{"id":1789338,"date":"2020-09-21T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789338"},"modified":"2020-09-21T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:00:41","slug":"the-ceramic-map-of-delft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/the-ceramic-map-of-delft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ceramic Map of Delft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mappery.org\/keramieken-kaart-van-delft\/\">Mappery has photos<\/a> of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keramiekenkaart.nl\">Keramieken Kaart van Delft<\/a> (Ceramic Map of Delft), a remarkable large ceramic mosaic map based on a 1672 map by Frederick de Wit that is mounted to a brick wall on a street in Delft, the Netherlands. Designed by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/smashing-tiles.com\">Nan Deardorff-McClain<\/a>, the map was supported by a crowdfunding campaign and built by around 500 local volunteers. The grand opening was to have been in March, but the pandemic intervened. More photos are available at the project\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/keramiekenkaart\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/keramieken_kaart\/\">Instagram<\/a> pages; a short video on the making of the map is below (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQMY4kTGzFE\">on YouTube<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ad.nl\/delft\/delft-krijgt-landkaart-van-mozaieksteentjes-br~a90ab431\/\">Coverage in the <em>Algemeen Dagblad<\/em><\/a> is in Dutch, as are most of the links.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Make the Keramieken Kaart van Delft (the ceramic map) in 42 Easy Steps 4\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQMY4kTGzFE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mappery has photos of the new Keramieken Kaart van Delft (Ceramic Map of Delft), a remarkable large ceramic mosaic map based on a 1672 map by Frederick de Wit that is mounted to a brick&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/the-ceramic-map-of-delft\/\">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":[49],"tags":[1481,1482,1108,547],"class_list":["post-1789338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-ceramics","tag-delft","tag-mosaics","tag-netherlands","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1834248,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/09\/new-gravity-map-of-mars-reveals-subsurface-variations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789338,"position":0},"title":"New Gravity Map of Mars Reveals Subsurface Variations","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 September 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Gravity map of Mars, from Root et al. 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A gravity high signal is located in the volcanic Tharsis Region (the red area in the centre right of the image), which is surrounded by a ring of negative gravity anomaly (shown in blue).","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gravity-mars.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787479,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/07\/the-history-of-the-netherlands-in-100-old-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789338,"position":1},"title":"The History of the Netherlands in 100 Old Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 July 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Briefly noted: the publication last month of Marieke van Delft and Reinder Storm's De Geschiedeneis van Nederland in 100 Oude Kaarten (Lannoo), whose title, for the 98.6 percent of you who are not visiting this website from the Netherlands, translates as The History of the Netherlands in 100 Old Maps,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/de-geschiedenis-van-nederland-in-100-oude-kaarten-249x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1810022,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/supergps-promises-ten-centimetre-accuracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789338,"position":2},"title":"SuperGPS Promises Ten-Centimetre Accuracy","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"It seems to be steam engine time for GPS alternatives. 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