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Subject: FW: Uk Independent - Maps will always have mileage [Or: OS
versus Google]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:37:35 +0100
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps-L' <[log in to unmask]>, 'A forum for issues related to map &
spatial data librarianship' <[log in to unmask]>
CC: 'Discussion group for map history' <[log in to unmask]>
First: to 'MAPS-L'; second: to 'Lis-maps' (but copied to 'MapHist'):-
The substance of 'The Independent' (UK) internet piece, as per URL
supplied in Tracey P. Lauriault's posting below, differs from the hard
copy version I saw over my early morning coffee (also today, Wed. 14th).
Those with access to the differently-illustrate article 'Mapping the
future' by the same Jerry Brotton in the section 'Independent Life',
spread generously over pp.8-9, will still discover - IMHO - that it's
virtually all an argument about Ordnance Survey [of Great Britain]
versus Google [Earth]. And one colored image - not on the earlier
posting's URL - is of "a globe [sic] from Google Earth" (i.e.
approximately 2/3 of a sphere) centered approximately on Dublin,
Republic of Ireland (not Georgia USA, where I once had a coffee stop en
route to SHD's Annual Meeting in Savannah). It cannot but fail to
incidentally remind some of us of the similar 2/3 of a sphere map to
illustrate the article 'Most of the world is at war' in 'The War Weekly
incorporating 'War Pictorial'' (London), issue no.13, 19 January 1940,
p.397. This map is centered approximately on Batum, and its total extent
is roughly the Andes - Alaska - New Zealand - Cape of Good Hope. (What
amazing trivia can be gleaned from the internet)
The hard copy text's historical background on Magellan et al. makes no
mention of Matteo Ricci SJ, yet the top circular b&w image is of a
northern hemisphere map that I suspect is an inset taken either from the
Ricci 1602 woodcut world map, or from its [1644+] slightly amended
reprint, which was recently a subject on 'MapHist' and on 'MAPS-L'. It
is vaguely referred to here as "A 1602 [sic] with China at its centre
(right)". However, as no credit to this hemispheric map is visible (or
maybe I wasn't yet sufficiently awake) on the hard copy version, and I
omitted to check the [1644+] state in the RGS this afternoon, I leave it
to others to verify the item.
Francis Herbert
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: 14 April 2010 14:15
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Subject: Uk Independent - Maps will always have mileage
I'm forwarding an interesting article about the future of mapping. A
quote:
"Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, estimates that
approximately 30 per cent of all Google searches are "geographical". Its
search engine works in tandem with its geospatial application to order
global knowledge in a completely new way. Rather than classifying things
according to numerical or alphabetical order, Google uses a geographical
order. When we ask Google for information, it is increasingly delivered
to us based on how near it is to us. "
Angie
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Uk Independent - Maps will always have mileage
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:35:01 -0400
From: Tracey P. Lauriault <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: CARTA-L : Canadian Map & GIS Libraries and Archives
<[log in to unmask]>
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/maps-w
ill-always-have-mileage-1943832.html
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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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