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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