Map Week #3 - Ueno Old and New
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Tufte, 1990, p58
In Envisioning Information Edward Tufte reprints an old map of Ueno (you can see Shinobazu Pond on the left there) to illustrate the subtleties of colour in a well-shaded map. In 1990 the good people at the Kokudo Chiriin put out a 1:10,000 map of Tokyo, far more boldly but also beautifully coloured. It comes in a handsome dustjacket, and when I opened it I discovered the map folded inside presented the exact view the map Tufte provides.
For some reason I simply could not get the colours right in the scan, and the following is only a garish approximation of what is really a wonderful and extraordinarily detailed map.
Kokudo Chiriin, Tokyo Chushinbu 1:10,000, 1990
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Posted to Other Places • 2003.07.01 (Tue) • 11:39
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Posted by MacDara 2003.07.02, 02:15
Those maps are frighteningly detailed. Almost like satellite photographs. Here, our ordnance survey maps are so bland, and in dense areas can be quite confusing.
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