Yes! This makes me feel a sort of wonder combined with dread every time I think of it. A map with no features is useless and a map with every feature is useless - the value of maps is therefore the judicious exclusion of features. Thus, the dread. There I am, adding every tree, every bus stop, every stop sign, and I wonder - am I doing it? Am I making the Borges Map?
B On Feb 8, 2010 2:44 PM, "David Asbury" <asb...@cemar.org> wrote: And, of course, the classic: And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!" "Have you used it much?" I enquired. "It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well. -- Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). Here are a number of other thoughts... http://3stages.org/c/gq.cgi?first=QAMAP David Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote: > > Here's a story about 1:1 mapping: > > """ > On Exactitude in Sc... -- David Asbury GIS Analyst/Cartographer Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration 4179 Piedmont Avenue, Suite 325 Oakland, CA 94611 Voice: 510.420.4565 x105 Fax: 510.420.1345 email: asbury at cemar.org web: cemar.org
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