At this beautiful new site, Geocoded Art, landscape paintings are geocoded and can be searched with a map interface. Or you can look up a favorite work by artist or title, and find out where in the world it was painted. All works are in the public domain. This is already a rich database which hopefully will continue to grow. This will surely be a favorite for art-history courses, giving context to paintings. However the stated goal is also “to use fine art to illuminate geography”. Found this via Google Maps Mania.
Archive for February, 2010
Amsterdam standing on its head? New features for Google Maps (click on a little green vial in top right corner), provide some interesting options, including a rotate button so we can view of the world as the Aussie’s see it. Zoomed in locally, Amsterdam looks more like the city depicted by 16th century cartographers starting with Cornelis Anthonisz.
The new features also include a handy zoom box tool (draw a box around your destination), and a tool tip for plotting the latitude and longitude. Google announced last Friday that Google Maps will be getting more new gadgets, with its own “Maps Lab.”
A thoughtful New York Times article by Alison Arieff describes a University of California, Berkeley project lead by Nicholas de Monchaux, an assistant professor of architecture and urban design. The project, Local Code, uses GIS to measure unused public land in major cities, such as abandoned lots and remnants of parcels on the edge of transportation networks, and proposes economically viable solutions for converting these spaces to green and environmentally sustainable public areas.
WPA2 : Local Code / Real Estates from Nicholas de Monchaux on Vimeo.
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