, when actually, it's often a community/lineage of work that did it. #maps #history
An almost unrecognizable West (c. 1844) full of new territories, and a Texas panhandle that reaches up from modern day New Mexico and up into present day Wyoming.
Texans love this "stovepipe" panhandle, and how large it was.
#map #history #maps
In stumbling through estates and sales, we sometimes find interesting postcards. France in the early 20th century.
#politics #elections
Keeping up.
What was going to be native lands west of the Mississippi river, at one time, was now rapidly being divided into territories.
This map was published c. 1855, but an owner tried to keep up in the 1860's & brushed in new CO. & Dakota terrs.
#maps #history #map #Nebraska #Kansas #Colorado
In 1862, if you were introducing the geographical world to young people, you'd probably mention popular explorers, many wouldn't show the recent addition of submarine cable.
That cable is the infrastructure precursor to things like international calling & the internet.
#maps #history #map #tech
Have always loved this composition for part of Africa for all the diversity it covers, from the coast of Senegal, to Timbuktu, to Egypt and Ethiopia. It's a dizzying cross section of lands, languages and cultures.
#maps #Africa #map #history
Space Invader hasn't just made street art, but started a dialogue and community. Making his video game and pop culture inspired tile works, he put them up around cities, and made maps to curate a tour of his works. He later made an app for phones to find and log his work.
#maps #art #map #streetart
From Stone Henge (on the left, from 1953) to Burning Man (on the right, 2008), ritual/ceremonial sites are fascinating.
Humans have a track record for meeting at specific places at specific times, and sometimes they look kinda similar
#maps #science #map #history #archaeology
Interesting project for the Real-time radiation world map.
But, what's going on in Hungary?
www.gmcmap.com
#science #map #dataviz #maps #datavisualization
also very cool...
MapSCII – World map in terminal
github.com/rastapasta/m...
#maps #datavisualization #map #dataviz
So great. We had just been talking about how much longer the hummingbirds are going to be around, and where they are going. Now we know...
explorer.audubon.org/explore/spec...
#dataviz #map #datavisualization #maps #birds
Don't sleep on the U.S.G.S.
A classic masterpiece for the Grand Canyon which is easy to get absorbed into. The complexities of the region laid out in such elegant visual simplicity.
#maps #dataviz #map #datavizualition #grandcanyon
A favorite advertising map showing the Northern Pacific Line c. 1896, with that wonderful addition of that dog pointing the way west.
#maps #railroad #history #map
One of the favorite tech charts spans from Bell Labs and Shockley up to the 1980's, from the gent that coined the term "Silicon Valley"
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
There's a number of different tech lineage charts. I think Computer History Museum (the nice folks down in Mountain View, CA.) have done some over time too. And heavens knows there are tons of tech business lineage charts too.
It's all the interesting chaotic moments I could hope to learn about the New York Marathon, from the time under Mayor Koch when the start cannon wouldn't work, to when the Hasidim sprayed hot runners, or the infamous runner that caught a train and got busted.
#maps #history #newyork #nyc #map
A favorite dramatic depiction that includes the "Sea of the West", a vast inland sea that was hypothesized & grew into a recurrent feature on maps of early North America.
Dr McGuirk did the definitive study years back and made a webpage for his work...https://sea-of-the-west.info/introduction
In a quick glimpse one might think, oh, a phylogenetic tree. Where are the eukaryotes?
But this instance of arborization is about computer evolution. Reaching back to Eniac and beyond, and as recent as the 1980's. Could be the roots of AGI?
#tech #computer #dataviz #technology #history
