Speaking of analog maps... One of my favorites was the Skoda & Robertson mechanical cartogram:
http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/27/ -Eric P.S. Danny Dorling's diminutive yet definitive book on cartograms is now online: http://qmrg.org.uk/files/2008/11/59-area-cartograms.pdf -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Kathleen Danielson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > My favorite map is incredibly low-tech-- I've always liked John Snowe's > map > > of the cholera outbreak and the contaminated water pump on Broad Street > in > > London (context). Many of my professors (both public health and > geography) > > showed us this map in college and I just liked the story around it and > its > > implication on the future of public health and epidemiology. > > > > That is an awesome example of early analog geospatial analysis. It was > one of the first maps I thought of when I was writing a brief intro to > GIS for my online course. It's a great story to tell (in spite of the > dreadful topic). > > -- > martijn van exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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