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oldmapgallery, 10 days ago to maps

Charles Owens was a prolific mapmaker and illustrator that conveyed the international complexities of WWII in a way that was accessible to the average person. People at the time even saved his maps as a point of reference, such as this for the perils of the submarine warfare of the Atlantic and beyond in 1943.

#maps #History #map #cartography #WWII #dataviz

oldmapgallery, 19 days ago to maps

The first time we saw this altered history of Chicago, we laughed and laughed, had always encountered small original versions of the print in books, and thought it was so creative.
But now I worry that centuries in the future a conspiracy theorists will anchor their arguments with the altered image.

https://alternatehistories.com/products/chicago-in-1820

#maps #history #map #Chicago #conspiracy

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oldmapgallery, 1 month ago to maps

There is a wonderful period in the late 1950's and 60's where science fact and science fiction intermingle as enthusiasm for the space age was gaining momentum.
In this Solar System map (c. 1966) the latest views from the Mariner IV are mixed with a manned vehicle to Mars and views from the surfaces of numerous planets. There's and optimism that made things feel attainable.

#maps #space #map #dataviz #cartography #spacex #history

oldmapgallery, 2 months ago to random

Years ago we were searching for information on a mapmaker, & couldn't find a thing. In a wild attempt, we searched her up, & she was still around!! And she was open to talking to us!!!
This changed everything.
We realized the history we were looking for might still be accessible & open to interview. We felt charged to find & interview makers that made an impact.
The most recent is an interview with a Denver legend in cartography, the founder of Pierson graphics.

https://newprojectionspodcast.com/

oldmapgallery, 2 months ago to maps

We love the Ordnance Survey's work for their amazing diligence in ever progressing toward greater accuracy... but we love them even more for works like this from 1935, "Britain In The Dark Ages" . A historical look back full interesting archaeological notations.

Is it just us, or does this feel like it might have been a big influence on later fantasy land mapmakers?

#maps #England #map #fantasy #cartography #history

The southwestern reaches of England with scads of notations for "memorial stones"

oldmapgallery, 2 months ago to maps

There was a time when Native Americans were going to be given the West, at least from the Great Plains into the Rockies. The U.S. govt created this map to look at the practical border, as system of forts and roads that would be established west of Missouri, Arkansas, etc.
This was a possible configuration in 1838.
It was dismissed in a matter of years.

#maps #nativeamerican #map #history #indigenous

oldmapgallery, 3 months ago to maps

Find your hometown on Pangea, but don't stop there, look at it during the Cretaceous, or once the first primates appeared... so fun...

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#470

#maps #dataviz #geography #map #history

oldmapgallery, 3 months ago to space

From Samuel Dunn, (c. 1774), centered on the Sun with a notation about its black spots and how they "move from East to West", this is a state of the art depiction of our solar system as best as it was known at the time. Notes six planets and their moons, with Jupiter having 4 (now counted as 95 moons) and Saturn as having 5 (now totaled up to 146 moons).

#space #science #celestial #map #dataviz #maps

oldmapgallery, 3 months ago to maps

It's 1839, the coronation of Queen Victoria happened just the year prior... As well as the opening of the National Gallery. And here is the latest edition of Pigot's map for London, and the 14 miles extending around St Paul's.

#maps #London #map #geography #history

oldmapgallery, 4 months ago to maps

New technologies can redefine the role of a region.
Here, in 1906, a part of the eastern reaches of Canada, and look at Nova Scotia, all those submarine cables were ushering a growing age of communication, and would underpin the connected age we live in now.

#maps #datavis #map #science #sciencehistory

oldmapgallery, 4 months ago to maps

After J.R.R. Tolkien saw the wonderful map that Pauline Baynes had done for his fictional world of "Middle Earth", he was so pleased that he told C.S. Lewis to have the same done for Narnia.

Here is Baynes beautiful look at Narnia, and always loved how she somehow really captured something of the kindness of Aslan the lion.

#maps #literature #map #dataviz #fantasy #narnia

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oldmapgallery, 5 months ago to random

Oh. my. gosh. This is beautiful.

A 3D of the Shinjuku Station...

https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/

oldmapgallery, 5 months ago to Dragonlance

For a quick holiday ornament.
Cut, paste (tape) assemble globe.

#map #holidays #maps #dataviz

oldmapgallery, 5 months ago to maps

We love stories of late bloomers that pursue their passions.
Ernest Dudley Chase had a pretty successful career in greeting cards, but after he retired, he got to chase after his dream of making maps. He was met with success, and became popular for his intricate pictorial maps.
Always loved how he created a unique compass rose on each map. Here are just a few.
Never too old to try.

#maps #dataviz #map #pictorial #history.

oldmapgallery, 6 months ago to maps

Mistakes happen. But not often.
We can only think of a few maps with mistakes, done as map makers tried to keep up with the flurry of changes to all those western U.S. territories. It would have been a challenge, especially from the 1830's to the late 1860's. And sometimes, maps from this era can be an amalgam of configurations.

Here, a good map from a French publisher in the late 1860's, but they kind of transposed the territories of Idaho and Montana.

#maps #Montana #map #history

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oldmapgallery, 6 months ago to random

didn't kissinger outrageously slander Christopher Hitchens calling him a "holocaust denier"? Will let Hitchens have the last word on him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WzADkEaZII

oldmapgallery, 6 months ago to maps

Thinking about making a catalog of maps themed around "your empire is unraveling"

Here, the almost unimaginable dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1992, which caught many off guard, including vast swaths of the U.S. intelligence community, apparently.

This map shows the first steps of the decentralized nations that now begin to start over.

#maps #dataviz #map #politics

oldmapgallery, 6 months ago to random

more interesting folk... part 2
Thiago Carvalho " from B cells to T cells."
@cyrilpedia

Open Culture (Official)
@openculture

Rudy Rucker Author, Mathematician, Artist, OG Cyberpunk
https://sciencemastodon.com/@rudytheelder@mastodon.social

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 "Star map and Atomic Rocket geek..."
@nyrath

Ride Theory (nice gent, diverse topics)
@ridetheory

Charles Seife "Journalist, NYU professor,...Author of several books, most recently a biography of Stephen Hawking..."
@cgseife

oldmapgallery, 6 months ago to random

we keep finding interesting people to follow... part 1

Conspiracy of Cartographers
@ConspiracyOfCartographers

Nicole Martinelli ( founder of resiliency maps)
@nmar

Backpack and Snorkel (interesting travel posts)
@backpackandsnorkel

Bread and Circuses "Retired NGO executive doing my best to stay informed and raise awareness "
@breadandcircuses

legraLeGra NASA, Goddard Specializing in abrupt and extreme climate change of the past present and future.
@atthenius

mastodonmigration, 6 months ago to TeslaMotors

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is posting excerpts this morning from Maria Farrell's @mariafarrell remarkable take down of Silicon Valley and it's sociopathic "boy kings." The entire piece will leave you breathless.

Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder >>> https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/

#SiliconValley #Musk #tech

oldmapgallery, 7 months ago to maps

For those about to run, we salute you!
Tomorrow is the New York City Marathon, and it's a massive, spectacle of an event, full of human moments. From back in 1985, this pictorial map shows a few of those unique times where the nuns helped up a runner, or a man disappeared down a pothole, or the Hasidim offered up seltzer relief!

#maps #NYC #map #dataviz

oldmapgallery, 7 months ago to Dragonlance

"Furnishing a palpable proof of the daily rotation of the earth..."

a favorite frontispiece from 1860 showing the practical wonder of time and how it could be illustrated around the world. The Geographical Clock, also notes how the new technology of telegraphy confirms it!
#map #dataviz #maps #earth #technology

oldmapgallery, 8 months ago to Dragonlance

Ralph Shane was a young graduate in engineering when the great depression hit, and he left Illinois for a potential job building roads and bridges in Montana. Aside from work and a new life, he also discovered his love and fascination for native history and did a series of maps that documented specific tribes and regions.
Here his map for the Northern Cheyenne in southeast Montana from 1960

#map #Native #maps #Nativeamerican #dataviz #indigenous

Shane well illustrates how the demise of the Bison caused the end to a whole way of life.
A poignant notation on the "Ghost Dance" movement and it's unthinkable end.

gutenberg_org, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to books

German theoretical physicist Max Planck died #OTD in 1947. Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame rests primarily on his role as originator of the quantum theory. This theory revolutionized our understanding of atomic and subatomic processes, just as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity revolutionized our understanding of space and time. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. via @Britannica

Books by Max Plack at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35343

#books #physics

oldmapgallery, 8 months ago to maps

From the late 1670's comes a great "strip" map by John Ogilby. Here, to get from Presteigne to Carmathen, in Wales it's a practical method to keep one on the correct route to a destination, reference landmarks & stay on the route.
It's interesting that when automobiles became popular, early roads atlases used this same route method to get drivers to their next destination, by identifying landmarks and keeping them on a solitary path.

#maps #dataviz #cartography #map #datavisualization

From 1919, a driver's guide to getting to destinations around Colorado Springs. It also uses a familiar "route" method, not unlike Ogilby from centuries prior.