Andrew Middleton
@mapcenter.com
'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
I was thinking I might do some local workshops on using scanned maps to do georeferencing on. I'll give this a try.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I was thinking I might do some local workshops on using scanned maps to do georeferencing on. I'll give this a try.
Dr. Sylvia Earle reviewed it and said it was really good. Dr Dawn Wright has a copy and she liked it. You can borrow one for yourself from the Hopkins Marine Lab library at Stanford.
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Dr. Sylvia Earle reviewed it and said it was really good. Dr Dawn Wright has a copy and she liked it. You can borrow one for yourself from the Hopkins Marine Lab library at Stanford.
You can! One day I'll have an embossing machine so those notations will be legible to the visually impaired.
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
You can! One day I'll have an embossing machine so those notations will be legible to the visually impaired.
Oh I absolutely do. I laminate stuff to foam core panels and sell map pins. It ends up looking a bit too clean though.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
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November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Oh I absolutely do. I laminate stuff to foam core panels and sell map pins. It ends up looking a bit too clean though.
I think I recognize Craig Hospital in that shot?
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I think I recognize Craig Hospital in that shot?
Surprisingly hard to nail down but I'm working on it. I created a new LLC to take over the store just a couple years ago so I'm the territory of describing a spiritual succession rather than a legal or physical one anyway.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Surprisingly hard to nail down but I'm working on it. I created a new LLC to take over the store just a couple years ago so I'm the territory of describing a spiritual succession rather than a legal or physical one anyway.
Clearly I'm researching live and that's dumb. The EdExCo pamphlet was written by Gardner T Swarts JUNIOR, it was his dad who was the public health hero. Harder to find information on our map making friend there but it seems the apple doesn't land far from the tree.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Clearly I'm researching live and that's dumb. The EdExCo pamphlet was written by Gardner T Swarts JUNIOR, it was his dad who was the public health hero. Harder to find information on our map making friend there but it seems the apple doesn't land far from the tree.
Gardner T Swarts was a public health crusader; he ran the RI Health Department during the Progressive era, cleaning up food and bogus medicine schemes as a contemporary of Upton Sinclair and those folks. Still not finding more of a connection between him and EdExCo rimed.org/rimedicaljou...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Gardner T Swarts was a public health crusader; he ran the RI Health Department during the Progressive era, cleaning up food and bogus medicine schemes as a contemporary of Upton Sinclair and those folks. Still not finding more of a connection between him and EdExCo rimed.org/rimedicaljou...
This reminds me: I have to start stocking flags
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This reminds me: I have to start stocking flags
The author of the that article is Gardner T Swarts of Providence who was a renowned doctor and public health official in MA and RI, being something of a pioneer in modern medicine. He is buried in Swan Point Cemetery. rhodeislandgenealogy.com/providence/b...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The author of the that article is Gardner T Swarts of Providence who was a renowned doctor and public health official in MA and RI, being something of a pioneer in modern medicine. He is buried in Swan Point Cemetery. rhodeislandgenealogy.com/providence/b...
Those were primitive days, before Living Atlas and US Census Bureau TIGER boundaries.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Those were primitive days, before Living Atlas and US Census Bureau TIGER boundaries.
EdExCo produced mylars of state boundaries that were shipped across the country so they could be traced and incorporated into new maps. This is from an Ohio state University thesis about the Hocking Valley coal industry.
etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_e...
etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_e...
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
EdExCo produced mylars of state boundaries that were shipped across the country so they could be traced and incorporated into new maps. This is from an Ohio state University thesis about the Hocking Valley coal industry.
etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_e...
etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_e...
Oh, just kidding. I thought read somewhere that Metsker Maps in Seattle was from the early fifties but they were incorporated in 1901 so they take the cake. "*on the East Coast" remains.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh, just kidding. I thought read somewhere that Metsker Maps in Seattle was from the early fifties but they were incorporated in 1901 so they take the cake. "*on the East Coast" remains.
From the American Journal of Public Health, a book review cautiously praising ExEdCo in their data visualization work around health, hygiene and epidemiology.
John Snow, eat your heart out.
John Snow, eat your heart out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
From the American Journal of Public Health, a book review cautiously praising ExEdCo in their data visualization work around health, hygiene and epidemiology.
John Snow, eat your heart out.
John Snow, eat your heart out.