Mastodawn

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Dec 13, 2023

World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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https://worldchess.com/news/all/world-chess-unveils-the-first-ever-chess-map-a-geographical-mast/ <-- shared article
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[sharing this is NOT an endorsement of this commercial product]
“World Chess is delighted to announce the release of the first-ever chess map of the world that blends the intricate worlds of chess and geography. This unique cartographic creation, where continents and places are crafted from chess openings with geographical names, promises to be a collector’s delight…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #chess #boardgames #boardgame #history #mapping #mapsasart #gischat #cartography #thematic #geography #chessgame #chessopenings #ancienthistory

World Chess Unveils the First-Ever Chess Map: A Geographical Masterpiece

World Chess is delighted to announce the release of the first-ever chess map of the world that blends the intricate worlds of chess and geography

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Dec 12, 2023

A World Map With No National Borders And 1,642 Animals
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/australia/a-world-map-no-borders-animals.html <-- shared media article
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H/T @evan Applegate
“In a hand-drawn map of the world, hundreds of animals sprawl across valleys and volcanoes, deltas and deserts…"
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #cartographer #art #artwork #mapsasart #gischat #NewZealand #NewZealander #COVID19 #pandemic #wildworld #handdrawn #map #expression #escape #AntonThomas #AntonThomasArt

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals

Anton Thomas, a New Zealander in Melbourne, Australia, has given three years of his life to a hand-drawn map of our planet and its animal inhabitants.

The New York Times

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Oct 30, 2023

Carte Du Tendre [Maps Of Tenderness]
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https://www.utopographie.com/archives/cartes-du-tendre/ <-- shared article
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"Conventionally the map is a tool which is used to locate oneself, to have certainty and proof, here the map is used to get lost…"
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“These [tenderness] cards are originally an analogy between the kiss and the separation of the two banks of a river, a game between the distinction of two territories divided by a natural border and the union of the two by the presence of a valley fertile in love.
Then, from simple trompe-l’oeil comes the requirement to write a place in cartography. Each kiss presents a probable situation of human settlement depending on its geographical environment.
Finally, the utopographic appetite is what allows a real pictorial research around the pixel, the line, and the color…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #maps #cartography #illustration #emotions #art #tenderness #mapsasart #human #humaninteraction #humanconnection

Cartes du Tendre

Clément Aubry

Conspiracy of Cartographers Sep 22, 2023

The Quebec Petrofuture ...

66m sea level rise on a 1956 Shell Oil base map from David Rumsey Maps

More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/

#quebec #StLawrenceRiver #Montreal #Gousha #mapArt #mapsAsArt #retrofuture #petrofuture #climatearson #solarpunk #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #climatechange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers Sep 22, 2023

Baltimore and environs Petrofuture ...

66m sea level rise on a 1956 Shell Oil base map

More:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com

#baltimore #maryland #mapArt #mapsAsArt #retrofuture #petrofuture #climatearson #solarpunk #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #Gousha #DavidRumseyMaps #climatechange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers Sep 20, 2023

The Petrofuture Canadian Maritime Provinces ... about as far north as this series goes.

...66m sea level rise on a 1956 Shell Oil base map from David Rumsey Maps

More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/

#quebec #StLawrenceRiver #PrinceEdwardIsland #BayOfFundy #NewBrunswick #NovaScotia #Maine #Gousha #mapArt #mapsAsArt #retrofuture #petrofuture #climatearson #solarpunk #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #climatechange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers Sep 13, 2023

The Boston Petrofuture map

The 66m of sea level rise is predicted by the #IPCCreport if all the world's ice caps melted.

More:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com

1956 map from the Rumsey Map Collection

#boston #massachusetts
#mapArt #mapsAsArt #retrofuture #petrofuture
#climatearson #solarpunk #oilandgasindustry #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #maps
#cartography #clifi #climateart
#conspiracyofcartographers

Conspiracy of Cartographers

Lifelines Research Aug 21, 2023

Will you just look at the shading on that reservoir...!

#MapMonday #HandcolouredMaps #MapsAsArt

Conspiracy of Cartographers Aug 19, 2023

It seems like an opportune time to repost this one. Here's a retrofuture sea level rise map for #CoachellaValley and #SaltonSea with 66m of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted.

#TropicalStormHilary #Coachella #PalmDesert #IndioCA #CahuillaLand #vintageMap #oldMaps #JoshuaTreeNP #slabCity #MapArt #mapsAsArt #solarpunk #shadedRelief #seaRiseMaps #seaLevelRise #seaLevelRiseMaps #climateChange #climateChangeMaps #maps #cartography #speculativeCartography #conspiracyOfCartographers