Sorry. Didn't read on. Eco elaborates after that page. -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 2010/2/9 Eric Wolf <[email protected]> > That's not Eco, it's Eco quoting Borges' "On Exactitude in Science" > > -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- > 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 Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Perry Tancredi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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+the+Impossibility+of+Drawing+a+Map+of+the+Empire+on+a+Scale+of+1+to+1."&source=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%20the%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=iZ9xS7_-J4bYsgOxmbiTCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAg#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:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike Liebhold >> *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2010 3:22 PM >> >> *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]><[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] >> 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 >> >> >
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