The historical implications of rubber sheeting..

For my rubber sheeting assignment in History and Cartography (see previous post) I chose to look at Lexington Park, MD.  I spend two days a week in this little community in St. Mary’s Country, Maryland as it’s the home of the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, which I’m currently the Acting Director of.  I hated [...]

It can’t be this easy…I must be doing something wrong…

…was the line that kept going through my head this weekend as I did the rubber sheeting project. Nothing in Prof. P’s class is ever easy for me (well, Photoshop was kinda easy, but only because I’ve worked with that for a decade) so I threw myself into this project hoping it would only [...]

cars, planes and aircraft carriers…

I’m back home…finally!  After a grueling week and a half in San Diego (I know, I shouldn’t be complaining…it was beautiful and sunny the entire time I was there) I made it back at about 3 am this morning an extension of what was only a week long conference to troubleshoot a problem at another [...]

preliminary mapping assignment

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The Illustrator Map that I created for this assignment was done from Commodore Joshua Barney’s map of the battle of St. Leonard’s Creek during the War of 1812. As you can see from the original, there’s more to the map. As I spent 15 hours working on just the portion you see though, I decided [...]

mapping as a way to avoid doing the budgets

So I finally got Natural Scene Designer the other day, and while I wish I had the time to play with it just a little more, I did bring my laptop into work so my two co-workers could “ohhhh” and “ahhhhh” at all the fun tricks I can do now with map (I conveniently left [...]