The third post is about maps personal cartography and my (fr) “géomatique” attempts with geodata. I’ll explore a data centred “map”, generated “automatically” with spatial data infrastructure. Instead of a “normal” hand drawn map (see the map of the 19th arrondissement of Paris below), or a map with a particular boundary with labels (see the …
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Spatial Lens (part 2)
Maps permit you “…to write the subjective back into the supposedly objective, to take something that’s meant to be neutral, and make it personal again.” Gerald Marx quoted in https://currencynews.co.za/art-of-the-week-gerhard-marxs-landscape-would-be-the-wrong-word/ Maps (see part 1) are more than the distance between places or way to find something. They are also are a vehicles for stories. Making …
Spatial Lens
Maps are the loveliest way for us to see complicated geodata. “Geomatics is the study of methods and technologies used to collect, distribute, analyse and present geographical, and spatial data, both natural and human-made”. https://www.westerncape.gov.za/infrastructure/become-geomatics-professional There are geomaticians with pen and paper (look out for Peter Slingsby ‘s routes and paths in the Drakensberg and …