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| Monday Feb 25, 2002 | Old maps can be fascinating but, by their very nature as historical
artifacts, can also contain
feature
names that are offensive to our modern sensibilities.
A cursory
place name search
of modern USGS quads will unveil several
"Negro Lakes"and "Japanese Creeks"that didn't always have these (comparatively) pleasant names. Some offensive names have been overlooked altogether, and remain on current additions of USGS maps. See if you can spot the racist place names on some of the maps that were posted earlier.
to Cartography by cadastral |
| Monday Jan 21, 2002 | Standardization of map symbols is a necessary component to a well organized interior survey. Sometimes this can produce a big ugly mess, but it can produce beautiful maps in a variety of different cartographic idioms. to Cartography by cadastral |
| Sometimes I think that the Soviets gave a medal for just about everything. to History by cadastral |
| Saturday Jan 19, 2002 | Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority... but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of providence, determined still to do our best to the last ... Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale...
Robert Falcon Scott, 1912 to History by cadastral |
| Now that the cold war is over, American geeks and Russian geeks can feel free to celebrate their respective triumphs over outdated, but sometimes beautiful instruments.
to Gadgets by cadastral |
| Recombinant Music has been around since the late 19th century. Now there is a powerful online tool for fans of both the samplers and the sampled. to Music by cadastral |
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