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strange maps

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:26:16 GMT

eccentric, exotic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, flaky, freaky, grotesque, kinky, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, unusual, weird, eldritch, uncanny, unearthly, weird, rare maps

Tele Atlas Map Insight

emmineb — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:57:08 GMT

Tele Atlas uses a unique approach to update our maps, including the latest mobile mapping technology, professional drivers and tens of thousands of data sources to provide you with the freshest, richest, and most accurate map data available.

Amadeus World Time Zone Calculator

emmineb — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:16:42 GMT

gmt cet est pacific daylight saving

Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project

emmineb — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:35:15 GMT

a geographical & "genographical" world map illustrating when & where ancient humans moved around the world, as a visual explanation about the appearance & frequency of genetic markers in modern people. the interactive application also acts as the basis of depicting your personal ancient ancestors & genetic lineage around the world through the ages, after sending back your own DNA sample.

BBC NEWS: Middle East | Iraqis use internet to survive war

emmineb — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:29:23 GMT

Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad. As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads. One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block. It's another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes.

Edward Tufte: Posters and Graph Paper Napoleon's March

emmineb — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:11:50 GMT

<> <> Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales. Exquisitely printed in two colors on fine archival paper, 22” by 15

Maps - All The Worlds Maps - A Compilation of Each Nation's Maps - Including Cities

emmineb — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:40:44 GMT

Maps, Weather, and Airports of the World

emmineb — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:43:12 GMT

temperature precipitation cloud cover meteo meteorology climate

radicalcartography

emmineb — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:27:54 GMT

f we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.

The maps from the Voyages Extraordinaies

emmineb — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:00:39 GMT

On this page you will find scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels. Apart from the original maps as published in the Hetzel editions, I have also received a number of maps in exactly the same style, but in another language, or with some minor differences. I keep these other maps on a different page. The majority of these maps use the meridian of Paris as prime meridian.