Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Wading through the web
Well having dutifully settled down to do some homework and find a blog I appreciated, I was sorely disappointed at first. I at first began simply by looking at googles "next blog" and this wasn't worth the time it took to press the next key. I was literally wading through the morass of the web. I seemed to find rather a lot of dross about car racing, hougang mall and harbour toys, and horror of horrors, a blog on streetfighing. I decided I needed to find a different solution and searched for blogs on cartography and maps. This lead to some unexpected delights - first one run by the BL on mapping London which accompanied an exhibition which to my sorrow I had missed, but the blog and the virtual exhibition lived on. (http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/londoninmaps/cartography/index.html) Then came my true delight - a blog on strange maps. (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/321-the-forgotten-kingdom-of-araucania-patagonia/)Who knew about mapping tea-drinking? Has anyone else come across a map of the Forgotten Kingdom of Araucania-Patagonia? This site though perhaps less useful than the Chicago Blog on Cartography and Geography archives provided and indeed provides a lot of fun. I can travel through the map and web into some of the weirder cartographic images of our world.
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Some of the map sites sound good - is there a good example worth us looking at too?
They do sound really interesting - can you pass on the links?
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