Maps (collectives, blogs):
Counter Cartographies Collective maps
Institute for Applied Autonomy
Interesting maps (some radical, some just cool design):
- TheyRule.net
- MigMap: A Virtual Cartography of European Migration Policies
- Ebb and Flow at the Box Office
- How Americans Spend Their Money
- The Internet’s Undersea World
- Hamburg City Transit Networks
Lists of links on other sites:
Counter Cartographies Collective’s links
RadicalCartography.net’s resources
Mapping Software:
Color Brewer – an online tool to help people select good colors schemes for maps
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.