Cartography News Roundup


“Today, Google Maps for the iPhone has arrived. It’s free, fast and fantastic.”
Google Maps App for iPhone Goes in the Right Direction-Review

“You can get 98% of stuff on maps right, and people who use it will remember the 2% you got wrong until they die.”
While Apple Regroups, Google Offers a Maps App
Reactions on quote from twitter include @atanas “Isn’t that true about everything?” and @whisperangela “In most cases, we did nine things right, and one thing wrong, the whole credibility was ruined. I call it: 9 + 1 = 0.”

“The approaches presented here offer landscape architecture a long-overdue reconciliation of the depiction of the ground as a site of design with the geological and geographic, the regional and the territorial.”
Current exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

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