The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other virtual media. Drawing on five years worth of research, and divided into four key sections – infrastructure and traffic, information navigation, community and communication, artistic visions – the best and most interesting maps of cyberspace have been compiled into this unique atlas for the Internet age.

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Antiquariaat Sanderus, named after the famous Flemish historian, Antonius Sanderus, is specialised in antiquarian books, medieval manuscripts, antique maps and prints from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

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Denis Wood unmasks the map for what it is: a communication tool imbedded in culture, history, selected perspectives and–yes, sometimes–bias. Even the most simple map is a highly selected, generalized, and symbolized picture of something the mapmaker wishes to communicate… THE POWER OF MAPS explodes myths, offers insight, and arms the map user with the mapmaker’s perspective.

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Maps help us make sense of our world. A sampling of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division’s 4.5 million treasures has been digitized and is available in Map Collections: 1500 – 2003. This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking, and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided.

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The Map Room is a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe, covering everything from map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology.

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Conceived as a co-production between The Labyrinth Project, ZKM (Center for Art And Media) and cultural historian, Norman Klein, Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 combines a database detective story with a contemporary city symphony and a metanarrative reflection on storytelling in this new medium. The story’s setting is a three-mile radius near downtown Los Angeles, a city known for not having a center. This ethnically complex location is documented through archival stills and films and through contemporary images that either reproduce or evoke them.

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Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark’s pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau’s sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn’t. The reality is that map creation, or “cartography,” has only improved in its ease-of-use over time. In fact, with the recent explosion of inexpensive computing and the growing availability of public mapping data, mapmaking today extends all the way to the ordinary PC user. Mapping Hacks, the latest page-turner from O’Reilly Press, tackles this notion head on. It’s a collection of one hundred simple–and mostly free–techniques available to developers and power users who want draw digital maps or otherwise visualize geographic data. Authors Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, and Jo Walsh do more than just illuminate the basic concepts of location and cartography, they walk you through the process one step at a time. Mapping Hacks shows you where to find the best sources of geographic data, and then how to integrate that data into your own map. But that’s just an appetizer. This comprehensive resource also shows you how to interpret and manipulate unwieldy cartography data, as well as how to incorporate personal photo galleries into your maps. It even provides practical uses for GPS (Global Positioning System) devices–those touch-of-a-button street maps integrated into cars and mobile phones. Just imagine: If Captain Kidd had this technology, we’d all know where to find his buried treasure! With all of these industrial-strength tips and tools, Mapping Hacks effectively takes the sting out of the digital mapmaking and navigational process. Now you can create your own maps for business, pleasure, or entertainment–without ever having to sharpen a single pencil.

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ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING (March 2006) charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Featuring 40 essays by writers from the U.S. and Europe and several commissioned projects.
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Published by the University of Minnesota Design Institute
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