Maps

Maps (collectives, blogs):

Counter Cartographies Collective maps

Strange Maps blog

Radical Cartography

Institute for Applied Autonomy

Interesting maps (some radical, some just cool design):

Lists of links on other sites:

Counter Cartographies Collective’s links

RadicalCartography.net’s resources

Mapping Software:

Quantum GIS (open source)

Color Brewer – an online tool to help people select good colors schemes for maps 

One Response to Maps

  1. Poem from the Virginia Quarterly Review last Spring…

    Border Lines

    The world on a map looks like the drawing of a cow
    In a butcher’s shop, all those lines showing
    Where to cut.

    That drawing of the cow is also a jigsaw puzzle,
    Showing just as much how very well
    All the strange parts fit together.

    Which way we look at the drawing
    Makes all the difference.

    We seem to live in a world of maps:
    But in truth we live in a world made
    Not of paper and ink but of people.
    Those lines are our lives. Together,

    Let us turn the map until we see clearly:
    The border is what joins us,
    Not what separates us.

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