Posts under ‘Maps’

I hadn’t heard that there was a special version of Canvas with GIS capabilities (or that Canvas is no longer a Deneba product): http://www.acdamerica.com/arcnews/default.html Does anyone know if this software allows you to import a set of vectors from Illustrator CS2 and geo-reference them? Then convert to another projection? Then export back to Illustrator? The [...]

USGS to Release TerraLook: “The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today the upcoming release of the TerraLook data product. TerraLook consists of a collection of JPEG images created from ASTER images from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS Center [...]

Hardly anyone has used the octant map/projection since 1514 or so. At least it is hard to find examples. So I put it to use in the Art of Geography logo. Many people have commented on the logo… I thought it would be interesting to delve into this unusual projection/map. The following article explains more [...]

Soviet-Era Topo Maps of Russian Cities: “Paul sends along a link to these scans of topo maps of Russian cities. The Soviet-era maps date from the 1980s, from what I can tell; they’re downloadable as very large TIFF files. Previously: Soviet Mapping Update; Soviet Spies…” (Via The Map Room.)

Breaking News: Google Earth 4.0: “News from Google’s Geo Developer Day, reported by Google Earth Blog, Ogle Earth and The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Google Earth version 4.0 (beta) is now available, with a new interface for all platforms. I say ‘all platforms,’ because there is…” (Via The Map Room.)

Manhattan Elsewhere: “Depending on your vantage point, Manhattan seems either very big or very small. On complete map of the New York City area, Manhattan is dwarfed in size by the other four boroughs and surrounding megopolis. But for someone on the ground in Manhattan, the population density, the height of the buildings, the endless [...]

“Young adults in the United States fail to understand the world and their place in it, according to a survey-based report on geographic literacy released today. … Sizeable percentages do not know that Sudan and Rwanda are in Africa (54% and 40% answer incorrectly, respectively). In fact, 20% place Sudan in Asia and 10% put [...]

Ben Macintyre writes in the Times Online: “The paper map will soon die, and with it something central to human experience. There is a joy is not knowing exactly where you are. The electronic gizmo takes you from A to Z, but it does not show you the place you never knew about, off at [...]

Freehand/Illustrator Switcher Guide from Adobe: “Adobe recently added a Freehand to Illustrator Migration Guide to its Web site, adding to speculation that there is no future for Freehand” (Via The Mac Observer.)

Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that they hope will someday enable people to browse online maps for up-to-the-minute information about local gas prices, traffic flows, restaurant wait times, and more. Eventually, says Suman Nath, a Microsoft researcher who works on the project, which is called SenseWeb, they would like to incorporate the technology [...]

Bernhard Jenny and Nathaniel Vaughn announced the availability of Color Oracle (http://colororacle.cartography.ch/) for Mac OS 10.3.9 and above (freeware). Links are provided at the site for Windows compatable tools too. Color Oracle takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time how people with common color vision deficiencies will [...]

Now the galleries are hyperlinked, so if you view the map from within Acrobat or your browser, you can click on a gallery icon to open that gallery’s webpage, which might be handy if you want to preview what they are showing. Some galleries appear not to have websites, so I left them unlinked. If [...]