tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84640888512828496522011-06-10T08:18:04.006-07:00The Landscape of MapsHugh Daviesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464088851282849652.post-38616218174917960452008-05-31T03:38:00.004-07:002008-05-31T03:49:15.562-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Administered by </span></span><a href="http://analogueartmap.blogspot.com/2006/09/who-are-analogue-art-map-founded-by.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Analogue Art Map</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,  this blog is dedicated to the exploration of the surface of maps, atlases and globes and the overall geography of representations of space.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Comments and submissions relating to cartographical geography are most welcome to this site.</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8464088851282849652-3861621817491796045?l=meta-geographica.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hugh Daviesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464088851282849652.post-24476770745393325742008-05-07T02:08:00.000-07:002008-12-08T15:52:38.249-08:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The Tropic of fold is a horizontal line in a map that allows it to be folded or unfolded according to the area of the map of desired relevance of the user. </div><div><br /></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197565849812458482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2mj7F2_I/AAAAAAAAASY/fswaFFwcGkQ/s400/punta.jpg" border="0" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Through repeated use, these tropics wear through to become complete breaks in the map surface.</div><div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2mj7F3AI/AAAAAAAAASg/iz6YaKhEJf8/s1600-h/tropic1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197565849812458498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2mj7F3AI/AAAAAAAAASg/iz6YaKhEJf8/s400/tropic1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>Where horizontal and vertical lines of Fold intersect, a third phenomenon, which i have called a Fissure Island can occur.</div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197565854107425810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2mz7F3BI/AAAAAAAAASo/87dYFUHFBC4/s400/alberquerque.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div><div>A Fissure Island is a negative space left by the wear and tear of a map in its folded state that revels itself when the map is unfolded.</div><div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2nD7F3CI/AAAAAAAAASw/zyslYbo6eWg/s1600-h/ibitha.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197565858402393122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jE_9LpnbmHU/SCF2nD7F3CI/AAAAAAAAASw/zyslYbo6eWg/s400/ibitha.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8464088851282849652-2447677074539332574?l=meta-geographica.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hugh Daviesnoreply@blogger.com0