Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 
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#NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Geographer:
I Know What I Know
So Tim Walz is a trained geographer and a former high school geography teacher?!
This is the biggest political news for the profession since Prince William got a masters degree in Geography.
Here's Gov Walz giving a talk at the ESRI GIS conference just last month!
https://mediaspace.esri.com/media/1_d2sqkrju
He's totally locked up the pivotal mapmaker demographic.
"At the end of the 18th century, #Spain's official #geographer, #TomásLopez, was asked by the King to create an accurate #map of the kingdom. In an attempt to delegate the herculean labour required, Tomás drew a series of circles, picked the town in the center of each circle, and asked the local priest to answer a questionnaire and draw up a map of their province. The goal was to amalgamate the responses into a single map. But none of these priests were trained in #cartography, and many of them would have had limited access to maps at all. Nonetheless, 500 of them tried. In one map, the entire region is represented simply by a series of letters (“A” for church, “B” for hermitage, “C” for house, “D” for tree, and so on). Another represents the surrounding villages as if they are orbiting planets. In some, the handwriting forms the topographies. In others, descriptive columns of text take center stage, as if the language itself is a landmark. Each priest implicitly reveals how they see the world around them, and the relative importance of its constituent parts: nature or people, religion or trade, architecture or landscape, precision or vibes."
https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/should-this-be-a-map-or-500-maps
Contour lines on the soles of my new shoes.
This #geographer now gets to wear #maps !
Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.
What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn't hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), globes, 1/n
A wild map made in #QGIS appeared from an envelope today. I'm happy to see #FOSS used in research in the private sector as well.
As a #geographer I have to judge the map. It is the law.
The map is surprisingly good for a BW map. I like the slight off-white colour of the water bodies. The textual elements are clearly legible. BUT. The scale bar and north arrow are way too large, and numbers would've sufficed to indicate the various areas. Now some texts make it hard to identify locations.
#JeanMalaurie, #géographe, explorateur du #GrandNord et éditeur, est mort
Agé de 101 ans, Jean Malaurie était jusqu’en 2015 à la tête d’une collection – aujourd’hui encore éditée par #Plon – qui a renouvelé le regard et l’#écriture #anthropologiques : « #Terrehumaine ».
#lemonde
#geographie #geografie #geography #geographie #Geograph #geographer #Géomorphologue #geomorphologie
@geography
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/02/05/jean-malaurie-geographe-explorateur-du-grand-nord-et-editeur-est-mort_6214880_3382.html
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), pioneer #geographer who travelled late #Ming #明 #China and left an enormous oeuvre, comprising almost half a million characters #漢字 and compiled in the Travel Records of Xu Xiake 徐霞客游记. #geography #spatialhistory
The World Map That Introduced Scientific Mapmaking To The Medieval Islamic World (1154 AD)
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https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/the-world-map-that-introduced-scientific-mapmaking-to-the-medieval-islamic-world-1154-ad.html <-- shared technical article
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-bad-medieval-world-map
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #ancientmaps #ancienthistory #alidrisi #atlas #reconstruction #TabulaRogeriana #medieval #islamic #world #global #ceuta #sicily #geography #geographer #cartographer #cartography #granddisk
Also, if you don’t know about #Geographer, you should. This song is just magic.
Welcome new folks! Reminder that I’m a professor of political & creative geography at Université de Genève
(she/her), 
. Currently writing / drawing a book-length comic on borders. Still hoping academic folk & others engage more here, so tooting about work, but also sewing & yodelling (!).
#Academic #Geographer #PoliticalGeography #Borders #CreativeGeography #VisualMethods #Comics #BandeDessinée #HistoryOfGeography #FeministEpistemologies
#AcademicsWithCats #VintageSewingMachines #Quilting
I made my first public Felt #map! #UFO sightings as logged by NUFORC. I added plate tectonics because I am a #geographer.
You can add comments, your own sightings, and polygons/lines.
What other data or map layers might be interesting to add?
https://felt.com/map/UFO-Sightings-rHyBVS6XSoClZBmIj5yVwB?loc=38.4932,-121.7141,9.63z&share=1
Perrin Remonté is a French geographer and photographer who has a following of both informative and leisure maps of which he sells reproductions in his Etsy shop #geographer
Mark Wollschlager
@markwoll
#IT guy, #music lover, #videographer, #photographer, #woodturner, #geographer
WEBSITE
https://goaskmark.com/
#follow #boost #indie
https://tinyurl.com/4mseck7n
Starburst #Bend #Oregon
An #Introduction (two months after I joined but better late than never...). I'm a retired #Librarian and #Geographer living for the past two years on that big island on the West Coast of Canada. I'm a #photographer, casual musician, walker, layabout, cliche (I'm just another #Vancouver retiree moved to #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland ). I love living near the water and I want my little city to transform away from suburbanism and embrace its urban potential.
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), pioneer #geographer who travelled late #Ming #明 #China and left an enormous oeuvre, comprising almost half a million characters #漢字 and compiled in the Travel Records of Xu Xiake 徐霞客游记.
#geography #spatialhistory
Good morning 
In this morning's #Introduction #ConnectionList #FollowFriday #TwitterMigration post, I'm bringing you another list of folx you should consider following - so we more richly and deeply connect the #Fediverse.
@jess is a Staff #SoftwareEngineer in #OpenSource with interests in #web and #testing 
@shirley works in #dataviz and combines #code and #art to make wonder and hope
@alisonmarigold is a #mycologist #scientist
@hackuador does #software, specifically the #functional #fp type
@steveblackburn is a #ComputerScience #professor #academic #researcher who specialises in #GarbageCollection
@afsanehrazi is an Assistant #Professor #researcher #academic at #Drexel and she research #HCI, #privacy and #safety
@jujuliagrace is a #doctor and #activist who is opposing privitisation of the #NHS
Professor @Prof_Klinger is a #geographer and #SupplyChain #researcher
@georgelakoff is #Professor Emeritus at UC #Berkeley in cognitive #linguistics and #philosophy - his Metaphors we Live By is a favourite
That's all for this morning, don't forget to build your own #ConnectionList so we can more closely connect the #Fediverse 
1 month in, my #introduction post:
- #GenX continually surprised how long it's been since the #90s.
- #Geographer: Studied #geography, formerly in #GIS, love good #UrbanDesign
-Avid #cyclist: less cars, more #bikes
-Music listener, #ukulele player
- #Jesus follower #Theology #KoineGreek #Christianity
- #Enneagram5 on a journey discovering that others think (and feel) differently than me and that empathy is important.
- Husband of 1 and father of 3.
- #Kamloops, #BC, #Canada
I just moved to tldr.nettime, so it’s time for an #introduction. I am a social and cultural #geographer working and teaching at #HalleUniversity (Germany). I am interested in the geographies of technology and currently doing research on #OpenStreetMap, political and historical geographies of infrastructure, #countermapping and platform urbanism. Also, I am part of the open-access journal @sub_urban .
#NowPlaying Bot 
Greg Cocks 
