Episode notes
Alex Schmidt is joined by author & comedy writer Dennard Dayle (1900HotDog.com, book ‘Everything Abridged’) and comics & comedy writer Brendan McGinley (1900HotDog.com, comic series ‘Citizen X’) for a look at why maps are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
(Alex’s podcast hosting service requires a minimum of 5 characters per episode title, so that’s why this episode’s title has an exclamation point)
LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:
- 1900HOTDOG.com — read monthly columns there by Dennard Dayle and by Brendan McGinley (and by Alex Schmidt too)
- Everything Abridged: Stories by Dennard Dayle
- Dennard Dayle’s humor pieces for The New Yorker
- Citizen X by Brendan McGinley
- DOSE comics anthology
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Theater Of The World: The Maps That Made History by Thomas Reinertsen Berg, translated by Alison McCullough
- The Oxford Map Companion by Patricia Seed
- On The Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Looks by Simon Garfield
- 9 things to know about Google’s maps data: Beyond the Map — note: this is only a source for the “20 million new pieces of data” stat. All other research in this podcast about Google’s company and services relied on outside sources.
- Google’s Blind Spots: Can governments get Google Earth to obscure images of sensitive locations? (Slate)
- “Is Google wired for geopolitics?” by Miranda Bogen (Medium)
- Why Google Shows Different Maps to Different Countries (WYNC “On The Media”)
- This Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Live On (Smithsonian SmartNews)
- Counter-mapping: cartography that lets the powerless speak (The Guardian)
- From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Google Maps now depicts the Earth as a globe (The Verge)
- This animated map shows the true size of each country (Nature)
- The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Smithsonian) — this is a summary of the book Brendan referenced, all about map thefts from libraries.
The mapfight.xyz diagram of the relative sizes of Greenland and Africa:
A diagram by UK climate data scientist Neil Kaye, showing the world’s countries in actual size (dark blue) versus Mercator size (light blue):
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- Brendan McGinley
- Dennard Dayle
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