Mapmaking: Starbase 20?
Oct. 26th, 2023 10:42 pmSo I was looking at maps of the FASA-Trek roleplaying game as well as Memory Beta entries today while I job-searched. Had a thought about where Starbase 20 might be in a map that tries to fit FASA's Triangle region into a largely-Mandel-compliant design...
https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-26-at-7-21-31-PM-990589585
https://www.deviantart.com/dewline-ottawa/art/Screen-Shot-2023-10-26-at-7-21-31-PM-990589585
Maps: Updating the "Short Air Hops" Map
Mar. 26th, 2023 09:16 amDoes anyone remember any scheduled short-run connections that I should be adding to this one?
Yes, I'm switching over to Affinity Designer or Inkscape from Adobe CS4 from here onwards.
Yes, I'm switching over to Affinity Designer or Inkscape from Adobe CS4 from here onwards.
Maps: Projected Sea Level Rise?
Mar. 21st, 2023 02:11 pmWhat's your "most credibly sourced" maps for such concerns these days?
This is still a work in progress. I am not happy with legibiity of the place names, not yet. I've switched most of the labelling over to Helvetica for now, pending a decision on what to switch the labels to.
If you know of any communities and connections that I should add to this map, please tell me!
If you know of any communities and connections that I should add to this map, please tell me!
This is part of a map I've been designing with help from assets from Maptorian. I was inspired by a map in the old Dent's Canadian School Atlas devoted to Canadian airline connections across the country, as well as by a recent job interview for a graphic design position.
I'm making this with Adobe Illustrator CS4, in case you're wondering.
I'm making this with Adobe Illustrator CS4, in case you're wondering.
Books: The Atlas of Imagined Places
Jul. 25th, 2022 10:19 pmI gave myself an indulgence on the weekend: The Atlas of Imagined Places.
Five thousand or so fictional places, and the author and cartographer putting this book together tried to figure out where they'd all be. Don't even try to figure out how to string together the backstories of how all these places from different fictional universes could co-exist. Just enjoy and debate the placements. I will.
Five thousand or so fictional places, and the author and cartographer putting this book together tried to figure out where they'd all be. Don't even try to figure out how to string together the backstories of how all these places from different fictional universes could co-exist. Just enjoy and debate the placements. I will.
Okay, Universe Publishing - a division of Rizzoli International - has licensed the rights to publish calendars inspired by the visual history of Star Trek. Currently, they publish calendars drawing upon TOS, TNG, DSC and PIC as well as a "Star Trek Cats" calendar, dressing assorted actual cats up in Trekkish garb, and the "Ships of the Line" calendar, which depict visuals of the various ships of the several series, as well as designs meant to co-exist in that universe with the "canonical" designs.
I'd like to suggest to the people running Rizzoli one more idea for that line of calendars: please take a cue from Star Trek: Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel and company, and Star Trek: Stellar Cartography by Larry Nemecek and assorted artists (incl. the aforementioned Mandel), and launch a calendar series that can fill in some of the gaps left by those two volumes.
I am unsure as to whether or not to list what topics I'd want the artists commissioned to work on the proposed calendar to address, as I expect I'd be going into spoiler territory re: series being actively produced in Toronto, Los Angeles, Vancouver and elsewhere at the moment. If you're interested enough to name them yourselves in the comments below, however...?
I'd like to suggest to the people running Rizzoli one more idea for that line of calendars: please take a cue from Star Trek: Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel and company, and Star Trek: Stellar Cartography by Larry Nemecek and assorted artists (incl. the aforementioned Mandel), and launch a calendar series that can fill in some of the gaps left by those two volumes.
I am unsure as to whether or not to list what topics I'd want the artists commissioned to work on the proposed calendar to address, as I expect I'd be going into spoiler territory re: series being actively produced in Toronto, Los Angeles, Vancouver and elsewhere at the moment. If you're interested enough to name them yourselves in the comments below, however...?
Emergencies and Polarization
Nov. 14th, 2021 09:43 pmA friend pointed out this article in The Daily Beast tonight.
Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.
I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.
Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."
Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)
All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.
(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)
Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.
I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.
Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."
Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)
All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.
(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)
Font Names and Maps
Jun. 18th, 2021 02:51 pmSo I'm reading this one at the moment:
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/united-fonts-of-america
It's a commentary about a map detailing places across the USA that have had fonts - or knockoffs of better-known fonts, more likely - named after them. Said map being authored by one Andy Murdock, co-founder of the Statesider newsletter.
Getting to my point: I'm now wondering how many fonts are named for Canadian places. I know a guy who's had a habit of naming some of his fonts after places across Canada, Ray Larabie. You may remember my past recommendations of his Typodermic-brand fonts here in this blog.
Fonts named for places like Arnprior, for one example. Rimouski, for another. Athabasca for a third. And so on...
So, where's our font-name map of Canada?
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/united-fonts-of-america
It's a commentary about a map detailing places across the USA that have had fonts - or knockoffs of better-known fonts, more likely - named after them. Said map being authored by one Andy Murdock, co-founder of the Statesider newsletter.
Getting to my point: I'm now wondering how many fonts are named for Canadian places. I know a guy who's had a habit of naming some of his fonts after places across Canada, Ray Larabie. You may remember my past recommendations of his Typodermic-brand fonts here in this blog.
Fonts named for places like Arnprior, for one example. Rimouski, for another. Athabasca for a third. And so on...
So, where's our font-name map of Canada?
From Yonah Freemark of The Transport Politic:
https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/1377390375854219265
The map attached explains one more positive thing that can be done to slow down or stop climate damage, improve the international economy, and generally make life easier for more people.
https://twitter.com/yfreemark/status/1377390375854219265
The map attached explains one more positive thing that can be done to slow down or stop climate damage, improve the international economy, and generally make life easier for more people.
Books I'm Trying to Read - Mid-March 2021
Mar. 16th, 2021 07:35 pmI make no guarantee as to whether I'll be able to finish reading all of these, and several are loans from the local library.
- As I Walked About - A Collection of Walking Columns from the Ottawa Citizen - Phil Jenkins
- Star Trek: Picard - The Dark Veil - James Swallow
- The Information - James Gleick
- Glimpses of Cumberland Township - For the Honour of Our Ancestors - Cumberland Township Historical Society
- In Defense of Housing - David Madden and Peter Marcuse
- Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus - Douglas Rushkoff
- Cartographic Grounds - Projecting the Landscape Imaginary - Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim
- Thunderbird - Jack McDevitt
- Tracing The History of Your House in Ottawa - City of Ottawa Archives
- Packaged Toronto - A Collection of the City's Historic Design - Matthew Blackett, Wayne Reeves and Alexandra Avdichuk
Starships and Railroads
Jan. 20th, 2021 08:25 pmSeemed like a good mix of reading material while I had supper tonight.
MAPS/BOOKS: The Quest for Street Atlases
Jan. 4th, 2021 01:55 pmIf you're willing to share: which street atlas brand would you recommend as best for your part of whatever country you call home?
More good stuff from Kevin Jardine.
Stars with planets are green-circled with numbers of known planets where known. And some extra stuff thrown in that we didn't know we needed to chart...
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1337901467160743939
Stars with planets are green-circled with numbers of known planets where known. And some extra stuff thrown in that we didn't know we needed to chart...
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1337901467160743939
SPACE/MAPS: More GAIA-Inspired Goodness...
Dec. 3rd, 2020 03:58 pm...from Kevin Jardine at GalaxyMap.org via his Twitter feed!
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1334455740367560707
Maybe useful to some of you?
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1334455740367560707
Maybe useful to some of you?
MAPS: Street Atlases I've Come to Value
Nov. 14th, 2020 08:54 amIt doesn't seem right to use the verb "love" here. But these are reference books I've gotten to enjoy looking at, even though I don't use them in the context their publishers intended for them.
Hagstrom New York City Five Boroughs, 1990 Edition.
MapArt Publishing Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas, 2007 Edition.
I'll add the images for the front covers ASAP, okay? Then, I'll try to explain these choices.
Hagstrom New York City Five Boroughs, 1990 Edition.
MapArt Publishing Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas, 2007 Edition.
I'll add the images for the front covers ASAP, okay? Then, I'll try to explain these choices.
Fighting with Apple Photos to export pix of covers of 39 issues of Carto - le Monde en Cartes, a French-language magazine using maps heavily to explain then-current affairs at the time of publication. I'm looking for new homes for those too now. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
duncan_mac has expressed an interest, but I don't see how he's alone in having such interests. Here's the Flickr album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157716600770592
Sorry I missed yesterday.
duncan_mac has expressed an interest, but I don't see how he's alone in having such interests. Here's the Flickr albumhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157716600770592
Sorry I missed yesterday.
