UTM – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:23:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg UTM – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 How UTM Works https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/08/how-utm-works/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:23:47 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2507 utm

Here’s a brief guide to the Universal Transverse Mercator system, which many of us know from mucking around with topographical maps. (At one point I could give my location using the UTM-derived military grid system.) [Geonewsfeed]

]]> 2507 After the Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/07/after-the-map/ Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:08:07 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2427 More]]> after-the-mapWilliam Rankin’s After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century is out this month from the University of Chicago Press (Amazon, iBooks). The book’s website explains in depth what it’s about, and makes all the book’s illustrations and data available for free download. [GIS Lounge]

This book can be read at two scales. Narrowly, it is a history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century that situates technologies like GPS within a longer trajectory of spatial knowledge. But more expansively, by connecting geographic knowledge to territorial politics and new ways of navigating the world, it is also a political and cultural history of geographic space itself.

I’ve posted a few of Rankin’s earlier projects for the Radical Cartography website on The Map Room; see for example City Income Donuts and The World’s Population by Latitude and Longitude.

See also: Map Books of 2016.

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