Sunday, June 13, 2010

Hypsometric

Map of Europe hand drawn in 1890. Hypsometric shading is used to show the topography. No other labels are provided.

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Plainimetric

This is a street map to the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, DC. There is no relief in the map, only street names and landmarks.
























Mental Map


This is a mental map of Amsterdam drawn by a 41 year old homeless man and is part of an ongoing project in the field of psychogeography. For two weeks they collected mental maps of Amsterdam which were eventually put together to create a global mental map.