International List Your Maps On LibraryThing Month

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1bookblotter
Set 3, 2010, 11:21 am

This is International List Your Maps On LibraryThing Month!

Okay, I fibbed... But, I would like to put in a plug for LT map lovers to list their maps (I assume that we have all listed our atlases). The principal difference is that atlases are bound (Don't pounce on me, I know atlases have other info).

Maps are such a helpful adjunct or aid to reading or studying history, geology and other areas, that it seems natural to put them together. I'm not talking about the highway maps (unless antique perhaps) given away by the various states and (formerly) by gas stations to promote travel. There are just a very few of us (And, you know who you are!) that have listed, for example, their National Geographic maps. I'd wager that a very high percentage of you on this group have National Geographic and other interesting maps tucked away in a closet or elsewhere.

Anyway, let's celebrate ILYMOLT Month in fine fashion and list those maps (Commercial ends here)!

I took the step of having one atlas I own tagged with "Atlases-See Maps" (So others could find my atlases if they were at all interested) and putting both maps and atlases under the map tag. It made sense to me not to have two groupings and just have one tag group. But, that's just me and not part of ILYMOLT Month.

Hmm, ILYMOLT strikes me as an unfortunate, but somewhat memorable, acronym.

2reading_fox
Set 3, 2010, 11:28 am

Why would you assume they aren't already listed? ;-)

OK I confess I haven't listed my SDcard maps, and don't intend to - unless I buy several more when I might have to, simply to keep track.

3justjim
Set 3, 2010, 11:49 am

Yay! Now I'll know exactly where to find that stuffed bobcat. ;)

4justjim
Set 3, 2010, 11:50 am

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5bookblotter
Set 3, 2010, 12:10 pm

#2, reading_fox:

I snoop around LTer's libraries quite a bit, especially in the history area and usually look under the tag "maps" (and "atlases"). Very few list maps (in any number) and, if nothing else and as I said above, I'd bet that a substantial number have National Geographic maps. I should have put a limitation on that, however, and said that, "a very high percentage of you on this group IN THE USA have National Geographic maps." I'm so provincial!

BTW, nice Ordnance Survey group under your LT "maps" tag! I know who to see to get information on roaming in the UK.

6oregonobsessionz
Modificato: Set 3, 2010, 2:58 pm

I listed my Green Trails maps a while ago, but haven't updated as I acquired more. For those who don't know them, Green Trails maps are topo maps based on US Geological Survey 15 minute maps, with special maps for national parks and the Cascade volcanoes. As the name implies, foot trails are printed in green. Many of the maps also highlight winter recreation routes in red.

Green Trails is based in Seattle. Originally their maps covered the Cascades range in Washington and Oregon, but they have expanded to cover other popular hiking areas.

I haven't listed any of my old (1800s) maps. Maybe Tim could build MapThing in his spare time.

7Garp83
Set 5, 2010, 4:27 pm

I have so many Nat Geo maps that it would be a huge project to add them here ... maybe one day

8marmot
Ott 10, 2010, 9:25 pm

I've added a few unbound maps to my library, but I agree it seems like a huge project and would take more time than I have nowadays. Some of the maps have ISBNs, which makes them easy to enter, but the majority of them don't, which would require a lot of manual entry and too much work!

Ideally LibraryThing could sort the lists of maps by scale and subject and style, but there's probably no way to do that except by adding specific tags for each one.

9melannen
Ott 11, 2010, 11:04 pm

I'd feel weird about adding my National Geographic maps because I think of them as disposable (I use them as wallpaper and bookbinding paper and many other things! Sorry, I know some people in this group might find that blasphemous, but they accumulate so.) Same thing with my pile of obsolete aeronautical charts.

I might try to add some of my more interesting maps, though, even if I missed the official month! Even though I know there are some people on LT who greatly dislike the idea, they are part of my library.

10Garp83
Ott 12, 2010, 8:50 am

#9 melannen -- YES BLASPHEMOUS!!! (but we forgive you) LOL

11melannen
Ott 12, 2010, 9:25 am

You're just jealous that I have half my walls wallpapered in maps. :P

12thorold
Ott 12, 2010, 9:29 am

>6 oregonobsessionz:,8

Of course, MapThing would have a tool for geotagging your maps and a map-based catalogue view where you could see your collection by geographical coverage...

I've still got plenty to catalogue when I get around to it: a big box of (mostly) British and Swiss topo maps from pre-ISBN days and another box of assorted out of date road maps, walking maps, town plans, bus and rail maps, aeronautical charts, inland waterways maps,...

13aulsmith
Ott 12, 2010, 9:55 am

Many big research libraries have maps in their catalogs, so you might not have to do manual entry. Though the searching could take more time than the data entry; maps tend to not have really unique titles.

14Garp83
Ott 12, 2010, 12:04 pm

#11 melannen -- you are so right! It's not fair dammit!!!

;-D

15Noisy
Ott 12, 2010, 3:07 pm

>11 melannen:, 14

I'm jealous as well. A friend keeps on telling me to get my walls painted - I think your solution is far better!

16DaynaRT
Ott 12, 2010, 3:53 pm

My walls are covered with maps too. I've lived this way since my National Geographic subscription started in my early teens.

I always have something new to look at.

17thorold
Ott 13, 2010, 5:06 am

>11 melannen:,14,16
When I moved a couple of years ago, I took down my bookcases and discovered all sorts of maps I'd completely forgotten about, still pinned to the walls behind them. Given that the same thing is likely to happen in the new flat as the bookshelves multiply, I haven't bothered to hang any maps up. But I agree, maps are much more interesting to look at on your walls than reproductions of old posters or photographs of relatives...

18melannen
Ott 13, 2010, 3:09 pm

16 > Mine are actually literally wallpapered, with paste and everything. Which means most of 'em are between ten and twenty years old (since the last time we did any redecorating) but they are still the coolest wallpaper ever.

(Most of the recent maps, alas, are all glossy and full of fancy infographics, which makes much less effective wallpaper, so I've been hoarding the old ones when I can get them, against the next time we redecorate.

Of course, by that point all of my wallspace will probably be bookshelves anyway, so it'll be irrelevant.)

19DaynaRT
Ott 13, 2010, 3:11 pm

>18 melannen:
Yep, covered with maps. I can't live any other way.

Well maybe, but I don't feel the need to test that theory.

20Garp83
Ott 13, 2010, 4:39 pm

I have the problem that every available wall is covered with bookcases so alas I cannot hang any maps

21melannen
Ott 14, 2010, 6:37 pm

If you use the kind of bookshelves that don't have backs you can hang the maps behind the shelves and see them through the empty places on the shelves. ...of course, that implies that there is such as empty shelves.

Actually my dream is to one day have wall-to-wall bookcases with sliding panels covering the fronts; then I can make the panels out of old maps. :D

22thorold
Ott 15, 2010, 3:56 am

>20 Garp83:,21
No, I think we need a system for projecting maps onto the ceiling - I'm sure it should be possible to rig something up with a beamer, a DVD of topo-maps and a trained ant. So much more interesting than making imaginary maps from the cracks in the ceiling when you can't sleep (especially when you live in a modern building wthout any cracks in the ceiling...).

23bookblotter
Ott 15, 2010, 6:50 am

Little did I know when the thread was started that the map wallpaper folks would show up. I have always wanted a map room, though. Maps on walls, ceilings, floors under clear plastic (Bear feet only, please). Wow!

24thorold
Ott 15, 2010, 8:00 am

>23 bookblotter: Bear feet only, please

That would have to be this map: http://www.lavasurfer.com/wtp/pooh-100akermap.html

25melannen
Ott 16, 2010, 6:22 pm

>>22 thorold:: Actually, I used to have the Nat Geo maps of the Moon, Mars, the night sky, the galaxy and the universe on my ceiling!

Unfortunately I only had them up with tacks, and that doesn't work very well for any poster above a certain size. Now I just have a small-but-growing collection of kites from around the world up there. :D

26bluejw
Giu 21, 2012, 5:17 pm

Does anyone still check this list.
I am a Nat Geo map collector. It would be a fairly large effort
to list them all. I have a complete supplement collection
going back to 1905 and including all magazine, book, atlas and misc supplements.....

I have written a collecting guide if anyone is interested.

bluejw

27Garp83
Giu 21, 2012, 7:45 pm

I used to love Nat Geo maps. Now when I want to hang one I take it to Staples & get it laminated so it doesn't get destroyed by tape or tacks

28Vanye
Giu 21, 2012, 8:07 pm

#1-I see you do not have Maphead:charting the wide weird world of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings in your library yet. I am reading it right now. Check it out! 8^)