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Self-Portrait Map

Arts, Culture & Media

Artists Bill Outcault and Lilla LoCurto digitally scanned their entire bodies and then found a way to write software which would project the coordinates of their human forms into the restrictive space of a map.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Charts a Novel

Arts, Culture & Media

Historian Simon Schama on Maps

Arts, Culture & Media

Sound Map

Arts, Culture & Media

The First Map of America

Arts, Culture & Media

Self Portrait Map

Arts, Culture & Media

Artists Bill Outcault and Lilla LoCurto digitally scanned their entire bodies and then found a way to write software which would project the coordinates of their human forms into the restrictive space of a map. (Originally aired: December 1, 2001)

Sound Map

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist Andra McCartney tries to capture the sounds that reveal, if only to your subconscious, where you are. (Originally aired: December 1, 2001)

The First Map of America

Arts, Culture & Media

The Library of Congress recently bought the only surviving copy of Martin Waldseemller’s 1507 map of America for ten million dollars. Producer Andrea Murray talks to the map’s conservators, who are piecing together what the map meant to 16th-century Europeans. (Originally aired: December 1, 2001)

The Bomb Sight Project locates where German bombs fell on London during an eight-month period in World War II.

This map shows the locations where bombs fell on London during World War II

Conflict

From December 1940 to July 1941 German planes carried out heavy bombing of London. The period, known as the “Blitz,” left some parts of London in ruins. Decades later, a team of researchers used data to create a map that locates where each bomb was dropped during that period.

Greenland

Take a 360-degree peek at Greenland’s Nuuks and crannies

Media

Don’t have any plans to visit Greenland? Don’t worry: You can now get up close and personal with the island’s rocky coasts and Arctic landscapes thanks to Google’s Street View mapping technology.