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Pictorial Maps
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York 
 "Get Lost is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary. ... Get Lost brings together fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future." Browse by artist. From the New Museum, New York. http://www.newmuseum.org/assets/general/getlost/ Topics: Maps, U.S. Maps Last updated Jan 15, 2008 Going Underground
This February 2006 map plots "the history of 20th century music on the London Underground map devised by Harry Beck in 1933." Lines are renamed for music genres such as soul, reggae, pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and classical. Includes an article explaining how the map was plotted and many reader comments. From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/02/03/going_underground.html Topics: Maps, Maps by Place Last updated Mar 28, 2006 A Literary Map of Manhattan
This interactive map shows some of the places "where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked and looked at ducks." View the locations on the map, or browse by author or title. Some of the almost 100 book titles represented include "The Invisible Man," "Harriet the Spy," "The Great Gatsby," and "James and the Giant Peach." From a 2005 New York Times Book Review feature. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/06/05/books/20050605_BOOKMAP_GRAPHIC.html Topics: Maps, U.S. Maps Last updated Mar 28, 2006 Zoom Into Maps: Unusual Maps
Features images of caricature maps from the 1868 book "Geographical Fun" and other humorous and fictitious maps, such as the Kingdom of France (1796) represented in the form of a ship and the "Gerry-Mander" (Essex County, Massachusetts in the form of a salamander). From a Library of Congress educational feature on maps. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/maps/unusual.html Topics: Maps Last updated Sep 17, 2009 |
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