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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.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Mapping the Holocaust

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The keynote speaker at NACIS 2014 described (along with her students) a recent project to map Holocaust survivors stories, and in so doing ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Commodities and Experts, Part 2

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[Edited for clarity, October 11] It’s respectable—a mark of prestige—to say you are a professional. We still talk about “the professions,...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Commodities and Experts, Part 1

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Hearing Sandeep Jauhar interviewed by Terry Gross yesterday about the changing world of being a physician got me thinking about something t...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Odd Socks

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In high school, some friends formed a group they called something like "The Caffeine Addicts and Silly Walkers Appreciation Society....
Friday, May 16, 2014

The Audience

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We went, my son and I, to see a performance by Zenon Dance Company, our premier local modern company. My wife and son went last spring, and...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Harley essay and map reproduction: followup and posted files

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Amongst the things I have learned the last few months is that crowd-sourcing campaigns, however well-intentioned, do not always result in th...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Harley Essay reproduction

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Many of you are familiar with J.B. Harley's 1987 essay from The Map Collector , "The Map as Biography." It discusses a ...
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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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