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Author Essay: My submission consists of two interactive maps (accessible at http://graphspace.com/every-line-every-point) generated from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSM is a crowdsourced map of the world, edited collaboratively by hundreds of thousands of volunteers since its founding in 2004. Because the data for OSM is Continue reading →

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Author Essay: As a long time cyclist, I recently realized that the mental map that exists in my mind of San Francisco is different from most (and importantly does not exist in print form).  Many times when asked for directions by a driver, I found myself Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Two experiences inform the creation of the San Francisco Public Art Map. As a San Francisco dog owner, I often walk my terrier at Fort Funston. At the ocean’s edge, by a crumbling concrete structure, are various artworks celebrating dogs. A bas-relief sculpture depicts running greyhounds. A ceramic work shows a Continue reading →

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Author Essay: He is driving and I am sitting next to him, sometimes I reach to his side and put my hand in his, other times he reaches to my side and puts his hand in mine. We roam, we talk, and we look. Holding hands Continue reading →

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Author Essay: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AMP) is an online digital storytelling and mapping project of the San Francisco Tenants Union endeavoring to make visible the ways in which evictions and gentrification target San Francisco Bay Area communities. It seeks to de-isolate Continue reading →

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Author Essay: The site of the proposed Uralkali Residential Complex (URC) is located just east of Berezniki, a mining city of 154,000 in the Perm region of Russia, close to the Ural Mountains. Historically a labor camp, Berezniki sits on vast amounts of potash fertilizer. Due to several sink holes Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Earlier this year, Hanah Weyer approached me to illustrate a map for her book “On The Come Up” which is based on the true story of AnneMarie. AnneMarie is a thirteen-year-old girl struggling with teen pregnancy and her unexpected success as a young actor.

The map is of the isolated neighborhood in Queens, called Far Rockaway, where AnneMarrie grew up. Hannah’s book is about life in Far Rockaway through Continue reading →

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Author Essay: My name is Natasha Mei Ong. I am an eight-year-old student at SF Brightworks School. In our school, we have arcs, which are specific topics that we study on. Within the arc we do a project. This arc was “maps”, and my project I call, Natasha’s Pigeon & Pastry Project, Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Ten years ago I started to map the movement of the body in relationship to built form. As an Architecture student at Yale College, my early investigations started with simply recording the body over time, allowing a landscape to emerge. The line drawing in this mapping is Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Disguised as a visual field guide for a traveller, Bangkok_Hyperreal, is a discipline-specific study and the first of its kind that critically observes the City from both architectural and urban design perspectives. By synthetically combining Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Whether Africa can feed itself is a frequent debate in development policy. Here, I tackle this question at the most basic level by analyzing the continent’s production capacity – that is, all land currently available and suitable for agriculture. I take UN FAO’s study of land suitability Continue reading →

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Author Essay: This map presents data from communities with varying intentions;

• Defense Contractors in Silicon Valley: name, locations and profits –
• Communes in the Santa Clara hills above Silicon Valley between 1960-present: names, locations and dwellings

Thank you Struggle Mountain and to Lenny Siegel, Director of the Center for Public Oversight and the Pacific Studies Center for current and archival data. Continue reading →

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Author Essay: China stands on the cusp of the largest and most important period of urbanization in human history. Despite that, it seems destined to follow models of growth that could derail the entire project of reform and development that the country has followed for Continue reading →

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Author Essay: This is a mapping of the crime reported around the San Francisco Bay Area between September 29th and October 10th, 2012; the crime events were obtained from the Police Department’s databases and spotcrime.com. It takes the geospatial coordinates of the crime from Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Downtown Lowell (Blue), Linocut (ink on paper), 2011.

My map of Lowell, MA clearly demonstrates that I am an artist, an abstract artist to be more precise. I made this print as part of a series of hand painted linocuts based on street maps of places I have lived. Thanks to my semi-nomadic lifestyle, I have a Continue reading →

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Author Essay: The Big Atlas of LA Pools is about the process of mapping and map-making in the contemporary context of big and open data, crowdsourcing, and citizen science. As a “two-person army”, Benedikt Groβ (DE) and Joseph Lee (USA), located and drew over 43,000 pool- and manmade- water boundaries—features which computer vision could not adequately demarcate. Throughout their project, the two exploited the idea of Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Mantras, Acrylic on Hallway, Digital photography, Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, 2013.

Mantras is a map that catalogs the emotional process of preparing to move out of a home with which one has developed a relationship. It is an attempt to make visible both the traces that inhabitants leave on the character of a home and the Continue reading →

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Author Essay: somewhere now, gouache and ink on paper, 2013

Most maps concern data, statistics, and real territories but I map out internal territories – a network of places remembered, mystical spaces, and areas that might have been from a dream.

somewhere now is filled with places that are both in the clouds and moving in the water. Places that are cyclical and eternal but also Continue reading →

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Author Essay: This map is an illustration, a Web adaptation, of a very short story written by Jorge Luis Borges: “On Exactitude in Science” (“Del rigor en la ciencia”). In the story, a fictional scholar tells of an empire’s obsession with cartographic precision and Continue reading →

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Author Essay: In 1943, Richard Buckminster Fuller created the Dymaxion Map for Life Magazine’s March edition.[i] Fuller’s intent was to put forward an alternative to the dominant mode of projecting the globe of the Earth on a flat surface. His idea: unfolding the sphere of Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Tribal kinship networks collide with cybernetic systems; geodesics consort with handicraft aesthetics; digital futures hook up with nomadic pasts in Gordon Ashby’s mapping of the Bay Area countercultural enterprise. Ashby’s poster delineates an interactive network linking specific Continue reading →

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Author Essay:  A map critique of “The World of the Auburn University Rural Studio” designed by Daniel Splaingard, former Rural Studio student and instructor

Romala Sanyal wrote of Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village and Discovery Center in Americus, Georgia. The Center, informally called Continue reading →