Below you will find a list of many things cartographic and online. Many of the links are referenced throughout this site with a few more I thought were interesting and/or fun. I shall endeavour to keep the links updated and apologise for any I miss (keep in mind the average life-span of a website is 2 days). I hope you find something of interest and here’s to ‘productive’ procrastination :)
Links followed by a * ideally require a faster connection i.e. broadband
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Cartographic Communication
An excellent and thorough introduction to map design from Colorado University.
Golledge, Reginald G. (1999) Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes.
Essentially a long book review this article nonetheless offers some interesting information on different approaches to researching wayfinding behaviour in humans and animals.
Cognitive Maps for Mobile Robots – An Object based Approach
A Phd thesis focused on what the title suggests. Not too technical and shows that truly interactive robotics is still a little way off.
Dynamic Choropleth Maps *
An interactive choropleth (thematic) map of America allowing the viewer to choose from a large list of environmental, health and demographic data to be displayed. Requires Java.
Choropleth map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedias definition of choropeth maps.
Geographic information system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedias definition of GIS.
What is GIS?
A brief and concise description of GIS and its applications. The host site GIS Lounge contains a variety of excellent links to everything GIS including free data sources, free software and other GIS sites.
Map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedias overview on the vast topic of maps.
Cognitive map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedias definition of cognitive mapping.
Cyber Cartography Peter Cho December 10, 2003
An intriguing essay on the issues surrounded the mapping of data and information flows. The link downloads a pdf of the essay.
An Atlas of Cyberspaces
'An atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, WWW and other emerging Cyberspaces.'
Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Maps of the Month Archives
A gallery of digital maps and applications. A great example of the diversity omap applicaion including maps of the net, fairy gardens and 3d biological structures. Mappa.Mundi examines information discovery on the Internet via an eclectic mix of ideas about technology, history, and the future of cyberspace.
Walrus - Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Map of the Month
A particularly interesting entry in the above gallery. An innovative new software WALRUS creates impressive 3d 'maps' of information that someone suggested looked akin to radioactive jellyfish.
Critical Cartography
An essay critiquing some of cartographies pre-eminent critics by Saul Albert a London based artist and theorist associated with the collective Twenteenth Century.
Data Art and the Anti-sublime
An insightful essay looking at, critiquing and theorising data art and artists. Lev Manovich makes some interesting historical parralells and divergences and offers his own views on the future direction of Data Mapping.
Carnegie Mellon Press Release: June 13, 2006
'Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions in 2-D Images.'
Cognitive Mapping without Visual Experience
A reasonably lengthy Essay by Simon Ungar from the Uni of Surrey looking at how congenitally bling people cognitively map space. Ungar presents past, present and future areas of research.
The Fine Art of GIS Cartography
David J. Endelman presents his thoughts on the possibilities of GIS as an artistic medium. A little dated (1999) yet interesting if you compare it with current GIS inspired artists (look at the Information Systems section of the digital artist directory on Conceptual Design/Info Arts Links).
Australian Map Circle Inc.; AMC
The Australian Map Circle Inc. (AMC) is an Australian group of map producers, users and curators which acts as a medium of communication for all those interested in maps.
Furtherfield.org
'Colluding with artists, critical poets, moisemakers & net nomads that reinvent the worlds that straddle earthly and digital zones.'
J.B.Krygier: Cartography as an Art and a Science?
An indepth look at the current and historical state of this ongoing debate.
J.B. Krygier: research
Home page of Ohio Wesleyan University based lecturer J.B. Krygier. His pages contain excellent links and he offers a generous preview of his book Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS co-authoured with Dennis Wood. Well worth a look.
Harley, J.B., The New History of Cartography, 1991
As the title suggests this essay by the late J.B. Harley, the 21st centuries pre-eminent cartography historian, takes a modern look at the roles maps have taken within world history. You will have to ignore the pop-ups.
Hegglund, John, Ulysses and the rhetoric of cartography
An analysis and critique on the substantial use of cartography in James Joyce’s, Ulysses.
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Reference
Conceptual Design/Info Arts Links
An incredibly comprehensive list of links to all things digital art including projects, individual artists/collectives and theory. This would have to be the definitive digital art reference online.
Maps refdesk.com
A list of links to maps and databases found on the net.
Maps on Other Web Sites - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Another list of links to maps and databases found on the net.
World Builder Projects
A page of links to worldbuilder sites. Basically like minded people creating fictitious worlds online, mainly fantasy and sci fi oriented.
MeL: Maps and Geographical Information Systems
A list of links to online maps and GIS.
The Map Shop - Main Frame - Adelaide
Australia’s largest map shop and a supporter of this project.
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Artists
Analogue Art Map Archive
Brainchild of Melbourne based artist Hugh Davies, Analogue Art Map looks at and maps social interaction via traditional and non-traditional analogue methods.
L00K: New York, September 11, Four Days Later
An installation project by designer Laura Kurgan.
Kathy Predergast
Traditional map-inspired work centering around the artist and her place in the world and history.
L00K: Monochrome Landscapes (2004)
A small series of minimalist satellite images by designer Laura Kurgan.
GPSdiary.org
An interesting approach to the artist's diary. Thorsten Knaub has documented his movements for an entire year via maps created from the GPS he carried with him.
You Are Here - Museu
Drawing with satellites and GPS. Another project by Laura Kurgan executed in 1996 and thus a good example of the first uses of GPS in art.
Earth from the Air
An exhibition of aerial photographs of the Earth's surface by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A little commercial but some intriguing images nonetheless.
Mobile Landscape Graz in Real Time
A project by the MIT based research facilty SENSEable City Laboratory, Mobile Landscape maps human interaction and communication via mobile phone usage.
Generating Art from a Computer Game. An Interview with Alison Mealey
Alison Mealey creates digital abstract images loosely based on portraits by mapping the movements of players and 'bots' within a computer game.
Lesson Plan: Road Map Relief - Mixed Media Painting
How to create abstract images from street maps for high school art teachers.
SENSEable City Laboratory
MIT based research facility concerned with the studying of sensor and handheld technologies and their impact on society.
Front door for New Color Organ Site
An impressive project by Jack Ox, Richard Rodriguez and David Britton that endeavours to create a tool that visualises music within a digital 3d environment.
C5
An exciting collective of academics and artists sharing an interest in landscape. Their primary concern being its navigation and representation thourgh GPS and GIS.
[Nullpointer]
A digital artist collective with a variety of concerns. Of particular interest here is Webtracer a downloadable tool that creates 3d maps of website hyperlinks, not too dissimilar from WALRUS.
Marcos Novak *
A digital artist who uses music to create 3d architectures. He provides acess to his eerie interactive 3d environments online. (requires a VRML viewer)
MIT researchers map city by cellphone
PhysOrg news: MIT researchers map city by cellphone.
The Geography of Art: Imaging the Abstract with GIS - Features
An article by Jim Coddington of MoMA outlining a project wherein GIS is used to analyse paint structures in abstract art, in this case Jackson Pollock.
WORLDPROCESSOR Catalog
The globe based artwork of Ingo Gunther.
Uncharted Territory
The catalogue for a group show of map-inspired art at Julie Saul Gallery, 2004.
Surface Patterns: Audio Tours
Part of the larger project Surface Patterns by the collective Blink, Jen Southern's Audio Tours allows the audience to listen and contribute to an audio database of memories centred around 10 mapped sites in Huddersfield, UK.
Alighiero Boetti
Deceased Italian artist Alighiero Boetti is probably best known for his alternative (and garish) world maps.
GALLERIA DUEMILA - Exhibitions
Joyce Kozloff's 'Target' series looks at a world shaped by war through the use of world globes and an impressive walk in globe.
Turbulence.org *
The website for an organisation committed to supporting and commisioning net based art. Contains excellent artist and project listings.
Lordy Rodriguez
Meticulously drawn maps of American states reimagined through the artists own experiences of the locations.
Joyce Kozloff
Joyce Kozloff's 'Boy's Art' uses the language of the military map peopled by superheroes, myths and legends.
Apartment *
Marek Walczak presents a tool for creating architectural space through the semantics of viewer imputted text.
A is for Apple (dot net) *
Not directly asscoiated with maps this online project visualises free association and the wandering train of thought. Parallels could also be made with cognitive mapping and above all it is fun. (requires Flash player)
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Projects
Internet Mapping Project *
A project concerned with the aquisition and archiving of the internets topology.
The Opte Project
Another internet mapping project that provides their application for download. Creates 3d firework-like maps of the net.
NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator
Downloadable surface maps of each planet.
ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
A fun little tool intended to assist cartographers in choosing colour charts for map design.
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01 *
This site allows the user to enter a website address which it then maps via tracing its links then continues to map the links from those sites. Each node is active and provides details about the linked site via dropdown menu. A great surfing tool. Requires Java.
CloudSat - Home
Colorado State University's Home Page for the NASA funded Cloudsat satellite. The purpose of the mission to provide detailed 3d data about clouds and precipitation allowing scientists to more accurately map and predict wheather and global warming. Includes the cloudscape paintings of the projects scientific director, Graeme Stephens.
NASA - CloudSat
NASA's home page for Cloudsat. Not as informative as the above but has some nice animations.
Ballarat 2 - The New Ballarat 3d Map *
A regional Australian town's 3d tourist map. Looks good but not all that functional as a map. (requires a VRML viewer).
Dun.AV Danube Panorama Project Introduction *
The aim of this ongoing project is to map the entire shore of the Danube River via an innovative photographic technique. Viewers can choose parts of the Danube to view the scrolling uninterrupted images.
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Downloads
Terragen™
Download site for Terragen a suprisingly easy to use and powerful 3d landscape generator.
Terragen tute
Thoroughly recommended for interested in trying Terragen.
Microdem download
A free GIS application with impressive 3d capabilties. Interface isn't the clearest and unless you have had GIS experience importing data can be confusing.
SourceForge.net: Welcome to SourceForge.net
An excellent open source, freeware and shareware site with thousands of programs.
Download 3K
As above though not quite as exstensive.
WorldBuilder Download
Trial download site for WorldBuilder 3D environment generator. Tutorials available.
Google Earth - Home *
THE online interactive map. The entire world in reasonably high resolution satellite images.
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