fuck yeah cartography!

branchandblaze:

Emma McNally, Cartographic Polyrhythms (2), Graphite/carbon on paper

sugarmeows:

“Newport’s Famous Ten Mile Drive along the Ocean Front”

Vintage map of Newport, Rhode Island

cartographymaps:

John Tallis, 1851, Western Australia, Swan River

slowpilgrim:

An Islamic world map. This is part of an anonymous treatise, entitled The Book of Curiosities, and is unlike any other recorded ancient or medieval map. At the top there is a carefully executed graphic scale, over which the Mountain of the Moon, thought to be the source of the River Nile, has been painted. The land-mass to the lower right is Europe, including a very large Iberian peninsula to its right. At the left-hand margin of the map, a brown land-mass has an inscription outlined in red reading ‘Island of the Jewel, and its mountains encircle it like a basket’. This island, usually interpreted as Indonesia or Formosa, was considered to be the easternmost limit of the inhabitable world. The map also depicts, in the lower left corner, the legendary barrier built by Alexander the Great to keep out Gog and Magog, the mythical enemies of civilization who dwelt in the far north-east of the inhabitable world.

artpause:

Americas Metro Subway Underground Tube Map Canvas Art Print at artpause.com

nagama:

(IdN™ Creators® — Hello Poster Show (Seattle, USA)から)

earthajourney:

Try to look beyond your own horizon from time to time. There are so many more people with different cultures in this whole planet. You are not the only one, and definitely not the superficial one.

zenbruiser:

Circle of Fire

Renga Ramble Map

Anne-Marie Culhane & Paul Conneally

2007

ithacamafia:

Tile Maps, Exchange Place.

raygun-gothic:

Regions of the Known Galaxy [WiP]

‘This is one of the few things I think I can show from the DarkConduit project, which continues apace but in secret; it’s a map of the galaxy, divided up into informal regions in homage to Star Wars. The regions have no relevance to play, but are an aspect of the lore. While the galaxy is actually split into sectors for gameplay reasons, I thought it likely that the game world’s inhabitants would name some of their (rather large) galactic neighbourhoods as well.

Many of these regions are named similarly to constellations, such as The Cradle and The Beacon; others bear more alien names, or names which suggest their makeup, as with The Core and The Furnace.

I’ve marked the map as a work in continuing progress, as while the content is probably sorted, I have yet to add some attractive frames. The legend is looking a little bit plain as well, but I intend to work on some symbols and an overall, decorative theme once the other maps in this series are finished.

The Milky Way painting underlay is by Liam Nicholson.’