{"id":1786034,"date":"2018-07-30T07:15:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786034"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:15:55","slug":"geographers-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/geographers-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographers on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waldo Tobler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Library of Congress’s Geographers on Film<\/a> collection is a video archive of interviews<\/a> with cartographers and geographers conducted during the 1970s and 1980s. About 300 interviews<\/a> were apparently conducted; 28 are online so far.\u00a0Interview subjects include\u00a0Walter Ristow<\/a>, Arthur Robinson (in 1972<\/a> and 1984<\/a>) and\u00a0Waldo Tobler<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Library of Congress’s Geographers on Film collection is a video archive of interviews with cartographers and geographers conducted during the 1970s and 1980s. About 300 interviews were apparently conducted; 28 are online so far.\u00a0Interview… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,124],"tags":[115,312,66],"class_list":["post-1786034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-geography","tag-academe","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-library-of-congress","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790248,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/how-black-cartographers-have-mapped-racism-in-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786034,"position":0},"title":"How Black Cartographers Have Mapped Racism in America","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Writing at The Conversation, geographers Derek Alderman and Joshua Inwood explore African American examples of \u201ccounter-mapping,\u201d from maps made by the Black Panthers proposing new police districts to modern interactive maps of lynchings and police violence. \u201cBlack Americans were among the earliest purveyors of counter-mapping, deploying this alternative cartography to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Human Geography"","block_context":{"text":"Human Geography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/human-geography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lynchings-tuskegee-1024x817.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787640,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/reviews-of-edneys-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786034,"position":1},"title":"Reviews of Edney’s Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Matthew Edney\u2019s Cartography: The Ideal and Its History was published by the University of Chicago Press last April. 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