Hacker News with Generative AI: Cartography

Virality in cartography: What makes a map go viral? (geoawesome.com)
When you think about viral content, maps are not the first thing that comes to mind. And yet, it is not uncommon to see maps of all shapes and sizes dominating social conversations about various issues – as well as non-issues.

Cartography, Viral Content, Social Media

67 points by bryanrasmussen 11 days ago | 15 comments

Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink (2020) (magazine.tcu.edu)
Indigenous maps of colonial Mexico in the 16th to 18th centuries — and the materials used to create them — have captured Alex Hidalgo’s imagination for nearly a decade.

History, Cartography, Indigenous Cultures, Mexico, Colonialism

16 points by mooreds 18 days ago | 0 comments

The First Atlas (cosmographia.substack.com)
The fifty year period between 1550-1600 is often called the golden age of cartography.

Cartography, History, Golden Age, Geography

5 points by diodorus 22 days ago | 0 comments

Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585) (publicdomainreview.org)
A geographer named Abraham Ortelius produced in 1570 a bound bundle of fifty-three maps. It was the first global atlas, and became a bestseller; Ortelius titled it Theater of the World. A few years later, Jean de Gourmont imposed an “Ortelius projection” — the globe flattened into an oval — onto the visage of a court jester: an imago mundi as feast of fools.

History, Cartography, Art

19 points by pepys 33 days ago | 1 comments

What a circle around Paris looks like, according to Mr. Mercator (reddit.com)
That's really cool actually. Shows how disproportionate our standard rectangular map of the earth is.

Cartography, Geography, Maps

4 points by jtc331 40 days ago | 0 comments

Avoidance Mapping: What It Is and Where It Fits in the Cartography Cube (geoawesome.com)
“… we all try to steer clear of certain places and people, whether we’re aware of it or not.” (Source)

Cartography, Data Visualization, Mapping, Spatial Analysis, Human Behavior

25 points by bryanrasmussen 60 days ago | 9 comments

All Maps Are Wrong (hereandthere.club)

Cartography, Maps, Geography, Perspective

14 points by todsacerdoti 75 days ago | 2 comments

Adventures in mapmaking: the search for grayscale tiles (pnote.eu)

Mapping, Cartography, Design, Open Source

35 points by przem8k 137 days ago | 7 comments

Wrong Map of Europe (phinjensen.com)