#spatial mapping

[chicago-geniza]

This week I have been doing Stoned Exposure Therapy which is where I wait for the edible to hit, leave the house, recite the litany against fear ("I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer," &c.), then psych myself into attempting a mundane activity that freaks me out for autism reasons (if avoiding it is impeding how I want to move through the world). Today's Stoned Exposure Therapy was "take a shorter but totally unfamiliar bus route back from the movie theater instead of a familiar bus route that is 35 minutes longer with an extra transfer." I did it and only got lost once 😤

[russellmoreton]

Core, Periphery and Semiperiphery : Spatial Drawings #1 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ russellmoreton.tumblr.com

[banyanas]

man if i had an actual plot structure to use as scaffolding (because i can’t really do slice of life or things like it) i could write so many N and Uzi words that are just the actual practicalities and obstacles (varying in size and some seen, some unforeseen) of an interspecies relationship

[dianadeadwing]

More Maps

@blackbloodredpepper mentioned Bob and Linda’s bedroom having two doors and the part my brain that loves architecture went into overdrive got activated and now I’m going to ramble about the apartment under the cut.

TLDR: Bob and Linda’s bedroom could have originally been a dining room and other weirdness about the apartment.

I want to preface this by saying screenshots of the apartment are inconsistent and there are some things that just generally don’t make sense about the building as a whole. Feel free to disagree these are just uninformed opinions of mine.

Bob and Linda’s Room- I suspect this is a converted dining room. This is mostly based on it having two entry doors that are right next to each other. The closet could have originally been a coat or broom closet. One of the door ways is very close to the stairs of the apartment and the other leads to the living room which would both be good entry ways for guests / entertainment. Teddys dining room for example is directly off his living room which also serves as the entry way for the apartment. It’s also close to the extremely small kitchen.

The Kitchen - The kitchen is so small that when guests are invited over (usually for thanksgiving) another table is set up in the living room. Because of inconsistencies between shots it’s hard to say how much space the kitchen table takes up but it is definitely a very inclosed space at the back of the apartment that requires any guests to travel through a hallway and past a bedroom door to get to it. It’s inconvenient for guests. Also that giant table in front of the fire escape seems like a fire hazard.

Tina’s and Gene’s Rooms- If Bob and Linda’s room was a dining room either Gene or Tina’s room would have been intended to be the master bedroom and the other the guest bedroom. Making the apartment initially two bedroom one bath which is much more standard than four bedroom one bath. They are roughly the same size as rooms and both have a closet/ window(s). I would lean towards Tina’s bedroom being the master bedroom because of its position away from the street, it’s being closer to amenities, and it’s proximity to the crawl space. Gene’s bedroom being street facing, over the stairs, and next to the living room leads me to believe it’s a guest space.

Louise’s Room - This is a closet. In fact none of my maps really do it justice as the Mary Poppins bag of a room it really is. Screen shots consistently show her room as being only as wide as the stairs which would also make it only as wide as Gene’s closet, the washing machine closet, AND the restaurant kitchen. (Eventually I’m going to have to make a whole post on how the restaurant kitchen makes no sense in relation to the stairs, so I’ll save that for now) I usually choose to make it bigger than it actually is on maps so all of her things can fit into it which complicates the dimensions of other things particularly the dimensions of the washing machine closet.

I don’t really have any comments at this time on the living room or bathroom that haven’t already been covered above. Overall from behind the scenes materials it does seem like many backgrounds are done on a case by case basis with a few stock staples like the couch and the kitchen which would be why there are inconsistencies. The number of panels in each area isn’t consistent. I’m sure I don’t even need to say that early seasons are especially strange. Sometimes Tina doesn’t have a closet and some electrical sockets moved around.

[chiropteracupola]

I like when books have Maps and Charts in them and I think that all books should have such things.

and books which already have them? I think they should have More Maps and Charts.

[fall24iksection]

MAPPING A LAYER IN A CITY - CAIRO

circles are drawn over a figure-ground map of Cairo - the distance for the call to prayer determined the spatial arrangement of buildings.

_ik

[kessira]

It is possible! Thanks to people who did a lot of math! Every projection is a choice of how to represent a sphere on a flat plane and each one prioritises different things. Mercator is excellent for charting courses at sea as it preserves the angle measurements taken on a compass, but at the expense of areas being inaccurate as above.

Equal area projections have to sacrifice something else instead. Generally this means shapes are distorted in some way that preserves area but means it's not useful for navigation like the Lambert Azimuthal projection. Or mean the latitude lines are curved rather than straight like the Eckhert VI map. For others it means that the map is no longer square shaped like the Goode homolosine, dymaxion or the waterman butterfly.

There is of course an xkcd about projections:

Including one specifically mentioning equal area projections

TL;DR you can buy an equal area world map, they're just not as common

In their defence, a lot of it is sand.

[daintilyultimateslayer]

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[martingarry-195]

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[russellmoreton]

Core, Periphery and Semiperiphery : Spatial Drawings #1 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ russellmoreton.tumblr.com

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[niggadiffusion]

[myjondaleh]

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[pokeposts]

us and our partner sprinted for 19 minutes to find this azelf the other day :'3 you get to see both of ours because it even has the fact that we were in a party on its info!!! :'D

[junimuchlismustafa]

Data survey lapangan dalam UTM dapat di kelola dengan baik menggunakan QGIS.

Data tabular survey lapangan yang di lengkapi dengan titik koordinat UTM zone 47 N dapat di plot ke atas aplikasi QGIS dimana sebaran data ini akan tampil dan memudahkan dalam analisis spasial, pemodelan spasial dan pengambilan keputusan. Dapatkan video tutorialnya disini:

[min-pathologica]

why am i such an absolute bitch in my dreams hello???? 😭 i ended up getting the summer school dream early and had like 3 angry breakdowns back to back lmao