interesting article about a student design to help cyclist in the capital find routes more easily using mental mapping as part of the process.
by the way, scarborough’s festival of cycling is earmarked for 12-14 august this year.
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John Cossins – Scarborough’s first map-maker
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lovely bit of scarborough map history on the scarborough evening news website today. read it here.
we were delighted to see that john cossins map also uses multiple visual perspectives just like the CHART map.
kirkstall community map
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quick link for you – kirkstall community association (in leeds) using google maps to encourage locals to get to know their locale better: http://new.kirkstall.org.uk/321
of brollies and broadcasts
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Scarborough is set to be the subject of a programme in a new BBC2 series focussing on British towns presented by the umbrella-carrying Nick Crane. We were paid a visit by researcher Laura yesterday who was particularly interested in the CHART Scarborough project with a view to featuring it on the programme.
It was good to hear that, unlike the majority of TV programmes, Nick plays a role in deciding the programme’s content and so a copy of CHART Scarborough map and a set of postcards are heading back to the man with the brolly, who is of a course a geographer and map-fan himself, to see if he wants to come and have a chat about it when they’re visiting Scarborough next week. As fans of the Map Man and Coast series we’re quite excited here at Electric Angel.
The series (with or without CHART) is due to be broadcast late summer 2011.
scarborough good pub guide
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been meaning to blog this for weeks as it’s great to see another unique map of the town. it was brought to our attention by a visitor who popped into the gallery and showed us it after collecting a CHART Scarborough map. we tweeted it and darren, the creator, very kindly sent us a copy.
a beautiful piece of hand-drawn design, it’s constructed from beermats which open out to reveal a map of scarborough’s choicest drinking establishments with some lovely line drawings of the buildings. you can purchase your own copy at the said establishments. nice maps and good beer? a perfect evening in our book.
mission:explore
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the author of the kids explorative geography book ‘mission:explore’ has blogged about our postcards project. see it here: http://livinggeography.blogspot.com/2010/08/postcards-from-edge.html
nice bit of synchronicity as mission:explore arrived on my desk last week!
Timeline
This month’s Renaissance Newsletter has a timeline of the CHART Scarborough project showing the research that went into the creation of the map and how it evolved as a result. You can pick up a free copy from the renaissance centre on Falconers Road [CHART Scarborough grid reference H10] or download it here
And there’s more…
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If this is your first visit to this site, then welcome – we hope you find it stimulating and useful. This is just a temporary website as we develop a fully interactive web-based version of the CHART Scarborough map. Development is being carried out by University of Hull Creative Enterprise Lab with Dr. John Whelan project managing and Electric Angel Design as consultants to the project. As we keep saying to people, this map is just the start…
In the meantime, please pick up a map (in venues across the town now), download a trail or two and explore.
Launch event
Photographs from the launch event featuring Stephen Joseph Theatre Outreach as figures from Scarborough’s cultural heritage and performance by Scarborough HipHop School.
