Quotes About Mapping

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

He studied the stars, and guided his caravans across mountains and deserts by tracing his route in the sky.

At one point he had covered more than seven tenths of the earth's surface.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located, but more importantly, where they are not.

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

I have flown the distance of your body from side to side of your ivory coast. I know the forests where I can rest and feed. I have mapped you with my naked eye and stored you out of sight. The millions of cells that make up your tissues are plotted on my retina. Night flying I know exactly where I am. Your body is my landing strip.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Obviously the fuel mapping pace is a lot of what happens with your strategy, whether you choose to go full rich or not.

The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

I suppose I'm the one who's going to be figuring out where we are and how to get back?" I asked. "That's right, Dora. You're the map.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

scanning all compass points

Finding and Fixing the "Hidden Factory" 1.?Map out your existing process step by step from beginning to end. 2.?Map common workarounds in case of problems. 3.?Optimize your process and involve end users. 4.?Confirm that the new processes are more efficient and improve results for end users.

The power of collective memory does not lie in its accurate, systematic, or sophisticated mapping of the past, but in establishing basic images that articulate and reinforce a particular ideological stance.

And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture at large, within a culture women offset the ideal.

Nollie's having plotted their course with her fleX GPS turned out to be unnecessary. The directions all the way to the Nevada border at Wendover, Utah, came down to: "cross George Washington Bridge, then turn right.

How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.