Category: Map Project
Map Reading
“The joy of map reading has been swallowed whole into the maw of GPS technology.” Simon Winchester in Knowing What We Know Whatever happened to Gas Station Maps or in LA the Thomas Guide? On the o... Read More
Words Seldom Seen: Provenance
Provenance Noun: A record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity. Also the place of origin or the earliest known history of something. Example: “The provena... Read MoreImagined Borders Update
On Friday night November 1 I went down to ASU to see the reopening of the Imagined Borders map exhibit at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. It was nice to see many old fri... Read MoreMaps Redeux
I was a map collector. In 2012 I donated the collection to The School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Every once in a while they ask me to come down and talk about the maps and I... Read More
Good Roads
In September 2015 I started a discovery project with an almost 100 year old map of Pasadena. At the time I called it One City One Map Life intervened, progress was slow, but I pushed slowly forward an... Read More