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First: to 'MAPS-L'; second: to 'Lis-maps' (but copied to 'MapHist'):- The substance of 'The Independent' (UK) internet piece, as per URL supplied in Tracey P. Lauriault's posting below, differs from the hard copy version I saw over my early morning coffee (also today, Wed. 14th). Those with access to the differently-illustrate article 'Mapping the future' by the same Jerry Brotton in the section 'Independent Life', spread generously over pp.8-9, will still discover - IMHO - that it's virtually all an argument about Ordnance Survey [of Great Britain] versus Google [Earth]. And one colored image - not on the earlier posting's URL - is of "a globe [sic] from Google Earth" (i.e. approximately 2/3 of a sphere) centered approximately on Dublin, Republic of Ireland (not Georgia USA, where I once had a coffee stop en route to SHD's Annual Meeting in Savannah). It cannot but fail to incidentally remind some of us of the similar 2/3 of a sphere map to illustrate the article 'Most of the world is at war' in 'The War Weekly incorporating 'War Pictorial'' (London), issue no.13, 19 January 1940, p.397. This map is centered approximately on Batum, and its total extent is roughly the Andes - Alaska - New Zealand - Cape of Good Hope. (What amazing trivia can be gleaned from the internet) The hard copy text's historical background on Magellan et al. makes no mention of Matteo Ricci SJ, yet the top circular b&w image is of a northern hemisphere map that I suspect is an inset taken either from the Ricci 1602 woodcut world map, or from its [1644+] slightly amended reprint, which was recently a subject on 'MapHist' and on 'MAPS-L'. It is vaguely referred to here as "A 1602 [sic] with China at its centre (right)". However, as no credit to this hemispheric map is visible (or maybe I wasn't yet sufficiently awake) on the hard copy version, and I omitted to check the [1644+] state in the RGS this afternoon, I leave it to others to verify the item. Francis Herbert -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope Sent: 14 April 2010 14:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Uk Independent - Maps will always have mileage I'm forwarding an interesting article about the future of mapping. A quote: "Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, estimates that approximately 30 per cent of all Google searches are "geographical". Its search engine works in tandem with its geospatial application to order global knowledge in a completely new way. Rather than classifying things according to numerical or alphabetical order, Google uses a geographical order. When we ask Google for information, it is increasingly delivered to us based on how near it is to us. " Angie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Uk Independent - Maps will always have mileage Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:35:01 -0400 From: Tracey P. Lauriault <[email protected]> Reply-To: CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives <[email protected]> To: [email protected] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/maps-w ill-always-have-mileage-1943832.html -- Tracey P. Lauriault 613-234-2805 https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
