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.
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.
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*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>>
<mailto: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?
???
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