Don't forget that we regularly see maps that are even larger scale than 1:1! Xrays, circuit diagrams, CPU lithographs, organic chemical symbols.
And CAD normally deals with what is essentially a 1:1 map. -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf New! 720-334-7734 USGS Geographer Center of Excellence in GIScience PhD Student CU-Boulder - Geography GPG Public Key: http://www.h4h.net/ebwolf.public.key.txt On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Edward Vielmetti < edward.vielme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like maps of Michigan. some examples > > http://www.michiganmittens.com/ > http://cartophilia.com/blog/2008/11/michigan-mittens.html > http://www.michiblogger.net/372.php > > and this from London > > http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/02/glove-map/ > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:20 AM, R E Sieber <resie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They’re also referred to as anthropomorphic maps. Got this one from one > of > > my listservs" > > > >>AM are exactly scale 1:1. Anthropomorphic (body-part) maps were generated > >> by configuring the virtual body of a god or goddess over the area to be > >> mapped. Areas under each part of that body received the name of that > part. > >> These maps equate geography with (human) anatomy to produce place names > that > >> indicate where they are located relative to other places on the same > map. > > > >>Examples of these maps include "Old Man" Napi (creator of the Blackfoot > >> indians) and his "Old Woman" wife in Alberta, Canada; Hermes centered at > Mt. > >> Hermon (now on the Israeli-Syrian cease-fire line); and Aphrodite in > north > >> Africa. > > > > Renee > > > > > > Alan Keown wrote: > >> > >> Mike, > >> > >> Lewis Carrol was, in my opinion, fascinated by the apparent absurdities > >> that Mathematical concepts can generate when partnered with unbridled > >> extrapolation (or interpolation). > >> > >> As a reality check I would say that > >> > >> § “we” are not really creating maps; we make “models” of the real world > >> that can be presented as maps. > >> > >> § it will be a long time before we have anything like general coverage > at > >> a “scale” of even 1:1000, let alone 1:1 > >> > >> § “we” will not map everything – leaves on trees, blades of grass, door > >> handles (the list goes on) > >> > >> Which leads me to the email signature I used to use before adopting the > >> Sylvie and Bruno quote several years ago: > >> > >> “If I have a 1:1 model of the universe, does that make me God?” > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> AlanK > >> > >> /“…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. /The complete Sylvie and Bruno./ 1893. > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> *From:* geowanking-boun...@geowanking.org > >> [mailto:geowanking-boun...@geowanking.org] *On Behalf Of *Mike Liebhold > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:22 AM > >> *To:* David Asbury > >> *Cc:* geowanking@geowanking.org > >> *Subject:* Re: [Geowanking] 1:1 scale mapping > >> > >> wow thanks to both! this is a trove! > >> http://3stages.org/c/gq.cgi?first=QAMAP > >> > >> jorge luis borges, lewis carrol, gregory bateson, david foster wallace, > >> ... > >> > >> the crazy thing is we're building this 1:1 AR map. modern augmented > >> aeality is becoming precisely what lewis carrol said here: " the country > >> itself, as its own map" > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 2/8/10 2:44 PM, David Asbury 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 Science . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography > >> attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied > >> the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a > >> Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and > >> the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was > >> that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The > >> following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of > >> Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was > >> Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered > >> it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the > >> West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by > >> Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the > >> Disciplines of Geography. > >> > >> Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, > >> 1658 > >> > >> From Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew > >> > >> Hurley Copyright Penguin 1999 . > >> """ > >> > >> -B > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mike Liebhold <m...@well.com> > >> <mailto:m...@well.com> wrote: > >> > >> the arrival of viewfinder AR (augmented reality) is opening lots of > >> opportunities for near field focal plane maps of very dense local data. > >> > >> e.g. "show me labels, links, annotations and attributes for things and > >> places in my field of view" > >> > >> is 1:1 scale mapping a reasonable idea? > >> > >> can anyone here share pointers or stories about 1:1 scale mapping and > why > >> the idea has generated ridicule in the past? > >> > >> > >> ??? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geowanking mailing list > >> Geowanking@geowanking.org <mailto:Geowanking@geowanking.org> > >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geowanking mailing list > >> Geowanking@geowanking.org <mailto:Geowanking@geowanking.org> > >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geowanking mailing list > >> Geowanking@geowanking.org > >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > Geowanking@geowanking.org > > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > > > -- > Edward Vielmetti > Ann Arbor, MI 48104 > > Google Voice: +1 734 330 2465 > Web: http://vielmetti.typepad.com > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > Geowanking@geowanking.org > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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