PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & papernet

Design for pockets is important

I arrived at college in 1984 with my electric typewriter and a bit of BASIC learned in high school. I was a geography major, and learned to make maps in a cartography lab with vellum, ink, light tables, X-acto knives, and rub-on letters.

Une carte subjective, c'est une carte réalisée par un habitant ou un groupe d'habitants avec l'aide d'une équipe de géographes du dimanche ou autres artistes. Elle est ensuite imprimée et rendue publique dans les espaces de communication officiels des villes.

By removing the unnecessary, this New York City map-cut reveals the “paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets” of the greatest city in the world.

MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities) is a publication of research and visions; research into territories, which can be concrete or abstract, but always put into question. Map is not a magazine (it only has two pages) and is not a book (it is issued twice a year). Map presents itself as a folded poster (A1) where information is immediate, dense and objective in one side, and architectural and subjective on the other. Map is a guide to potential actions in the built environment, a folded encyclopedia of the possible, a topography of ideas, or a poster on the wall.

From GPS to pen and paper

Getting more people to contribute is crucial for any community-driven scheme, but particularly for maps – often associated with anorak-clad hikers waving GPS units. That's why a number of people are trying to come up with new ways to track information and get it into the system.

let's dream of a simple visual interface to get from OSM to an illustrator or inkscape file.

Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail.

a Very Good Thing because XSL-FO is designed to embed SVG which suddenly means that generating printed maps, whether it's using something like Cloudmade's decidely alpha SVG tiles or simply baking SVG maps using Mapnik, is actually well... possible enough to be considered easy.