OF SPACES IN-BETWEEN

Guardian article (29/01/13) on anxieties surrounding Google Maps and state & corporate data tracking/surveillance.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/29/google-maps-gchq-a-to-z

Reblogged from Progressive Geographies

An auditory tribute to Harry Beck’s Underground map, the
skeleton which has long lent shape to the city in the minds of Londoners. Here
sounds were collected from along London’s canals and lesser rivers. Completed
in March 2012.

– See more at: http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways

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I’m not entirely sure what motivated someone to map places mentioned in Tom Waits’s songs, but as a long time Waits fan I felt duty bound to share.

http://tomwaitsmap.com/

A SERIES OF SEVEN SEMINARS EXPLORING NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL CARTOGRAPHY


During the past decade the development of open source digital technologies has for the first time put the means of mapping in the hands of ordinary citizens. The ordinary person can now create maps that tell their own story, use GPS to plan journeys by land and sea, or go ‘geo-caching’ and adventure into new and unfamiliar environments in search of buried treasure…

See Living Maps Network: http://www.livingmaps.org.uk/

“The map that saved the London Underground…”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25551751

Re-blogged from Progressive Geographies

Dylan Maryk has
made a Google Map of London Underground’s abandoned or relocated stations; usvsth3m has
turned this into a map based on the standard Underground map.

http://usvsth3m.com/post/52135944891/ghost-stations-of-the-london-underground-on-the-classic

Google’s Road Map to Global Domination

New York Times Magazine, 11 Dec 2013:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html?ref=international-home&_r=0

[Re-blogged from Progressive Geographies]

A neat bit of cartography – taking a data feed from Transport from London and turning it into a live map. The Skyfall version is also very cool and there are others for mainline trains, etc. Thanks to Nistasha Kaul for the link.

http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

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