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Author Essay: My submission consists of two interactive maps (accessible at http://graphspace.com/every-line-every-point) generated from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSM is a crowdsourced map of the world, edited collaboratively by hundreds of thousands of volunteers since its founding in 2004. Because the data for OSM is Continue reading →

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Author Essay: As a long time cyclist, I recently realized that the mental map that exists in my mind of San Francisco is different from most (and importantly does not exist in print form).  Many times when asked for directions by a driver, I found myself Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Two experiences inform the creation of the San Francisco Public Art Map. As a San Francisco dog owner, I often walk my terrier at Fort Funston. At the ocean’s edge, by a crumbling concrete structure, are various artworks celebrating dogs. A bas-relief sculpture depicts running greyhounds. A ceramic work shows a Continue reading →

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Author Essay: He is driving and I am sitting next to him, sometimes I reach to his side and put my hand in his, other times he reaches to my side and puts his hand in mine. We roam, we talk, and we look. Holding hands Continue reading →

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Author Essay: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AMP) is an online digital storytelling and mapping project of the San Francisco Tenants Union endeavoring to make visible the ways in which evictions and gentrification target San Francisco Bay Area communities. It seeks to de-isolate Continue reading →

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Author Essay: The site of the proposed Uralkali Residential Complex (URC) is located just east of Berezniki, a mining city of 154,000 in the Perm region of Russia, close to the Ural Mountains. Historically a labor camp, Berezniki sits on vast amounts of potash fertilizer. Due to several sink holes Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Earlier this year, Hanah Weyer approached me to illustrate a map for her book “On The Come Up” which is based on the true story of AnneMarie. AnneMarie is a thirteen-year-old girl struggling with teen pregnancy and her unexpected success as a young actor.

The map is of the isolated neighborhood in Queens, called Far Rockaway, where AnneMarrie grew up. Hannah’s book is about life in Far Rockaway through Continue reading →

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Author Essay: My name is Natasha Mei Ong. I am an eight-year-old student at SF Brightworks School. In our school, we have arcs, which are specific topics that we study on. Within the arc we do a project. This arc was “maps”, and my project I call, Natasha’s Pigeon & Pastry Project, Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Ten years ago I started to map the movement of the body in relationship to built form. As an Architecture student at Yale College, my early investigations started with simply recording the body over time, allowing a landscape to emerge. The line drawing in this mapping is Continue reading →

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Author Essay: Disguised as a visual field guide for a traveller, Bangkok_Hyperreal, is a discipline-specific study and the first of its kind that critically observes the City from both architectural and urban design perspectives. By synthetically combining Continue reading →

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