No discussion of 1:1 maps would be complete without mention of Umberto Eco's essay "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1"
It is a must read (as is the entire book, really): http://books.google.com/books?id=_ntDTaMUys8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq="On+th e+Impossibility+of+Drawing+a+Map+of+the+Empire+on+a+Scale+of+1+to+1."&so urce=bl&ots=E3ljUpI76K&sig=VIxB7BKrHectseJtMpcD8fydpUg&hl=en&ei=iZ9xS7_- J4bYsgOxmbiTCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAg#v= onepage&q=%22On%20the%20Impossibility%20of%20Drawing%20a%20Map%20of%20th e%20Empire%20on%20a%20Scale%20of%201%20to%201.%22&f=false <http://books.google.com/books?id=_ntDTaMUys8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=%22On +the+Impossibility+of+Drawing+a+Map+of+the+Empire+on+a+Scale+of+1+to+1.% 22&source=bl&ots=E3ljUpI76K&sig=VIxB7BKrHectseJtMpcD8fydpUg&hl=en&ei=iZ9 xS7_-J4bYsgOxmbiTCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEw Ag#v=onepage&q=%22On%20the%20Impossibility%20of%20Drawing%20a%20Map%20of %20the%20Empire%20on%20a%20Scale%20of%201%20to%201.%22&f=false> Perry From: geowanking-boun...@geowanking.org [mailto:geowanking-boun...@geowanking.org] On Behalf Of Mike Liebhold Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:22 PM 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 http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list Geowanking@geowanking.org http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
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