After looking over the many different blogs posted about maps by other mapgeeks other than who is in our class, I found that they were very graphically rich, which is what we are also striving for. It was interesting to read the blogs from the students out of Reno, NV and how this affected what maps were used. A lot of their maps were focused on Nevada and the surrounding states. This gave a completely different perspective because I am used to reading the blogs posted by my classmates in Massachusetts.
I then went on to look at the more professional blogs on cartography and GIS. Many of these links brought me to blogs that seemed more like articles out of a scholarly journal than a blog. Some blogs were people just blogging about their thoughts dealing with maps and map things, while others used it as a form of publication without having to go through the whole publication process. This is a great way to get ideas out there and in the open for others to thing about and critique. One of these blogs that caught my eye was the GIS for Archaeology and CRM link. This blog written by a mapgeek named Matt, combined archaeology and GIS to recreate a scene in Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania. Matt took the crumbling foundation and put it into sketchup. From here the mill was recreated, along with an 1890 photo that was recreated and the sketchup mill was placed in the photo. This makes me wonder what else people can unearth, recreate in google sketchup, and then place into current or old photos to show what it would have looked like. Here’s a picture of the mill incorporated into the 1890 photo.
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