My favorite convention. Well, OK, my only real convention most years. I should get out more...
NACIS was great. Lots of good talks (and conversations), lots of food for thought, and of course lots of new cool maps and map software.
The paper went well, I got all sorts of kind words from it and even the critical words were pretty reasonable. A few folks even came up and said they enjoyed the blog, which got me back thinking of pieces for it. Prepare for a little flurry.
A few people asked for copies of the paper, and I said I'd post it here, so... here it is. I'm still not totally happy, especially with the last couple pages. Any thoughts are welcome...
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I'm a cartographer and a Quaker. I think the two are related, and the common threads seem to be a regular theme here. This blog started out exploring what it means to make maps—the ontology of cartography. Then I spent some serious time working on issues surrounding theological diversity among Quakers. Lately it's become even more freeform, though I'm still interested in both these areas.
My other blogs and stuff
Walking the Dog - A daily blog/journal, exploring the ways we keep the weather from affecting us. Begun on the winter solstice 2011, to be wrapped up the same day in 2012.
Measured Words - about the words we casually toss around and what they end up really meaning. Blog on hiatus.
45°NE - A project I abandoned a couple years ago but might take up again someday.
MySpace - Sure, I know it's irrelevant, but it's where I host my musical self for now...
Measured Words - about the words we casually toss around and what they end up really meaning. Blog on hiatus.
45°NE - A project I abandoned a couple years ago but might take up again someday.
MySpace - Sure, I know it's irrelevant, but it's where I host my musical self for now...
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About Me
- natcase
- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- In May of 2013, my wife Ingrid and I formed INCase, LLC to support our professional work of writing and design, and I left Hedberg Maps after 22 years as head of production. In my non-professional life I am a member of Twin Cities Friends Meeting and Laughing Waters Preparative Meeting, and Ramsey's Braggarts morris dance team, and organize sings at Merlins Rest pub in Minneapolis.
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Map Ontology Links and Sources
- "Taking Apart Cartography" (my paper for NACIS 2007)
- "Art Is a Tool: Maps As Pictures" (my paper at AAG 2006)
- The Invention of Art by Larry Shiner: a book I keep coming back to
- "The Search for a Radical Cartography," by Mark Denil, an excellent look at the nature of "mapicity"
- "Cartography is Dead (Thank God!)," a provocative essay by Denis Wood
- "True Grid" by Barry Smith; excellent article on maps and perspective
- "Cartography as an Art and a Science?" by J.B. Krygier, a breakdown of the art-science debate
- "Experiential and Formal Models of Geographic Space," by David M. Mark and Andrew U. Frank, an examination of the idea of geographic space
- "Ontology is Overrated" - a thought-provoking article on Google-style vs Yahoo-style cataloguing
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