Tag: cartography
Denis Wood is an obscure cartographer who approaches mapmaking as a form of abstract art — “the map as poem.” A new documentary, Unmappable, hopes to bring a greater spotlight to Wood’s work while dealing with the uncomfortable fact that Wood is a registered sex offender. Predominantly working in his own neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood […]
Having already pinpointed the happiest intersection in Manhattan at 7th and 77th (near Hayden Planetarium), the applied mathematicians at Computational Story Lab are expanding their scope in an effort to map out the existential condition of the entire country. Unlike art cartographer Eric Fischer who used geotag data of tweets to map density of twitter […]
