[Geowanking] 1:1 scale mapping

[R E Sieber]

They’re also referred to as anthropomorphic maps. Got this one from one 
of my listservs"

 >AM are exactly scale 1:1. Anthropomorphic (body-part) maps were 
generated by configuring the virtual body of a god or goddess over the 
area to be mapped. Areas under each part of that body received the name 
of that part. These maps equate geography with (human) anatomy to 
produce place names that indicate where they are located relative to 
other places on the same map.

 >Examples of these maps include "Old Man" Napi (creator of the 
Blackfoot indians) and his "Old Woman" wife in Alberta, Canada; Hermes 
centered at Mt. Hermon (now on the Israeli-Syrian cease-fire line); and 
Aphrodite in north Africa.

Renee


Alan Keown wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Lewis Carrol was, in my opinion, fascinated by the apparent 
> absurdities that Mathematical concepts can generate when partnered 
> with unbridled extrapolation (or interpolation).
>
> As a reality check I would say that
>
> § “we” are not really creating maps; we make “models” of the real 
> world that can be presented as maps.
>
> § it will be a long time before we have anything like general coverage 
> at a “scale” of even 1:1000, let alone 1:1
>
> § “we” will not map everything – leaves on trees, blades of grass, 
> door handles (the list goes on)
>
> Which leads me to the email signature I used to use before adopting 
> the Sylvie and Bruno quote several years ago:
>
> “If I have a 1:1 model of the universe, does that make me God?”
>
> Cheers
>
> AlanK
>
> /“…And then came the grandest idea of all! /
>
> /We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the 
> mile!/
>
> /Have you used it much? I enquired. //
> //It has never been spread out, yet, said Mein Herr: /
>
> /the farmers objected:/
>
> /they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight!/
>
> /So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it 
> does nearly as well…”/
> — Lewis Carroll. /The complete Sylvie and Bruno./ 1893.
>
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> *From:* geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org 
> [mailto:geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org] *On Behalf Of *Mike Liebhold
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:22 AM
> *To:* David Asbury
> *Cc:* geowanking at geowanking.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Geowanking] 1:1 scale mapping
>
> wow thanks to both! this is a trove! 
> http://3stages.org/c/gq.cgi?first=QAMAP
>
> jorge luis borges, lewis carrol, gregory bateson, david foster 
> wallace, ...
>
> the crazy thing is we're building this 1:1 AR map. modern augmented 
> aeality is becoming precisely what lewis carrol said here: " the 
> country itself, as its own map"
>
>
>
>
> On 2/8/10 2:44 PM, David Asbury wrote:
>
> And, of course, the classic:
>
> And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the 
> country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!"
>
> "Have you used it much?" I enquired.
>
> "It has never been spread out, yet," said Mein Herr: "the farmers 
> objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the 
> sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I 
> assure you it does nearly as well.
>
> -- Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893).
>
> Here are a number of other thoughts...
>
> http://3stages.org/c/gq.cgi?first=QAMAP
>
> David
>
> Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote:
>
> Here's a story about 1:1 mapping:
>
> """
> On Exactitude in Science . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography
> attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied
> the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a
> Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and
> the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was
> that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The
> following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of
> Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was
> Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered
> it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the
> West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by
> Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the
> Disciplines of Geography.
>
> Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 
> 1658
>
> From Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew
>
> Hurley Copyright Penguin 1999 .
> """
>
> -B
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mike Liebhold <mnl at well.com> 
> <mailto:mnl at well.com> wrote:
>
> the arrival of viewfinder AR (augmented reality) is opening lots of
> opportunities for near field focal plane maps of very dense local data.
>
> e.g. "show me labels, links, annotations and attributes for things and
> places in my field of view"
>
> is 1:1 scale mapping a reasonable idea?
>
> can anyone here share pointers or stories about 1:1 scale mapping and why
> the idea has generated ridicule in the past?
>
>
> ???
>
>
>
>
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