Big Maps

Lights Out for the Electric Map
Like many large map installations, the Electric Map of the Battle of Gettysburg has gone the way of the dodo. The 30×30-foot map has been illustrating troop movements during the battle using more than 600 light bulbs since it opened… »
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Categories: Big Maps, Historical Maps
More About Restoring the World’s Fair Map
The New York Times has more about the continuing efforts to restore at least part of the so-called Texaco Map, the terrazo map from the 1964-65 World’s Fair; see also this related blog entry about the return of a missing… »
Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Categories: Big Maps
Another Challenger Map Update
Don Young writes to tell us about the Challenger Map’s new website, which means that my old links are now broken. “This is a renewed site from the Challenger Map Foundation updating the status of the map and the… »
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Categories: Big Maps
Challenger Map Update
Melissa writes, “Since you bring it up, here’s an update on the Challenger Map” — which, you will recall, has been in storage since 1997. From yesterday’s Vancouver Sun: Now efforts are about to begin to restore the 196-piece… »
Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Categories: Big Maps
B.C. Living Map Moves
The large, 12×22-metre Living Map, a showpiece of the apparently defunct “B.C. Experience” exhibition in Victoria, British Columbia, is being moved to an agriculturally themed tourist attraction in nearby Saanich. (This map should not be confused with the older… »
Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Categories: Big Maps
Challenger Map Gets Reprieve
A highlight of Vancouver’s Pacific National Exhibition grounds was George Challenger’s massive — at 26×24 metres — exaggerated-relief map of British Columbia, which was on display at the B.C. Pavillion until that building was torn down in 1997. Saved… »
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 5:39 AM
Categories: Big Maps
Giant Lego Map of the U.S.
Boing Boing reports that, at the World Children’s Festival in Washington, DC this past weekend, Lego set up a “building event” in which kids contributed to a giant Lego mosaic map of the United States. (Thumbnail at right; see… »
Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 8:09 AM
Categories: Big Maps
The Living Map
Cartography draws our attention to the Living Map, a huge, three-dimensional map of British Columbia now on display as part of the “B.C. Experience” exhibition that just opened in Victoria’s Crystal Garden. The 40-foot-by-74-foot map even models the curvature… »
Posted on Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 6:06 PM
Categories: Big Maps

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