25 September 2012

GENERAL MAPPING

This rather regal looking chap is Stanislaw Maczek. Impressive medals right? Yep! However, even more impressive than this Polish tank general's military achievements though, is his efforts in constructing the world's largest outdoor relief map... of Scotland.

18 September 2012

COLOUR ME BAD

Flickr as a paintbrush is a work-in-progress project that attempts to 'average' the colour of thousands of user uploaded photos to produce a map that visualises the colour vibe of an area. Click here for more details.

11 September 2012

THE WAY TO A WOMAN'S HEART

Women are pretty easy to figure out, I don't know what all this confusion is about?!  D. W. Kellogg had them figured out in the 1830s, and even went so far as to create this map of a womans heart. Ok, so, possibly a little dated now, but it has such elegant old-school cartography that it makes up for any offence that it will probably cause.




04 September 2012

JUST COZ

You know how there are some people that claim that when you die you leave a ghostly residual presence behind (?) - well, what if the same were true for your virtual 'life' in computer games?! For one thing, those spooky zeros could then be mapped to reveal where we live our lives - like in this map of Just Cause 2