in: Orienteering; Off-Course;
| # Posted 2008-05-09 23:21:00 | |
| unpronunciation: | Sorry that this is somewhat tangential to orienteering, although it does relate to maps, reality and travel, and since there are strangemaps fans and cartographers here...
A while ago I saw a cartogram of the USA that displayed 'distance' as a function of air travel time rather than miles. As you might imagine, it squashed the northeast US bunched up bits of California with it and ballooned out the midwest and Idaho. I want to use it in a talk I'm giving tomorrow (about dialect distances vs geogrphical amongst other things) but I can't find it anywhere. I thought I saw it on strangemaps.wordpress.com but looking through the archives didn't find it. A further question: anyone know a (preferably free) program that'll do this sort of multidimensional cartographic scaling? |
| # Posted 2008-05-09 23:53:54 | |
| bubo: | The website 'visualcomplexity.com' shows a few examples of similar maps:
Japan Travel Time Czechoslovakia Air Route Map (1933) USA Air Traffic This may not be what you´re actually after, but keep looking :) |
| # Posted 2008-05-09 23:56:38 | |
| bubo: | From the same source as above I just found this link:
Time Travel. Just as an added piece of interest this webpage also offers quite a bit of material on orienteering (mostly in Swedish though). ...and more Travel Time Tube Map |
| # Posted 2008-05-10 00:08:40 | |
| bubo: | ...there seems to be a lot of this going on in London with surroundings... |
| # Posted 2008-05-10 00:12:29 | |
| bubo: | ...getting closer?
Non-geographic mapping (Princeton University) more about Travel Time... |
| # Posted 2008-05-10 01:16:46 | |
| peggyd: | As a professional cartographer, trained geographer, and active orienteer, a line from the Princeton U link made me squirm: "The INA believes that geography is becoming increasingly irrelevant..."
Yowza. |
| # Posted 2008-05-10 10:21:08 | |
| unpronunciation: | Thanks Leif! The Japan time travel map is the type of thing I'm after. |
You must be logged in to add a message