When the 2005 USGS aerial photography was released to the public in the spring of 2007 there were a few places that were censored through pixilation. On this blog I documented how the White House was censored. I documented how the U.S. Capitol was censored. And I even experimented with a QR-Code to show that the Washington Monument was censored. After doing some exploration within the newly obtained 2008 Washington, DC orthophotography, I discovered that the White House and the U.S. Capitol are STILL censored.
However, now that the construction of the new visitors center at the Washington Monument has been completed, which is the reason, I am told, why the Washington Monument was originally censored in the 2005 imagery, the imagery of the monument is now available without pixilation. Moreover, its the exact same imagery that is being used on Google Maps. While I expect to showcase the censorship of the White House & U.S. Capitol in some future entries, I decided to make make my first map of this new dataset of the Washington Monument because I wasn’t able to make it using the last batch of imagery.
To construct this map, I first rendered a full-size Hexagon Quilt Projection map using the original imagery, then sampled a portion of the resulting map, and used the sampled portion to create this derivative map. I chose to sample the portion in the first map because of two underlying aspects of the map. First, I really liked the way the shadows of the Washington Monument combined together. Secondly, I liked the way the apex of the Washington Monument was combined (see detail below) to create a pyramid. Over the years I have enjoyed playing with the notion of aerial & architectural chiaroscuro, as in, using shadows generated by buildings within the original aerial photography to create a new, larger shadow. This map embodies this ongoing design element perfectly.
View the Google Map of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
View the rest of the details:
Related National Mall Entries:
- A Projected Relief Park Map of the United States - The Washington Times, March 28, 1897
- Washington Monument Quilt #2
- National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt [COMMISSIONED MAP]
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- [Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #4 / Drafts #7 & #8
- [Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #3 / Drafts #5 & #6
- [Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt – Tessellation #2 / Drafts #3 & #4
- [Commissioned Map] National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Quilt - Tessellation #1 / Drafts #1 & #2
- [FOUND MAP] Dear WMATA, is it called the Hirshhorn Gallery or Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden?
- YouTube video of Former president George Bush booed at the Inauguration of Barack Obama
- How I made it inside of the Silver ticket area at the 2009 Inauguration
- Geoeye satellite image showing where I was located at the 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama
- Two photos from the We Are One concert on the National Mall
- The National Archives Cross
- Hallway view of the first edition of the New & Arabesque Map of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- A New & Arabesque Map of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- Hirshhorn Quilt
- Libertarians make a misguided political statement at the Jefferson Memorial
- Geovisual QR Code
- National MSM of the American Indian on Google Maps; Why truncate the word Museum?
- Comparative Front Pages: Washington Post / Philadelphia Inquirer
- FOUND: Penis Route on the National Mall
- Lincoln Memorial Quilt 2005 #2
- Lincoln Memorial Quilt 2005
- Washington Monument Quilt
- NewOrLincoln
- Lincoln Memorial Quilt #2
- Lincoln Memorial Quilt
- Me, Maui, Mall Mandala
- Jefferson Sparks
- Boxes of Jefferson
- Self-Portrait
- Sensors Spatial Analysis of Tularemia on the National Mall
- Knot the National Mall
- Washington Monument Zoom
- Mall Mountain
- DC Mandala
- Jefferson Mandala - 2nd derivative
- Jefferson Mandala
- Mall Quilt
- Jefferson Lenz
- My first corporate commission
- Washington Monument Lenz
- DC Molecule
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- Mentioned Today On The Huffington Post Concerning Facebook's Censorship of Advertisements Related To Cannabis
- Washington Monument Quilt #2
- Dear WashingtonPost.com: Either You Are Censoring Bloggers Or Your 3rd Party Widget Isn't Working Properly
- Where did Google's video rankings go?
- Google FINALLY updates the imagery of Washington, DC and now you can kinda see the message on my rooftop
- An Odd DC Indymedia Edit
- Google Street View of Washington, DC suffers from out-dated imagery
- View of a House Party Censored By Colored Dots
- Interviews with Alex Jones at the DNC in Denver and other videos
- One year later and Google Maps has still not updated DC
- First Amendment Violation in Lafayette Park yesterday; ACLU contacted
- Experimenting with Facebook's advertisement system [part 4 - Fvck Censorship]
- What the Artomatic 2008 venue looked like in March of 2005
- Geovisual QR Code
- The first Artomatic prints have arrived
- White House Peace
- Indirectly referenced in the Sydney Morning News?
- MyGoogleMaps : Google's Censorship Perimeter
- 3D Buildings at the expense of newer imagery?
- Google's View of D.C. Melds New and Sharp, Old and Fuzzy - Washington Post
- A new change in Washington, DC's imagery on Google's servers
- Comparative Meta-Data of the USGS Orthoimagery of Washington, DC - 2002 / 2005
- The White House is Off-Limits to the Public: An Exploration of Censorship's Perimeter
- The U.S. Capitol is Off-Limits to the Public: An Exploration of Censorship's Perimeter
- Censored today in theMail...
- Baghdad Imagery change in Google Earth
- I'm off google
- Redacted Flag
- Censorship on the 4th of July
- U.S. Naval Observatory Lenz #2
- U.S. Naval Observatory Lenz
- The Inaugural Map & January 6th
