Category Archives: General
A People’s Atlas of Boston
We Bostonographers are very interested in people’s personal maps, particularly Kevin Lynch style cognitive mapping, about which Tim has written a Boston-centric primer. So when one of us learns about an event about something called Notes for a People’s Atlas … Continue reading
Footprints of Boston
We mapmakers earn our keep by somehow adding value to raw geographic data; that is, the craft requires more than just plotting the location of objects on the Earth’s surface. But sometimes it’s hard to compete with the simple elegance … Continue reading
Map Pinning Boston
Bostonography provides us with the perfect forum for sharing bizarre, hybrid posts that randomly incorporate some of our favorite things. There is no doubt that soon enough, I will write something up on gummi candy maps of Roxbury… even if … Continue reading
Posted in General, Historical, Unusual Medium
Tagged Boston, history of cartography, map pins, map tacks, pushpins, rand mcnally
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(Cartographic) Greetings from Boston
Ah, postcards. The travel microblogs of yore. For decades they were the preferred (if not only) method for sending updates and short messages from near and far to friends and family. If you ever find yourself bored in an antique … Continue reading
Posted in General, Geography, Historical, Transportation
Tagged Boston, maps, massachusetts, myth, postcards
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Merry Christmas, Boston, unless you’re colorblind
If so, just enjoy this map of ambiguously colored dots. This will be clarified at a later date. It’s this, but in Christmas-y red and green, for part of Boston. In 1898.
This is Bostonography
Greetings, Bay Staters and curious outsiders. This is Bostonography. My name is Andy Woodruff. I am a cartographer and one-fifth of Axis Maps. I have lived in the Boston area for a little over two years, having arrived in Cambridge … Continue reading
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