{"id":641,"date":"2009-11-18T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2009-11-17T22:54:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T03:54:55","slug":"dinosaur-battles-to-the-north-seek-alternate-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/dinosaur-battles-to-the-north-seek-alternate-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur battles to the north. Seek alternate routes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only twenty more miles to Cleveland, where OH MY GOD A TRICERATOPS IS FIGHTING A T-REX!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/dino_northarrow.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaurs fighting in a compass rose\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The compass rose or north arrow on a map is an easy place for a cartographer to leave his or her artistic mark on a map, in the GIS era usually to laughable effect. Or for a more corporate production, it&#8217;s a good place to stick a logo. In the days when American road travel was a bit more of an exciting adventure than it is now, gas stations distributed some heavily-branded highway maps encouraging travel powered by their fuel. As I browsed through a few of these in my possession (acquired from items discarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geography.wisc.edu\/maplib\/\">Arthur Robinson Map Library<\/a> over a couple of years), this lovely north arrow from a c. 1937 Sinclair road map of Ohio stood out as particularly amusing.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this was ever Sinclair Oil&#8217;s actual logo\u2014rather, it&#8217;s long been the still-familiar green apatosaurus\u2014but the company has associated itself with dinosaur imagery in general. The map, by the way, was made by Rand McNally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only twenty more miles to Cleveland, where OH MY GOD A TRICERATOPS IS FIGHTING A T-REX! The compass rose or north arrow on a map is an easy place for a cartographer to leave his or her artistic mark on a map, in the GIS era usually to laughable effect. Or for a more corporate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[63,61,62],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesome-maps","tag-dinosaurs","tag-north-arrow","tag-old-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}