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 <[email protected]> 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:* [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike Liebhold >> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:22 AM >> *To:* David Asbury >> *Cc:* [email protected] >> *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 <[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
