Review by Glenn O. Humphress, Southeast Community College Have you ever come across an article or book that is so in your wheelhouse that you thought, “why didn’t I think to write that?” As a lifelong enthusiast of both the cartographic and vinyl record media forms (the latter to the...
Review by Joe Hedges, Department of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, for the Association of American Geographers. Maps on Vinyl: An Atlas of Album Cover Maps, Volume No. 1 by Damien Saunder is a remarkable collection of more than 300 pages of images and insights connecting cartography to...
In Part 2 of Finding Maps in Album Cover Art using AI, I shared the results of ChatGPT's CLIP to fast-track the process of finding album covers with maps on them. Whilst the result were promising, I was keen to push the model further to see if I could reduce...
In Part 1 of Finding Maps in Album Cover Art using AI, I shared a holiday project where I hoped AI would fast-track the process of finding album covers with maps on them. After some digging around I chose ChatGPT's CLIP model as a starting point to kick off the...
In the middle of last year, I released Maps on Vinyl: An Atlas of Album Cover Maps. The book showcases 415 vinyl album covers and the shares the stories behind them. The collection of albums was built up over a decade of visiting physical and digital record stores, thrift shops,...
Take a moment to think about the powerful role maps have in our lives. Apart from helping us shape our spatial understanding of the world around us, maps were there for many of our meaningful moments. We used them to navigate a new continent on our first solo trip, to arrive on the...
The EARTH atlas series is an exclusive limited edition set of atlases with the plates from each atlas being destroyed at the end of the print run. Millennium House (the publisher) had one objective when making the EARTH atlas series. It was quite simply to produce the largest and best...
