{"id":1958,"date":"2013-03-28T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T12:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T12:45:05","slug":"maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love maps. I have a calendar with historical maps on my wall next to my desk. I love books based around atlases (such as the {{Historical Atlas of}} series (many by {{Ian Barnes}} (similarly related\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/03\/16\/atlas-of-the-year-1000-by-john-man\/#.UUUB0xxeZ30\">review<\/a>)). I like going to museums, visiting websites, used book shops, etc and just peruse the maps. I used to have a small collection of rail and bus transit maps from around the world (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York City, Washington DC, Chicago &#8230;).\u00a0On my phone I have Apple Maps, Google Maps, MapQuest, Scout, TeleNav, Park Me, and Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p>I love books like {{1421}} by {{Gavin Menzies}} (my <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/04\/28\/1421-by-gavin-menzies\/#.UUC-VhxeZfA\">review<\/a>) that have histories of map making, ancient maps reproduced, etc.<\/p>\n<p>When I graduated from <a href=\"http:\/\/hvcc.edu\">HVCC<\/a> in 2001, I had hoped to join many of my classmates from school at <a href=\"http:\/\/mapinfo.com\">MapInfo<\/a>. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geographic_information_system\">GIS<\/a> is fascinating (and know someone, now, who works for the KY government doing <a href=\"http:\/\/gis.stackexchange.com\">GIS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could be a cartographer.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t draw, though &#8211; so I sate my appetite for geography via reading maps others have made.<\/p>\n<p>Data visualization, which is all map-making is, is another, broader interest of mine &#8211; but also one I don&#8217;t have enough of a grasp of to work with intelligently too often.<\/p>\n<p>All this leads me to ask for the best introduction to GIS you have seen for someone interested in cartography, and with a basic knowledge of system design and architecture. What would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love maps. I have a calendar with historical maps on my wall next to my desk. I love books based around atlases (such as the {{Historical Atlas of}} series (many by {{Ian Barnes}} (similarly related\u00a0review)). I like going to museums, visiting websites, used book shops, etc and just peruse the maps. I used to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1958\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[163,181,220,353,377,405,462,821],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-personal","tag-cartography","tag-collections","tag-data","tag-geography","tag-history","tag-infographic","tag-maps","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}