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Subject:        Re: : schematic interstate map
Date:   Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:38:30 -0800
From:   Brian Bach <[log in to unmask]>
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I don't think the artist (in this case, one who specializes in graphics)
was attempting cartographic exactitude so much as achieving an
interesting image. Egads, Ellensburg's missing at the junction of I-90
and I-82! As a map, it's full of flaws (e.g. the proportional distance
between St Louis and Kansas City, as compared to various other
point-to-point distances - particularly in the west), but as an image,
it is attention-getting. The artist has to determine what the audience
is going to be. In a gallery people might fawn over it. In a map store,
it might end up as a dartboard. On the net, it gets debated. The artist
smiles.


Brian P. Bach
Documents/Maps
Brooks Library
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
USA
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Subject:        Re: schematic interstate map
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:06:34 -0600
From:   Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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The masterpiece of simplification simplified a whole lot of interstates
and nodes out of existence. Even if you eliminate the 3-digit spur and
bypass routes, it ignores I-94 between Minneapolis and Chicago and
altogether ignores I-29 and I-43. All of Wisconsin thus gets ignores.
See the comments posted at the original site
(http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=424) for further
roads left out and other errors.

 It's a cool idea, tough to execute.

Nat Case
Hedberg Maps


> BRIAN BACK WROTE:


> A masterpiece of simplification! I like it!
>
> Harry Beck's original schematic map for the London Underground (early
> 1930s) set the trend for every subsequent attempt to chart a
> transportation matrix in the world. From Oslo to Calcutta, the
graphics
> are almost universal today. Even depictions of the Paris Metro routes
> have been pretty much 'Beck-ized'.
> I liken this process in schematic maps to Cubism in painting: a
> distillation of essentials; reality has been altered and stylized, but
> it all makes sense.
> The triumph of Modernism!
>
>
> Brian P. Bach
> Documents/Maps
> Brooks Library
> Central Washington University
> 400 E. University Way
> Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
> USA
> [log in to unmask]
>
http://www.amazon.com/Calcuttas-Edifice-Buildings-Great-City/dp/8129104156
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Fwd: schematic interstate map
> Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:49:11 -0500
> From:   s hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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>
> Thought the MAPS-L folks might like this one...
>
> ---sue h
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *s hawkins* < [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Date: Feb 8, 2007 10:47 AM
> Subject: schematic interstate map
> http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/07/interstate_map_laid_.html
>
> --
> Susan A Hawkins
> Cartographer, JIMAPCO
> 2095 Route 9
> Round Lake NY 12151
> 518-899-5091

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