CARTOGRAPHY April 2013

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Content

Quotes ...... 2 Merv Godfrey – A Tribute ...... 2 Mapping In the News ...... 4 Crowd Sourcing ...... 15 Resources ...... 20 Cartography - Interactive ...... 29 Handcrafted Maps ...... 30 Mapmakers of Renown ...... 32 Cartographic Essay ...... 34 Cartographic Extras...... 34 Links ...... 35 Feature Maps ...... 36 Conferences ...... 39

Quotes

In the play [Twelfth Night], Maria mocks Malvolio’s appearance, cross-gartered and in yellow stockings as follows: “[...] He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as ’tis.” (Twelfth Night, 3.2.75-9) [The new map is Edward Wright’s map of the world which can be viewed at http://hallnjean.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sea-chart.jpg

Read more: http://www.ukessays.com/essays/english-literature/whose-map-is-it-english-literature-essay.php#ixzz2RBh9DB3M

Merv Godfrey – A Tribute

Merv Godfrey (OAM) Born in Melbourne, Australia on 27 February 1924 Passed away in Melbourne, Australia on 29 March 2013 aged 89 years

Merv was one of the founding members of the Australian Institute of Cartographers and served as honorary treasurer for ten years. He reached the office of Fellow Member in recognition of his contribution to the Institute and to his cartographic achievements.

Merv Godfrey was the originating designer and cartographer of the Melway Street Directory. He trained as a survey draughtsman with the Victorian Lands Department. He served with the RAAF as a radio operator during WW2. Following the war he was employed with the SECV and became involved with various tourist maps during his “out of hours” time. In 2006, Brian Lane, Melway's long-serving marketing manager, describe Mr Godfrey as "a very humble gentleman."

His involvement with Ray Harrison, a publisher, in the mid 1950′s gave him the opportunity to produce the Olympic Games map of Melbourne in 1956. He also was involved with many other tourist and oil company maps.

During the 1950′s Melbourne had several street directories, Morgans, Collins, Robinsons & Universal. Merv could see the shortcomings of these directories and proposed to Ray Harrison the possibility of producing and printing a Melbourne Street Directory. The concept was to produce a multi – coloured high quality directory printed on a good quality paper. Around 1960 Merv met Iven Mackay, who was also interested in the same project, he eventually became Merv’s partner as Ray Harrison died before the project had progressed very far. Merv resigned from the SECV in 1961. They began in earnest the task of producing the new directory. Merv, from his home studio which remained his office until 1985, assumed the role of creating his vision of designing and drawing the highly accurate multi coloured maps. Iven took these maps and drove many thousands of miles in a secondhand old Morris Minor field checking every road and detail.

Iven Mackay passed away in May 1989, 23 years after the first edition was released, and the Godfrey family assumed full ownership of the business.

The Melway philosophy has been to create a high quality product, while keeping operating costs low, resulting in competitive pricing. With this philosophy Melway has been one of the true “cottage industries”, as the map production mainly took place at Merv’s studio with family members helping out.

All the maps for the first edition Melway were pen and ink drawn, larger than final size. All typesetting was hand composed and printed on a hand operated letterpress machine in Merv’s garage. Various members of Merv’s family were press ganged into typesetting (Merv’s wife Barbara) and the printing – there were many thousands of names to be set for the maps. Once the maps were drawn they then had to be photographically reduced to final size. A simple camera was built specifically for this one task. As completion of the mapping task grew near, the hours correspondingly grew greater – often into the early hours.

Early in 1966 all maps were completed and ready for printing. P.C. Grosser Pty. Ltd. of Moorabbin were the printers used for the first five editions. Melway hit the streets in May 1966 at a retail price of $2.50, nearly twice the price of its nearest competition. Melway’s first publicity was by Graham Kennedy on IMT’s New Products. Many sceptics said it would never sell because of the price difference. However, it not only survived but has become the most comprehensive directory in the world. It is more than a street directory and there is no other name to describe it but it is a “Melway”.

Merv together with his partner began the task of looking to the second edition and realised they had made a rod for their own backs in keeping pace with a growing Melbourne and updating every map on an annual program (In 26 years 22 editions were produced). It was during this second edition that Merv noticed the talents of a young cartographer working for the printer P.C. Grosser. He invited him to help with the Melway cartographic work which Merv’s partner would collect from various sources and hand over to Merv for upgrading.

The second edition saw the change over from pen and ink drawing to the then still relatively new technique of scribing and cut and peel masking. These had time saving advantages as it allowed the cartography to be carried out at map size. It also saw the introduction of phototypesetting and photolitho film reproduction for the second and subsequent editions of Melway. To produce the film work for the second edition, Merv converted a cupboard in his studio into a darkroom. Conditions were cramped but the results were to Melway standards. Later a darkroom was added to his studio. In the early years all map film was hand developed. In 1977 Melway bought its first film processor which replaced hand developing. In 1993 PC’s were used to generate the indexes in-house. In 2000 the Melway maps were all generated by computers. In 2001 the film processor was removed and maps and indexes were passed electonically to the printers. Melway first occupied premises in Milton Parade, Malvern in 1967 and moved to larger premises at 25 High Street, Glen Iris in 1972. In 1978 Melway moved to 19 – 21 High Street, Glen Iris. In November 2002 Melway moved to its new premises at 32 Ricketts Road, Mount Waverley, 3149

While the company is larger now it still employs the original philosophies:- ‘to produce a high quality and up to date directory at an affordable cost, and to be far more than just a street directory’.

Edited extract from http://www.melway.com.au/melway-history/

Merv Godfrey will be sadly missed.

Mapping In the News

CSIRO keeps the past in the future with world first 3D mobile mapping project Monday, April 15th 2013

Australian researchers are using a novel mobile laser 3D mapping system called Zebedee to preserve some of the country’s oldest and most culturally significant heritage sites. 13 April 2013 - At the core of the technology, developed by CSIRO's Autonomous Systems Lab in Brisbane, is a laser scanner that swings back and forth on a spring to capture millions of detailed measurements. Zebedee gives researchers the ability to reliably map an environment in 3D by simply walking through it.

Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/csiro-keeps-the-past-in-the-future-with- world-first-3d-mobile-mapping-proje/323082

Spain might limit online mapping By Nerea Rial | April 15, 2013

In order to protect the country from possible terrorist attacks, the Constitutional Commission of the Spanish Congress will discuss on Thursday 18 April a non- legislative proposal made by the Popular Party regarding access to online mapping in the country.

According to the Popular Party (PP), online maps and GPS services can be used for undesirable purposes, such as the organisation of a terrorist attack.

Read more: http://www.neurope.eu/article/spain-might-limit-online-mapping

Mapping The Dangerous Future Of Jerusalem Apr 15, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

In a city where borders mean everything, one stubborn man has made it his mission to record and warn others about changes to the city.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/15/mapping-the-dangerous-future-of- jerusalem.html

Mapping lava tubes in the Galapagos April 8, 2013 by Diana Lutz

A lava tube once filled with red-hot magma flowing down a volcano dwarfs the cavers exploring it. The keyhole profile of this lava tube, on the volcanic island of Santa Cruz. suggests the floor of an upper tube may have collapsed into a lower tube from an earlier eruption. The “rope” handing down into the tube is actually a tree root. The islands have no fresh water, and the plants in the jungle canopy seek water everywhere — or just enough humidity to make it through the dry season.

Read more: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-lava-tubes-galapagos.html

Indoor mapping comes to SA 16 Apr 2013 by Editor

A partnership between mapIT and Micello sees the release this week of indoor maps for venues across South Africa.

Digital mapping company mapIT has announced indoor digital maps for 65 shopping malls and 9 airports in South Africa. The maps are made possible through its partnership with international location services provider Micello, which has 15 000 indoor venue maps worldwide. This data enables enterprises to deploy an extensive array of maps in mobile and desktop applications.

Read more: http://www.gadget.co.za/pebble.asp?relid=6254

Mapping a path to hidden tourism treasures through ‘quirky’ artwork 1:40pm Sunday 14th April 2013

Artist Angela Smyth’s spectacular new artwork, designed to encourage visitors to seek out the hidden treasures of Keighley and surrounding villages, such as Haworth and Cross Hills

Read more: http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/10352493.Mapping_a_path_to_hidden_tourism_treasures_throu gh____quirky____artwork/

Digital Mapping Reveals Social Networks of 18th-Century Travelers April 15, 2013

Through a digital analysis of correspondence from travelers on the famed European "Grand Tour," Stanford classicist Giovanna Ceserani is discovering how international travel fostered cultural and academic trends in the 18th century.

Read more: http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/digital-mapping-reveals-social-networks-of-18th-century- travelers-a63feafa 3D Laser Mapping in Durham Uni link up Friday, April 12, 2013 Nottingham Post

NOTTINGHAM laser-scanning specialist 3D Laser Mapping has embarked on a research project, in partnership with Durham University, after the award of a share of a multi-million pound Government grant.

The project, which aims to develop new models for slope failure monitoring, will be used to improve the safety and operational efficiency of mining companies.

Read more: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/3D-Laser-Mapping-Durham-Uni-link/story-18686080- detail/story.html#ixzz2QbtkDii6

Why Polestar’s indoor GPS Technology – 10 years in the making – is the future of local commerce Apr 15, 2013

A little while ago we announced that Google had rolled out its indoor mapping feature to Google Maps in key Paris areas, like Charles De Gaulle Airport and Forum Les Halles. This came after the initial 2011 roll-out that Google did, starting with indoor mapping in the Mall of America. Now, in the past month, we’ve seen that the space is really heating up, with Apple having purchased WifiSLAM for a reported $20 Million(WSJ) last month, a startup working on Indoor positioning, but having seemingly not even released a product yet. With that in mind, I sat down to talk to Christian Carle, CEO of Polestar, a company founded in 2002 that has been working on GPS technology, and specifically Indoor GPS (or IPS), for over 10 years.

Read more: http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/04/15/why-polestars-indoor-gps-technology-10-years- in-the-making-is-the-future-of-local-commerce/

Australia comes of age in the satellite world Posted By Michele Bannister 2013/04/15 04:56 CDT

On April 9, the current Australian government announced the first formal Australian space policy (pdf). Why? Because Australia doesn't have a national space agency. A national space agency serves as a coordination and clearinghouse department that can manage everything from agreements with other countries to funding for exploration and research. Instead, Australia's space activities have been scattered all over the place.

Read more: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2013/0415-bannister-australia-comes-of- age.html

Scientist tries to unravel mystery of Coral Sea's ghostly island Published: April 15, 2013 By Joel Achenbach — The Washington Post

A research ship cruised through the Coral Sea, east of Australia, bearing down on Sandy Island. The digital scientific databases used by the researchers showed the island to be 15 miles long, north to south, and about three miles wide. Manhattan- size.

But when the ship reached the place where the island should have been, the researchers saw only open ocean. The water was nearly a mile deep. Sandy Island simply wasn't there. Or, it turned out, anywhere. How could an island supposedly discovered in 1876, and appearing on many maps ever since, vanish? Did it sink beneath the waves like the mythical Atlantis? Or was it always a figment of some mariner's imagination?

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2013/04/15/2865432/scientist-tries-to-unravel-mystery.html

Duke scientists assess accidental turtle catching By Lucy Hicks | April 16, 2013 3:29 PM

A team of Duke scientists is pushing the boundaries of knowledge about sea turtles caught by commercial fishing processes.

The study compiled over 1,800 records of sea turtle bycatch, the unintentional snaring of sea animals by fishers, in all life stages from more than 230 sources globally and by three different fishing gears—longline, net and trawl. The study also tallied bycatch impact scores—bycatch rates, mortality, body size and regional fishing effort—rather than just sea turtle mortality and was published in the journal Ecosphere last month. The results may influence regional conservation and research efforts.

Read more: http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/04/16/duke-scientists-assess-accidental- turtle-catching

Scientists Map Swirling Ocean Eddies for Clues to Climate Change By Natalie Wolchover, Simons Science News 04.15.13

In January 2010, a crew of scientists voyaged by ship from the southern tip of Chile into the frigid Antarctic to search for clues to one of the great unknowns of climate change. They planned to crisscross a remote patch of sea near the spot where, a year earlier, another crew had injected a tankful of an inert chemical one mile below the surface. The new crew had seven weeks of funding and good weather to sample the seawater throughout the region and discover where the chemical went.

By mapping its spread over the course of the year, the scientists hoped to disentangle the forces that drive the circulation of the Southern Ocean — one of the most important, but least understood, regulators of Earth’s climate.

Read more: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/oceans/

SAR analysis, data mining & GIS mapping of the Central Mediterranean to document the violations of migrants’ rights & deaths at sea Wednesday, April 10th 2013 By Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani

Read more: http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/sar-analysis-data-mining-gis-mapping-of-the- central-mediterranean-to-d/318916

The First State Laws on Drones By Allie Bohm, Advocacy & Policy Strategist, ACLU at 3:13pm 04/15/2013

On Thursday, Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed into law the first bill in the nation protecting individuals from unfettered surveillance by unmanned aerial vehicles. Virginia enacted the very first drones bill nationwide on April 3. Their bill imposes a two-year moratorium on law enforcement drone use, except in emergencies, in order to give the VA legislature time to put in place legal protections for domestic drone use. On Thursday, Idaho put those legal protections in place.

Read more: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/first-state-laws-drones

Land managers preview new fire mapping website By Carmen Brown Monday, 22 April 2013

Land managers view fire scar maps at Cape Crawford in the Northern Territory (Carmen Brown)

An upgrade to the North Australian Fire Information website, known as NAFI, is nearing the first stage of completion.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/rural/nt/content/201304/s3741960.htm

Mapping While Driving Ruled Illegal in California By Josh Wolford · April 9, 2013

Thanks to a recent court ruling by a California appellate court, it doesn’t matter that you were only checking your smartphone to update Google Maps. That’s because the law, as it currently reads, bans any sort of hands-on use of phones while driving.

Read more: http://www.webpronews.com/mapping-while-driving-ruled-illegal-in-california-2013-04

Could you smell your way around Canterbury? By Joe Bill Monday, April 22, 2013

In a world of sat navs and smart phones, there is little need for an old fashioned map these days, even less so a good sense of direction.

And as far as using your nose to sniff out some good food and drink, it’s unlikely society will resort to going back to the basics.

But a Kent-based academic is using exactly that to map out famous cities, including Edinburgh, Paris, Glasgow and Manchester – and her hometown of Canterbury is next on the list.

Kate McLean

Read more: http://www.kentnews.co.uk/leisure/could_you_smell_your_way_around_canterbury_1_2162009

Smartphone Navigation Apps Slash Device Sales April 22, 2013 by Nathan Eddy eWEEK USA 2013. Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc.

Sales of dedicated navigation devices are being badly squeezed by the growing use of mobile navigation apps

Makers of dedicated navigation devices are feeling the impact of the growing use of personal navigation apps found on many of today’s smartphones and tablets. Indeed, according to a research report from analyst firm Berg Insight, the growing smartphone adoption and broader availability of attractively priced location-based services are key factors for growing usage of mobile navigation apps.

Read more: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/smartphone-navigation-apps-113885

CSIRO technology maps the way of the future April 20, 2013 Julie Power

All in good time: Mike Bosse whizzes through the caves with the Zebedee technology. Photo: Supplied by CSIRO

Government surveyor Oliver Trickett took years in the 1920s to survey a part of the Jenolan Caves that has now been mapped in a few hours using 3D technology.

The Trickett cave model. Photo: Supplied

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/csiro-technology-maps-the-way-of-the-future-20130419- 2i5ka.html#ixzz2RBVHBIOz

Radiation from Korea nuke test? Apr 24, 2013 9:08am

Possible radioactive traces from a North Korean nuclear test in February have been detected for the first time, 1000km away in Japan.

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said it had detected isotopes "consistent with a nuclear fission event", The Japan Times reports. "The ratio of the detected xenon isotopes (xenon-131m and xenon-133) is consistent with a nuclear fission event occurring more than 50 days before the detection," the CTBTO said.

"This coincides very well" with the North Korea’s announced nuclear test on February 12.

The detection at a monitoring station in Japan came 55 days after the explosion, The Japan Times reports.

The group said, however, that the discovery couldn’t help it answer the key question of whether Pyongyang used plutonium or uranium in the blast.

North Korea used plutonium in its 2006 and 2009 tests and any discovery that it used highly enriched uranium for its third test would mark a significant technological step for the impoverished and unpredictable regime.

Read more: http://www.optuszoo.com.au/news/top/news-com-au/radiation-from-korea-nuke- test/929352

Crowd Sourcing

Crowdsource Mapping Tracks Gunfire in D.C. Featured Written by Howard University News Service Saturday, 20 April 2013

Howard University's Journalism Department is working with local news organizations to record reports of gunfire in D.C. neighborhoods.

Using crowdsourcing maps as the primary method of obtaining the information, the project allows residents to participate in identifying when -- and, to a degree -- where firearms are discharged in the city.

Read more: http://washingtoninformer.com/index.php/local/item/13567-crowdsource-mapping-tracks- gunfire-in-dc

Using mapping software, Taos police target graffiti in town Posted: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:00 pm Andrew Oxford

Taos police are using mapping software to build an exhaustive database of graffiti in the area. The town and local partners now plan to use the data in an effort to clean up and combat vandalism

“This is all a community effort,” said Taos Police Chief Ken Koch. “The [geographic information systems] department is taking reports from city employees to put a pin on a map and detect where graffiti is more prominent.”

Read more: http://www.taosnews.com/news/local/article_11914bd0-a84b-11e2-be70- 0019bb2963f4.html

Mapping the Car Crash Near Misses That No One Ever Sees Emily Badger Apr 18, 2013

Every day in New York City, car crashes nearly happen. Cabs barely avoid clipping pedestrians. Cars on poorly signed roads all but careen into each other. A biker, somewhere, veers onto a sidewalk and out of the way of a speeding truck.

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So how do you document events significant for the fact that they almost happened? Transportation Alternatives recently rolled out a web platform, CRASH stories NYC, that invites New Yorkers to map their run-ins and near-misses.

Read more: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/04/mapping-near-misses-car-crashes-no- one-ever-sees/5329/

New cartographers: How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives (Old but relevant article) Posted to Lab Notes I on January 18th, 2012 by Christine McLaren

We see them every day, popping up on our Twitter feeds, filtered through blogs, or even scattered throughout the New York Times: maps portraying not the usual locations or destinations, but data.

From people’s kisses in Toronto, to the concentration of pizza joints in New York, to the number of women who ride bikes, to the likelihood of being killed by a car in any given American city, the list of lenses through which we can now view our cities and neighborhoods goes on, thanks to data-mapping geeks.

“The map user has now become the map creator,” is how Fraser Taylor put it to me in an interview.

Read more: http://blog.bmwguggenheimlab.org/2012/01/the-new-cartographers-how-citizen- mapmakers-are-changing-the-story-of-our-lives/

Twitter Users Map of London

Read more: http://twitter.mappinglondon.co.uk/

As Mapping Costs Rise, Waze’s Volunteer Army Will Give It an Edge (Video) April 15, 2013 at 1:09 pm PT

Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that the crowdsourced mapping company is going to have some key advantages versus much bigger Google as consumers become increasingly more demanding about the quality and accuracy of their mobile mapping applications.

Read more: http://allthingsd.com/20130415/as-mapping-costs-rise-wazes-volunteer-army-will-give-it- an-edge/

Crooks and grafters beware: Tunisia's crowd mapping corruption Published April 21st, 2013 - 11:33 GMT

Tunisia's "I Watch" organisation on Saturday (April 13th) launched a new online "crowd-map" for reporting cases of corruption.

The name chosen for the site is "Billkamcha", a slang term for a person "caught in the act". Just 48 hours after the site went live, it already collected 7,000 supporters.

"This interactive website is designed to enable the victims of corruption to immediately report what happened to them whether this corruption is financial, administrative or in the form of favouritism," I-Watch Tunisia President Achraf Aouadi explained at the event launch.

Read more: http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/tunisia-corruption-website-486104

UK finally gets access to Google's Map Maker editing tool By Sharif Sakr posted Apr 11th, 2013 at 3:03 AM

Those red pins look almost like little hearts, revealing which countries have been showered with the affection of Google's crowdsourced map improvement tool and those -- like the UK -- that have so far been left out.

Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/11/google-map-maker-comes-to-the-uk/

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