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Biggest GPS Self Portrait in the World

55 days,over 100,000 km and 62 countries later…

“Artist Erik Nordenankar says he has created the Biggest Drawing In The World. He says he gave DHL a case and travel instructions for a 55-day journey, then traced the route using GPS. The route was more than 100,000km long and went through 62 countries. The result was a self-portrait.”

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Cassini’s imaging team has released an atlas of Saturn’s moon Dione. The atlas is available as a set of 15 PDF files at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Via Bad Astronomy and Universe Today.

This is the third atlas of a Saturnian moon that has been released by the Cassini project; similar atlases exist for Enceladus and Phoebe.

Previously: A Map of Dione and a Planetary Gazetteer.

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BibliOdyssey provides another example of what I suppose is called a caricature map: these are maps where representative caricatures are twisted into the shapes of the countries they are meant to represent. This one comes from Japan circa 1914.

In this entry, peacay also provides links to earlier posts of his that deal with these maps, and there turn out to be quite a few of them (such as this one). Checking my own archives, I note that I have a few as well: Streets of London; The Illustrated Enemy; Angling in Troubled Waters. This certainly appears to have been a popular form of illustration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Hilarity ensues when road painters marking no-parking areas on a road in Waltham Abbey, Essex, paint the wrong side of the road because they read the map upside down. (This is not the upside-down map the Australians had in mind.) Via All Points Blog.

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