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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. World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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    worldchess.com/news/all/world- <-- shared article
    --
    [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

  3. World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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    worldchess.com/news/all/world- <-- shared article
    --
    [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

  4. World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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    worldchess.com/news/all/world- <-- shared article
    --
    [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

  5. World Chess Unveils The First-Ever Chess Map
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    worldchess.com/news/all/world- <-- shared article
    --
    [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…”

  6. 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

  7. 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