Saturday, July 10, 2010

BrainBank: Hard-Core Cartography Edition

I came across this map of The University of Warwick's campus at about ten to five. If it looks kind of old-timey, that's because it was indeed drawn up manually-- and of course, by manually I mean this was accomplished with a lone cartographer, Jeremy Wood, traversing all 238 miles of this campus on foot as a GPS satellite recorded every step that he took for transcription.

Practical? No. Awesome and an example of extreme dedication to one's craft? Totally.

The entire thing apparently took about 17 days of carefully-planned wandering to complete, and lest you think Jeremy forgot to add a personal touch to his map, behold:

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