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At the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, New York, until April 8, The Map Show, an exhibition featuring several contemporary artists. The New York Times has a review:
The show presents the work of eight artists who make maps of one kind or another. Some use representations of the earth, [...]

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In January, Hitwise reported on the relative market shares of the online map sites. MapQuest continued to lead with more than 50 percent of the market, with Google Maps second at 22 percent, and Yahoo and Microsoft trailing.
But, Hitwise says, Google is making gains, and MapQuest is declining: “A year ago, MapQuest [...]

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“A new golden age of cartography has suddenly dawned, everywhere. We can all be map-makers now, navigating across a landscape of ideas that the cartographers of the past could never have imagined,” writes Ben Macintyre in his Times column. “Where maps once described mountains, forests and rivers, now they depict the contours of [...]

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When electoral boundaries are redrawn in Canada, two things are certain: one, rural areas will lose seats as a result of their declining population and urban areas will concomitantly gain seats; and two, rural representatives will complain mightily about it, bringing up intangible appeals to fairness (e.g., geographic area represented) to counter the [...]

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I suppose a web-based standalone version of Google Sky was inevitable, once the Google Maps API supported it, and now it’s here. Highlights include infrared, microwave and historical-map layers with opacity controls and a series of image collections from space telescopes linked from the bottom. (I should note, as I often do, that [...]

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MapQuest has relaunched its mapping APIs, calling them the MapQuest Platform: Free Edition. I’m not exactly sure how this works: MapQuest has had a free API along with commercial partnerships; I don’t know if this is meant to replace both, or is simply a newer, better iteration of existing free APIs. Also, note [...]

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Mike Pegg notes that despite the fact that it’s been a few months since the Google Maps API supported Moon, Mars and Sky, “we have not been inundated with Google Maps mash-ups that have taken advantage of these new astronomical features.” He gives some examples. As for me, I can see the utility [...]

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Don Young writes to tell us about the Challenger Map’s new website, which means that my old links are now broken. “This is a renewed site from the Challenger Map Foundation updating the status of the map and the further plans to restore the map to it’s former glory, then find it [...]

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The Times has the 10 most bizarre sights in Google Street View; Valleywag has the pictures.

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Baltimore’s Festival of Maps opens Sunday and runs through June 8. One epicentre will be the Walters Art Museum, which will host Maps: Finding Our Place in the World and three other exhibitions, including one on Hubble telescope imagery that just sounds cool. Here’s an editorial from last Saturday’s Baltimore Sun about the [...]

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