{"id":1789502,"date":"2020-10-07T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789502"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:20:54","slug":"scarfolk-map-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/scarfolk-map-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarfolk Map Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A map of Scarfolk<\/a> has been announced. For those blissfully unaware, Scarfolk<\/a> is Richard Littler\u2019s fictional, satirical English town locked in a 1970s-era dystopia. Littler has been producing deeply creepy examples of graphic design<\/a>\u2014public information posters, mainly\u2014purporting to emanate from Scarfolk authorities on his blog and in two books so far. This \u201croad and leisure map for uninvited tourists,\u201d which apparently comes with a postcard and visa, costs \u00a312. As they say in Scarfolk: For more information please reread. [via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A map of Scarfolk has been announced. For those blissfully unaware, Scarfolk is Richard Littler\u2019s fictional, satirical English town locked in a 1970s-era dystopia. Littler has been producing deeply creepy examples of graphic design\u2014public information… 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":[57],"tags":[936,192,1489],"class_list":["post-1789502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-imaginary-maps","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-scarfolk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787704,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/09\/monocarto-2019-winners-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789502,"position":0},"title":"MonoCarto 2019 Winners Announced","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 September 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The winners\u2014or as Daniel Huffman is calling them, the \u201cfinal selection\u201d\u2014of the Monochrome Mapping Competition (now called MonoCarto 2019) have been announced. 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Said features include the rebuilt map data previously announced for iOS 12 (previously: Apple Maps Data Being Completely Rebuilt for iOS 12; A Look at the Rebuilt Apple Maps) but, as they announced this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apple-maps-look-around-1024x519.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apple-maps-look-around-1024x519.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apple-maps-look-around-1024x519.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apple-maps-look-around-1024x519.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1791657,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-is-a-fake\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789502,"position":2},"title":"‘The Vinland Map Is a Fake’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus has been for some time that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. A battery of non-destructive tests by Yale University, which holds the map in its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been performed on the map, and the results of those tests have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Vinland Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vinland-map-1024x709.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1811111,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/12\/the-overture-map-foundation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789502,"position":3},"title":"The Overture Map Foundation","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 December 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Announced earlier this month, the Overture Map Foundation is an initiative founded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta (i.e. Facebook), Microsoft and TomTom to build an ecosystem of interoperable open map data\u2014an ecosystem, note, that does not at the moment include Apple, Esri or Google, so presumably this is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Industry"","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787077,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789502,"position":4},"title":"Equal Earth Physical Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 February 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"On Sunday Tom Patterson announced that the Equal Earth Physical Map is now available for download in JPEG, Illustrator and GeoTIF formats. Unlike its political counterpart, no territorial boundaries appear on this map (though cities do). Not having borders doesn't mean that Tom and his collaborators won't get into trouble\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-asia-banner-1024x341.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-asia-banner-1024x341.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-asia-banner-1024x341.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/equal-earth-physical-asia-banner-1024x341.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788038,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/11\/the-writers-map-wins-a-world-fantasy-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789502,"position":5},"title":"The Writer’s Map Wins a World Fantasy Award","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 November 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Writer\u2019s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, which I reviewed on Tor.com last year, has won a World Fantasy Award for its editor, Huw Lewis-Jones. The 2019 World Fantasy Awards were announced yesterday at the World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Los Angeles; Lewis-Jones won in the Special\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Writer\u2019s Map (cover)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-writers-map-209x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789502"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789513,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789502\/revisions\/1789513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}