{"id":1789003,"date":"2020-07-14T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789003"},"modified":"2020-07-14T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:12:54","slug":"what-an-atlas-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/what-an-atlas-does\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Atlas Does"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Wayne\u2019s article for Directions Magazine<\/em>, \u201cStories and Lies: What an Atlas Reveals<\/a>,\u201d does something interesting that I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever seen before (which at this point is saying something): it talks about atlases as a class<\/em>, exploring what they do and how they\u2019re arranged. For example: \u201cPage pairs are arguably the most effective format for blending narrative and cartography. With two facing pages, a self-contained story is told; then each page pair becomes a building block in the epic of the atlas itself.\u201d In other words, it looks at atlases as objects in themselves. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Wayne\u2019s article for Directions Magazine, \u201cStories and Lies: What an Atlas Reveals,\u201d does something interesting that I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever seen before (which at this point is saying something): it talks about atlases… 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":[29,639],"tags":[148,30],"class_list":["post-1789003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-world-atlases","tag-atlas","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/2016-holiday-gift-guide-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789003,"position":0},"title":"2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Books","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year at about this time I post a gift guide that lists some of the noteworthy books about maps that have been published this year. 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