Dr. Ristow paved the way for today's computerized cartography, through which people can essentially create personalized maps.
Here Ziggy becomes a forcefield of fabulation, an imaginative cartography through and to whom all manner of ley lines pass.
There are many challenging issues in generalization research: from modeling the complex decision-making processes inherent in the art and science of cartography, through to interaction models that support easy interaction and exploration of geographic phenomena across a continuum of scales.
Safavi, whose interest in topography and cartography developed through a fascination with what could be happening in empty parts of the globe, began her desert-orientated efforts in 2010 with Plenty of None, a sand, clothing, and epoxy paint work centered around desert ecology and the relationships we have with nature.
"Highly complex, heterogenous, enfolded cartographies emerge through this process that bring into relation spaces suggestive of technology, networks, the airborne, the sub-oceanic, morse, telecommunication, virus, cellular mitochondria, geology, aerial views of cities, the movements of code, data, plankton, astronomy, notation, etc".
Some radical forms of mapping, representation and analysis are being developed through a cartography that renders visible the fast-growing amount of data and information that we are gathering today.
Thanks to the hardened work of telecom research company Telegeography, we can see through internet cartography how cables stretch across ocean floors and nations, in order to make emailing and Facebooking possible.
When the new data comes in, both parties will use sophisticated computer software to begin carving up districts through politically creative cartography.
That simple math, however, will be done through the creative cartography, political high jinks, horse trading, begging, pleading and ingratiating that only the threat of losing political power can summon.
"We're now taking that beyond traditional cartography: if you're looking through your augmented reality glasses, what information would be relevant to you at that point in time?" A reference there to Google's Project Glass – the augmented reality spectacles that chief executive Larry Page has been spotted wearing in public several times this year.
Fischer is making milestones as he brings cartography into the digital age through stunning visuals and data-filled social maps.
