PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & diy

preview of the Hand Made Tokyo document of the 3331 Arts CYD Tokyo mapping workshop we did last summer.

Balloon Mapping Materials

An idiosyncratic example of an mapping project being driven by a personal obsession is Michael Cook’s ongoing exploration of the Toronto sewer system. Wearing urban infiltration, geography graduate student and photographer hats, Cook has been researching the underground constructed landscapes of the Greater Toronto Area for the last decade.

I also learned from the blog that many transit systems were making data available to Google and software developers that could be used in the creation of a "Frequent Service Map." The Chicago Transit Authority makes such data available. Since I have some skills and tools that could produce such a map and since I also have the interest, I decided to give it a shot.

Site-specific map plotting the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within

London. Power lines are drawn in pencil on the back of the map which conduct the electricity

from the radio to the front of poster. Placing a metal pushpin onto each station then allows

us to listen to the sound broadcast live from that location.

The Hand Drawn Map Association (HDMA) is an ongoing archive of user submitted maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand. HDMA logo