Musings on Maps
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Daniel Brownstein blogs about data visualisation, with a focus on mapping techniques
Musings on Maps
2M ago
The war around Gaza is not for territory, but rather for the destruction of the presence of a terror network that has entrenched its power base deep underground. In many case, deeper than thought. While Israel has been pretty clear about ..read more
Musings on Maps
5M ago
The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. A remainder of Palestinian settlement, not so much an ..read more
Musings on Maps
6M ago
Attending New Year’s service in an Oxford Orthodox synagogue, I paused when the ritual prayer book I held–a Machzor-moved smoothly from prayers to George VI (it was an old one) to prayers for the Israel Defense Forces. The rabbi, who ..read more
Musings on Maps
8M ago
With global ocean surface temperatures shot way off the charts by mid-March, beyond forty years satellites have monito”nred sea surface temperatures, we’ve been struggling to map the changes in sea-surface temperatures, both globally and locally, in satisfactory and meaningful ways. The ..read more
Musings on Maps
10M ago
The voyage to the Titanic promoted cartographic fantasies of discovery and exploration, but only in international waters. The maps of legal oversight Stockton Rush avoided demand to be recognized as a creation of globalism, as much as a luxury diversion of the super-rich ..read more
Musings on Maps
10M ago
With frozen glaciers disappearing into the oceans at an unprecedented rate, the rise of an ecotourism of glacier viewing is hardly unexpected. But the rise of new heights of glacial melt that are feared for much of the arctic this ..read more
Musings on Maps
1y ago
The edges of our world may be blue, if we mean the anthropocentric perspective on our atmosphere. But the edges of those densely populated world of the Sargasso Sea are hardly blue, as much as they float in the transparent ..read more
Musings on Maps
1y ago
As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War ..read more
Musings on Maps
2y ago
Any association of planimetric projection with rationality is challenged by the lack of logos in using a simple cartographic overlay to promote Diagalon as a logic for national secession. While drawing authority from open data of USGS as if to ..read more
Musings on Maps
2y ago
“Days of whiplash developments made unmistakable the volatility of a crisis that American officials fear could lead to an assault by one of the world’s most powerful militaries against Ukraine,” Europe’s second-biggest country, a development that Europeans never thought they ..read more