A series of maps featured in Look At The World: The Fortune Atlas Of World Strategy (1943) by renowned US cartographer Richard Edes Harrison – skillfully hand drawn views of the globe (the precursors to modern satellite images) for the ‘air age’.
World War 2 Led To A Revolution In Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy (New Republic)
View Dereliction – master in a larger map
Put together by @eoinomahony, @janeruffino, @strongthomas, @Neidi and @CiaranStaunton, the above map contains the locations, pictures and descriptions of various derelict building around Dublin. There’s a heavy skew towards the northside.
Anyone feel like doing a similar map of Cork, Galway or Limerick?
Right so.
[via Richard Cantwell]
It’s slightly disappointing to learn that this video has been speeded up to 4x, but still very satisfying to watch the relentless precision laser-etching of part of a map of Atlanta, Georgia.
Here’s a longer video of a map of San Francisco being etched by the same machine.
