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Archive for October 2009

Flickr as a paintbrush

21 October 2009 tagged color, flickr with 41 comments

What color is Harvard? Don’t say something like “white,” smartass. But don’t say “crimson” just yet, either. This being a blog about maps, I of course mean Harvard not as a school but as a geographic entity. What color is the landscape, physical and cultural? When people look around at whatever interests them, what colors […]

The drinking society with a mapping problem

13 October 2009 tagged conference, nacis with 3 comments

I’ve recently returned from Sacramento after attending the 2009 conference of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), and I wish to briefly plug the organization here in case either of my readers is not already familiar with it. If you work with maps, you should join NACIS and go to its meetings. Consider these […]