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30 Days – Day #6: Maps

December 6th, 2009 No Comments

Well, today’s topic is “something that tickles your fancy”, and what tickles my fancy this morning is maps. We’ll start with a quote that was very nearly the quote I used yesterday, and is something that I willl probably have tattooed on myself at some point in the not-too-distant future. “The map is not the [...]

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New Maps Of People

December 18th, 2006 No Comments

I spent a few hours this afternoon at the “London: A Life In Maps” exhibition at the British Library. Fascinating stuff, and I thoroughly recommend it. It’s a brilliant way to look at the history of London. It’s actually a slightly broader thing than it sounds, starting as it does with the earliest known depictions [...]

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