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May 22, 2010 17:21:56 GMT
Post by auntieannie on May 22, 2010 17:21:56 GMT
what a marvellous thread. And what an artist you are, Fumobici! Exquisite is the word.
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May 22, 2010 17:30:30 GMT
Post by fumobici on May 22, 2010 17:30:30 GMT
Where do you copy the globe maps from? Are they dated? First you guys are too nice, but thank you. The globes have usually been based on specific historic maps and when they are I provide the date and map with the paperwork. I do fewer of these though now and more that are done in a particular style from a period rather than being based on any particular specific map. I can do these without referring to any reference material at this point.
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Nov 19, 2010 23:20:24 GMT
Post by mich64 on Nov 19, 2010 23:20:24 GMT
Bix, thank you so much for bringing this thread to my attention. I am going to be going through every link tonight!
Fumobici how remarkable your work is! Very talented.
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Mar 14, 2011 18:51:42 GMT
Post by onlymark on Mar 14, 2011 18:51:42 GMT
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Feb 25, 2012 18:58:09 GMT
Post by frenchmystiquetour on Feb 25, 2012 18:58:09 GMT
fumo - I am speechless. That is one of the most unique talents I have ever come across. Do you make any significant income from this and could you make this a career, or do you want to?
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Feb 26, 2012 1:26:45 GMT
Post by fumobici on Feb 26, 2012 1:26:45 GMT
I would honestly rate the income as insignificant, but I make do ;D Career seems a bit grandiose as well. It does pay the bills.
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Mar 8, 2012 6:17:47 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2012 6:17:47 GMT
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Mar 9, 2012 18:04:03 GMT
Post by Kimby on Mar 9, 2012 18:04:03 GMT
Ah, but she should have had the tattoos done in reverse, since she'll be using a mirror to look at them!
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Jun 19, 2013 15:24:19 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2013 15:24:19 GMT
Here is an interesting article from The Dish entitled "A New Golden Age of Maps". The intro ~ Once the province of big, professional operations like Rand McNally and National Geographic, cartography is becoming a more democratic realm thanks to publicly available data and software tools. Thanks to online marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms, amateurs and hobbyists can now draw up maps with a niche focus ... ~ continues to text rich in fun and informative links. You all are big kids & can click for yourselves, but here are two I found particularly compelling: The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See, which spells out the challenges facing mapmakers, and The Atlas of True Names, which reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's maps ... Middle-earth’s evocative “Midgewater”, “Dead Marshes” and “Mount Doom” are strikingly similar in nature to Europe’s “Swirlwater”, “Darkford” or “Smoky Bay”, as revealed by the Atlas of True Names.
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Jun 19, 2013 19:15:00 GMT
Post by mossie on Jun 19, 2013 19:15:00 GMT
Maps hold a great fascination for me Bixa, and your Atlas of True Names really grips my imagination. Thanks for linking to it.
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Jun 19, 2013 19:43:55 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2013 19:43:55 GMT
I have still not budged one iota from my preference for paper maps over things like GPS or online maps.
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Jun 19, 2013 20:12:49 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2013 20:12:49 GMT
You're welcome, Mossie. I'd really like to have the poster-sized world Atlas of True Names. The prices aren't bad, but it would be nice to know how much the shipping cost would be without having to input my credit card number. The home page would be downright dangerous for me if I lived in the UK! www.mapsonline.co.uk/
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Jun 19, 2013 20:52:39 GMT
Post by htmb on Jun 19, 2013 20:52:39 GMT
For years I had a subscription to National Geographic. I used to remove all the beautiful maps they'd include in various issues, the ones that came folded up and stuck inbetween the pages, and pour over each one from time to time. When I taught little kids I got out all the saved maps and taught lessons on how to explore/read the maps. It really was a lot of fun.
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Jun 21, 2013 4:31:37 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2013 4:31:37 GMT
Does Natl Geo still include those maps? You're right that they were beautiful, also printed on quality paper so they'd last.
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Jun 21, 2013 7:01:22 GMT
Post by bjd on Jun 21, 2013 7:01:22 GMT
We have a boxful of old National Geographic's maps too. I cancelled the subscription about 10 years ago, so don't know whether they still include them or not.
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Jun 21, 2013 16:20:01 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2013 16:20:01 GMT
We had a downstairs half-bath under the stairs, so that the ceiling sloped over the toilet. We put a National Geographic world map on that ceiling and one on the wall next to the toilet so that both sitters and standers could learn something while peeing. I still remember how charmed I was when I found islands off the coast of Chile, one named Más Cerca and one Más Afuera.
I wish I had some now. I'd iron them and have them framed.
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Jun 23, 2013 12:32:02 GMT
Post by nautiker on Jun 23, 2013 12:32:02 GMT
good to know there are so many map lovers on here - does anyone of you cringe, too, when a person (e.g. at an information desk) starts drawing/writing onto a map with a biro? shudder! You all are big kids & can click for yourselves, but here are two I found particularly compelling:(...) and The Atlas of True Names, which reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's maps ...I saw them here in Germany, too, however found some of the translations so much 'forced' that I became doubtful about the others... on another note, some here might appreciate the following: 'What your favourite map projection says about you': xkcd.com/977/
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Jun 23, 2013 15:01:14 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2013 15:01:14 GMT
Some of the English name are a little iffy, too. But the maps are adorable!
;D on the map projection psychology.
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Jun 23, 2013 20:51:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 20:51:02 GMT
good to know there are so many map lovers on here - does anyone of you cringe, too, when a person (e.g. at an information desk) starts drawing/writing onto a map with a biro? shudder! Actually, no, when it comes from a pad with a hundred more identical maps beneath it. But I am incapable of marking a map myself or keeping a map that the information desk person has desecrated in such a way.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:49:18 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2013 15:49:18 GMT
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Aug 16, 2013 16:36:45 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2013 16:36:45 GMT
Portugal and Spain definitely got a head start. I'd like to say bravo to them if it were not for the fact that so many islands were harmed rather than improved by their discovery.
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Aug 17, 2013 14:07:41 GMT
Post by mossie on Aug 17, 2013 14:07:41 GMT
good to know there are so many map lovers on here - does anyone of you cringe, too, when a person (e.g. at an information desk) starts drawing/writing onto a map with a biro? shudder! Sometimes it is necessary to draw on maps
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Aug 18, 2013 22:47:35 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2013 22:47:35 GMT
Mossie, which part is drawn on -- the straight lines south of Port Said? What do they mean? does anyone of you cringe, too, when a person (e.g. at an information desk) starts drawing/writing onto a map with a biro? shudder! Yeah, I hate that. Tourist office personnel do it all the time, even as I try to pull the map away from them. Yes, I know they have a zillion more, but I don't want their scribbles on the map they gave to me. so many islands were harmed rather than improved by their discovery. That is addressed in the linked quote, along with what is meant by "unknown by humans". I am dubious about some of the things on that map. That clump of islands just off the western coast of Africa, for instance -- surely people knew of those.
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Oct 5, 2013 3:06:17 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2013 3:06:17 GMT
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Oct 5, 2013 16:56:33 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2013 16:56:33 GMT
On another subject, I have to admit that I was horrified to discover that it is impossible to buy a map of Brazil in Brazil. Even the largest bookstores have perhaps a grand total of 15 maps for sale, generally a weird mixture of various countries and therefore just leftover maps from previous years. After going to 6 bookstores, the only map I found was of the Amazon, and that was not what I was looking for.
I had discovered the same thing in small towns of the United States last spring. I had enormous difficulty even finding a state map of the state I was in.
I just don't understand how people anywhere could be so stupid as to believe that the internet or a GPS can replace the utility (and the FUN) of spreading out a paper map and examining all the détails.
I will be buying a map of Brazil in France next week because I really want one, but I feel as though I am living in one of the last "map countries" of the world (maybe thanks to Mr. Michelin?) where you can find maps of absolutely anywhere in just about any bookstore. It is absoutely tragic to me that maps have disappeared in other countries.
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Oct 5, 2013 21:40:32 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2013 21:40:32 GMT
That's discouraging. Wonder how long it's been since filling stations in the US stopped carrying maps. Do the state welcome centers still have them? When I moved here in '97 I bought a city map, sealed in plastic. When I opened it, it completely fell apart at all the folds, plus all the "outlying areas", i.e., neighborhoods that had long been considered part of the city, were missing. After reading your post, I'm going to start looking around to check on the availability of practical, up-to-date maps in general. And no way that digital versions can ever replace the big picture aspect nor the sheer beauty of a paper map.
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Oct 5, 2013 22:54:56 GMT
Post by questa on Oct 5, 2013 22:54:56 GMT
Bixa and K2, I LOVE reading maps and have been like this since I was a little girl. That is how I have come to travel to unusual places, looking at strange names and romantic roads.
I can spread out and read a map like a book, poring over the details and evocative images for hours.
In my younger days I was a rally driver/ navigator and we used army ordinance maps where every windmill, barn and side track was marked. To navigate these at speed was exhilarating.
Now my den has 2 walls covered in maps from a city map of Kathmandu to a big Western Pacific one.
I have a question, though...In the Southern hemisphere I can always "feel" which way is north in my body, maybe from the way the light/shadows are. However in the Northern hemisphere I can't, it all feels the same. Does this happen to anyone else?
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Oct 5, 2013 23:37:18 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Oct 5, 2013 23:37:18 GMT
Questa is ............. MapGirl ! proof (using only legs to protect anonymity): Seriously, what an exciting and fun -- & difficult! -- use of the ordinance map. Love the idea of the map covered den. You'll have to wait to hear from others about orientation. I have no natural sense of direction at all. When I'm downtown, I have to find north by a certain set of mountains. When it's dark & I can't see them, I can get turned around very easily.
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Oct 6, 2013 0:18:29 GMT
Post by questa on Oct 6, 2013 0:18:29 GMT
Lovely, Bix, I'll take the ones on the left!
Oz was "discovered" by a master navigator, Capt. James Cook, and he and others (Matthew Flinders etc.) did such excellent charting of our coasts, many of their charts are still relevant today.
Our vast interior was mapped by explorers, some with poor survival skills, right up to the 1950s. I knew 2 such acclaimed explorers who were still alive into the 1980s...a living link with our history lessons. My travels in Oz often followed in the tracks of the early explorers.
There are still unknown areas, but the mining giants are mapping these in search of resources.
Our indigenous people had their own "maps" which were sung as they travelled from place to place. These "song lines" told the route and the history of the country they were passing through and were passed down the generations for about 30,000 years.
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Oct 6, 2013 0:23:57 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2013 0:23:57 GMT
I love maps so much that I have bought maps of countries that I will never visit, just for the joy of imagining a trip to such a place. If they really disappear for the general public, it will be tragic.
In my WC I have a Vietnamese map of all of Indochina (Viêt Nam, Cam Pu Chia and Lao, with bits of Thai Lan and Trung Quôc [China]) which I need to replace because it is getting too old and stained. (No they are not pee splash stains -- there is an air vent right above and rain manages to splash in from time to time, carrying soot with it.)
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