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  1. World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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    worldchess.com/news/all/world- <-- shared article
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    [sharing this is NOT an endorsement of this commercial product]
    “World Chess is delighted to announce the release of the first-ever chess map of the world that blends the intricate worlds of chess and geography. This unique cartographic creation, where continents and places are crafted from chess openings with geographical names, promises to be a collector’s delight…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #chess #boardgames #boardgame #history #mapping #mapsasart #gischat #cartography #thematic #geography #chessgame #chessopenings #ancienthistory

  2. Carte Du Tendre [Maps Of Tenderness]
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    utopographie.com/archives/cart <-- shared article
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    "Conventionally the map is a tool which is used to locate oneself, to have certainty and proof, here the map is used to get lost…"
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    “These [tenderness] cards are originally an analogy between the kiss and the separation of the two banks of a river, a game between the distinction of two territories divided by a natural border and the union of the two by the presence of a valley fertile in love.
    Then, from simple trompe-l’oeil comes the requirement to write a place in cartography. Each kiss presents a probable situation of human settlement depending on its geographical environment.
    Finally, the utopographic appetite is what allows a real pictorial research around the pixel, the line, and the color…”
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #maps #cartography #illustration #emotions #art #tenderness #mapsasart #human #humaninteraction #humanconnection

  3. I was 9 years old on my first camping trip to a tiny canyon at the Desatoya Mountains… I hope to visit it again some day.

    My stepdad was sworn to secrecy about The Dens, so don’t tell anyone.

    Mapping the magic places I’ve known…inspired by vintage USGS maps.

    #TheDens #BigDen #Nevada #BigDenCreek #BigDenFalls #EastgateNV #GreatBasin #Pattern #MapArt #MapsAsArt #BasinRange #Hwy50 #CarrollPass #CarrollSummit #Desatoya #DesatoyaMountains #Paiute #Shoshone #ShoshoneLand #ConspiracyOfCartographers

  4. There's this trend where people use Blender to put high quality hill shades on top of old #maps and it is both gorgeous and an incredibly hacky and low effort way to get free IP to sell. Anyone else have thoughts? #cartography #mapsasart

  5. Back in the 90s, I knew someone whose stepfather owned 850 acres outside of Napa. The property included the ruins of Napa Soda Springs, a Victorian-era resort.

    I saw that he recently sold the property to Restoration Hardware.

    Here is my USGS-inspired map of the area... a map of a magical place I've known.

    #NapaSodaSprings #SodaCreek #SodaCanyon #Napa #NapaValley #WhiteRockVineyards #MapArt #MagicalPlaces #Geomancy #MapsAsArt #Ruins #MineralSprings #VictorianEra #conspiracyofcartographers

  6. Over 450 miles upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi River, Memphis will see salt water when all the ice caps have melted.

    This #retrofuture map is based on a 1927 #USGS quad with 66m of sea level rise added, the highest level predicted by the #IPCC.

    #MississippiRiver #MemphisTN #Tennessee #Arkansas #mapArt #MapsAsArt #steampunk #climateArson #solarpunk #oilAndGasIndustry #seaLevelRise #seaLevelRiseMaps #climateChange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateArt #conspiracyOfCartographers