09 July 2008

London Map Fair : (beware of maps contrived to lead you astray) 'A great map is much more than a navigation tool. Actually, a great map is rarely a navigation tool. It is a political and philosophical statement. What it displays, and especially what it conceals, tells us far more about the values of those who created it than about the terrain it allegedly charts.'

Search for the ultimate information management tool leads to visual mapping solution

(Flash) Collage Zoom Interface

(Video) Walmart spreading like a virus

'Urban cartography ? for global shopping experts'

(Star) Map of the Week

(French map) Cliquez ici pour voir la carte Jerusalem

Early prototype : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/TheGreatIdeas.htm

'...lines the gallery with a same-size simulacrum of itself...' : Via

Blogrolled here : http://herdeirodocaos.wordpress.com/?s=map

"The one thing that can hold someone’s attention the longest on a single sheet of paper is a map." - maps@mappery.com
"If I don’t have many things to do, I am lost.” - Umberto Eco
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh (scribed in one of hundreds of letters to his brother Theo)

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