Gaza damage assessment overview // UNOSAT // link // The Map Collection

UNOSAT is a program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), providing satellite imagery & related geographic information, research and analysis to UN humanitarian & development agencies & their implementing partners.

This map presents a satellite-based damage assessment for the Gaza Strip following the January ceasefires. Damages have been summarized by the type damage detected and by their estimated occurrence per governorate.

Kronikkenes by II - Tromsø 2040 #2

Nordlys åpner i en periode fremover kronikksidene for tekster om forskning innen energi, marine ressurser, kultur, næring og utvikling i nordområdene. Peter Holm og Bjørn Eirik Olsen's kronikk om Marin sektor frem mot 2040, tirsdag 26.5 er den andre i denne serien.

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // Appearing and disappearing Landscapes

"The landscape is not focused until it becomes “necessary" to do so, and in this respect is not prepared for the future. The present map proposes to develop a new legend that seeks to enlighten the shadow. The landscape must be prepared for and resist the next leap by remaining the superior space in an unforeseeable future. This will force an aesthetics which will have to operate on a large scale, and which must deal with more temporal than the constructed world."
D&U ONLINE PAPERS // Appearing and disappearing Landscapes

The Helsinki Tampere Visions 1993

NATURBASE // link // The Map Collection

Naturbase er et kartbasert innsyn som viser data om natur og friluftsliv som Direktoratet for naturforvaltning (DN) har registrert. Dataene er samlet inn av kommunene, fylkesmennene, Sysselmannen på Svalbard, sektormyndigheter, Norsk Polarinstitutt (NP) og DN.

Du får opp et kart over Norge og Svalbard når du starter Naturbase.

Her har jeg zoomet meg inn til Sortlandssundet og Sigerfjorden hvor skal feriere et par uker i sommer.

Naturbase er et supert verktøy og inneholder data om :
Områder som er vernet, eller foreslått vernet, etter naturvernloven, Svalbardloven, Svalbardmiljøloven og viltloven // Naturtyper og arter som er viktige for å opprettholde mangfoldet i naturen. // Arter som har spesiell betydning for jakt og annen høsting. // Kulturlandskap med viktige biologiske og/eller kulturhistoriske verdier. // Friluftslivsområder som er sikret for allmenn bruk ved at staten har kjøpt dem eller skaffet seg spesielle rettigheter i dem. // Motorferdselsreguleringer, reinsjaktområder, ilandstigningsplasser m.m. på Svalbard.

I Sverige finnes en naturkartbase organisert av lansstyrelsene, for Skåne heter den Naturguiden med viewer.
Den tilsvarende naturkartbasen for Danmark er: Miljøportalen med arealinfo.

Turliv på yttersia // The Map Collection

På Bent Svinnung's interaktive kart som finner du lenker til noen av hans favorittplasser, fra Helgelandskysten til yttersia av Troms, samt en del informasjon om beliggenhet, tilgjengelighet, praktiske tips, historikk. Jeg har stor glede av å klikke på de hvite punktene på dette kartet og studere turbeskrivelser og se fantastiske bilder. Yttersida av Troms er et eldorado for dem som bedriver turliv, uansett om framdriften skjer med åre, seil, motor eller beina. Masse rullesteinsfjærer, sandstrender, holmer og skjær, egger og vegger. Nok til å ta pusten fra de aller mest blaserte.
Turliv på Yttersia,

A walk through H // link // The Map Collection

"A walk through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist " by Peter Greenaway is a 40-minute abstracted journey film, told almost entirely through the use of a series of 92 maps, - A friend of mine showed me this short film when I was studying architecture at BAS in early nineties and it is still one of my favourites. The film is "set" entirely in the world of "H," which is represented only by Tulse Luper's maps, sprinkled with occasionally intercuts with images of birds and sunsets. The panning along the paper surfaces of the imaginary maps is intriguingly fascinating and so is the narrator’s absurd dry voice describing how he came to possess each of these maps, and what his journey is like.
At the official website, petergreenaway.org.uk you can read Greenaway’s own idea about A Walk through H: "I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going - in a sense it's three tenses in one. It's also an amazing ideogram of information that is very useful and, perhaps most pertinently, also not at all useful. My father had recently died, and the subtitle of the film was 'The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist' - my father was one. Through his life he had amassed an extraordinary amount of information about bird study, and I was very aware that with his death - as indeed with any death - a vast amount of very personalized information had gone missing, was totally irrecoverable. The film is on the journey a soul takes at the moment of death, to whatever other place it ends up - H being either Heaven or Hell. I devised 92 maps to help this particular character get there. The whole film was divided into five sections that represented movement from a very urban landscape to a wilderness landscape, and there were references and cross-references to all sorts of systems."

Follow this link to A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist

Most complete Earth map published // link // The Map Collection

A new global digital elevation model covers 99 percent of the Earth’s landmass to a resolution of 30 metres. The terrain map is based on imagery from the Japanese ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite.

From NASA’s press release: "This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world," said Woody Turner, Aster program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This unique global set of data will serve users and researchers from a wide array of disciplines that need elevation and terrain information." According to Mike Abrams, Aster science team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the new topographic information will be of value throughout the Earth sciences and has many practical applications. "Aster's accurate topographic data will be used for engineering, energy exploration, conserving natural resources, environmental management, public works design, firefighting, recreation, geology and city planning, to name just a few areas," Abrams said.

At the press release you'll also find links to visualizations of the new Aster topographic data, and you can download the Aster global digital elevation model at WIST and at ASTER GDEM .
I found information about GDEM at The Map Room, Jonathan Crowe's intriguing and daily updated blog about maps.

RADIO RADIO

Kai Sibbern i Verdibørsen, P2s magasin for etikk og livssyn har lest Knut Eirik Dahls leder i tidsskriftet Marg om byen, med tittelen Byen under press, og har tent på denne. Idag intervjuet han Knut Eirik i 15-20 minutter som sendes i helgen. Marg er ute av trykkeriet i dag!

Verdibørsen sendes i NRK P2, lørdag 23.5. kl. 8.05 og på samme kanal søndag 24.5. kl. 17.03. Etterpå ligger det ute på nettradioen og kan lastes ned som pod-cast. Verdibørsen er P2-programmet om verdispørsmål i vår tid: Såvel etiske, moralske som filosofiske og religiøse sider av livssyn og samfunnsliv presenteres og drøftes iløpet av de 55 minutter lange sendingene hver helg. Ved Kai Sibbern og Aase Cathrine Myrtveit.

Bildet fra flyktningeleiren Bourj el-Barajneh i Beirut, Libanon, er hentet fra Lene E. Westerås' fortelling om SYNLIGE BYER som kan leses i Marg.

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // The Magic Carpet

"The urban ideals loom larger than the understanding of landscape, shining far more brightly as it were. The borders of urban space constitute an intellectual hinterland. The relation between what is built and the continued life of the landscape is destined to remain the major theme in the civic space of the future...."
D&U ONLINE PAPERS // The Magic Carpet, 1994

In 1994 we participated in the international competition for the expansion of Copenhagen, called Ørestaden. The project received the second prize in the competition. The idea universe of the project is duly published in the periodical "byplan" No. 5, 95. Through the presentation of the project's own text and a comprehensive critical review of the competition by Professor Jens Kvorning (jury member). The concept launched "The Game of Ørestaden" by setting up the structure plans as a set of playing pieces, in which different forces of change led to entirely different interpretations of this future urban landscape. The current development in Copenhagen, where other areas have come into the searchlight and are taking power from the "ideal" Ørestaden, confirms one of our statements in the competition - "The spirit of the place is bound to be found elsewhere".

D&U ONLINE PAPERS

This week we will start a new series at the blog: D&U ONLINE PAPERS. Here we will make available a selection of texts, papers and lectures for download.