Ibrahim Miranda, Mapping Artist

Cuban artist Ibrahim Miranda has been working with an array of maps to create fantastical animals and spaces often using the maps of his home country. To view more of his works please visit the link below: http://www.universes-in-universe.de/car/venezia/bien49/latam/e-miranda.htm

Qin Ga, the Long March

Now it became artist Qin Ga's turn to travel the Long March route, starting from Luding Bridge, Sichuan Province, crossing over the snowy mountains and swampy grasslands, marching towards Yan'an. Accompanying him were Gao Feng, Gao Xiang, Li Ding, and Mei Er (a tattoo artist and three cameramen). They were to help record and tattoo onto Qin Ga's back the remaining sites left unvisited by the Long March team.

http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=2013

Flickr and Mapping Features

Uploading an image using your mobile phone to map your photos. As I suspected all you do need is a mobile phone and GPS bluetooth using a programme called Zonetag. You can read all about it here:

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/10/geotagging_with_zonet/

Community Maps Project

The Community Maps Project working with local schools and university students exploring community through mapping the areas. Nice work created by students and something that can be done in the classroom. http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~rol1851/community/maps_project.html

New Geographies Exhibition-Monica de Miranda

MONICA DE MIRANDA
http://www.monicademiranda.com/
Rooted in cross-cultural fertilisations, New Geographies pushes the boundaries of the conventional notions of place and nation. A solo exhibition reflecting on how globalisation is profoundly transforming our apprehension of the world, provoking new senses of identity and the creation of new territories. New Geographies explores the subsequent erosion of national identities and the advent of a new cosmopolitanism, embodied by the juxtaposition of a rich mix of communities in a contemporary urban metropolis, such as London.

Opening at 198 Gallery, 198 Railton Road, Herne Hill, Lambeth, London, SE24 0LU

Dates: March 29 to May 11, 2007

Strange Maps...Blog

This little jem of a blog shows all types of STRANGE MAPS like Inside the Hollow Earth and many others, enjoy! http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston, USA

This map centre may not be in the UK or elsewhere outside the North American continent; however the website is filled with mapping goodies...like education resources, lesson plans and an online exhibition.
http://maps.bpl.org/

Creative Cartography Exhibition, New Urban Arts

New Urban Arts (youth focused organisation) in the USA worked with young people on creative cartography and had the works displayed. You can visit their flickr site for more images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/newurbanarts/sets/72157594408295097/detail/

Worldmapper

It's always interesting where info mapping will turn up. In the Times newspaper on Monday 26.02.07 they had an article about worldmapper. Worldmapper is a site where you can find many world maps which show distorted shapes of countries to indicate specific types of information such as population, military spending, etc. And here some of still think maps are used for locating physical spaces. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1438060.ece

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Mount Fear / Artist Abigail Reynolds

Artist Abigail Reynolds, Mount Fear

3-d works of information taken from frequency and location of crimes from official statistics. Mount Fears have been created for East London, Manchester, Eindhoven and South London.

http://www.abigailreynolds.com/images/models.html