{"id":3326,"date":"2009-07-23T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2009-08-05T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T05:12:18","slug":"found-maps-license-plate-maps-of-dc-maryland-at-artomatic-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/23\/3326\/","title":{"rendered":"[Found Maps] License Plate Maps of DC &#038; Maryland at Artomatic 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianbirdart\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/ian_bird_license_plate_maps.jpg\" title=\"License Plate Maps of DC &#038; Maryland at Artomatic by Ian Bird\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>On the last day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/category\/artomatic\/\">Artomatic 2009<\/a> I decided to traverse all 9 floors and come up with a Top 100 similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/05\/24\/1404\/\">one I made last year<\/a>.  While I haven&#8217;t posted my Top 100 of Artomatic 2009 yet and frankly I am still debating on whether I&#8217;ll go through the task of coding it all, I did, however, find some maps by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianbirdart\/\">Ian Bird<\/a> that I wasn&#8217;t expecting.<\/p>\n<p>While there are already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=12856\">other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstyle.com\/gallery\/fineart\/grauman\/index.php\">people<\/a> who make <a href=\"http:\/\/licenseplatemaps.com\/\">License Plate Maps<\/a>, I like the nuanced detail of his maps (above).  Unlike the other license plate map artists, I sincerely doubt they have made a map that cartographically shows each of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_neighborhoods_of_the_District_of_Columbia_by_ward\">eight wards of Washington, DC<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_counties_in_Maryland\">each county in the state of Maryland<\/a>.  No matter what, Ian Bird is definitely going into the Top 100 (if I ever post it).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Related Found Maps:<!--more--><br \/>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/05\/25\/7599\/\">[FOUND MAP] 50+ Yard Sales in Adams Morgan<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/03\/13\/7377\/\">[FOUND MAP] The Lining of a Leather Jacket <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/07\/26\/6767\/\">WAR SIGNS IN THE STARS : Our Country's Horoscope Says There Will Be Peace - The Washington Times, April 10, 1898 <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/03\/15\/6240\/\">A T-Rex Google Map On My Neighborhood Via Twitter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/12\/16\/5348\/\">[Found Map] The 3rd District Police Station in Washington, DC<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/12\/01\/5206\/\">What the Stars Tell of The Times - The Washington Times, February 9, 1896<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/11\/28\/5123\/\">Found Propaganda Map From The Oromo Liberation Front<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/11\/26\/5086\/\">A Projected Relief Park Map of the United States - The Washington Times, March 28, 1897<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/11\/23\/4994\/\">My Accidental Geography Submission \"Gingerbread DC\" Was Featured Today on StrangeMaps<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/4816\/\">whereyouare \/ whereiam@ - A Satircal Election Map of Maine's Vote on Same-Sex Marriage<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/31\/4808\/\">A Diagrammatic Photograph Showing The American Warship, The Delaware, Blowing Up New York City<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/30\/4799\/\">[FOUND MAP] The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, The Younger (1533)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/29\/4770\/\">Randle Highlands VS Fort Dupont [Antique Overlay of an Anacostia Alternative Future]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/23\/4717\/\">[FOUND MAP] The Masthead Map of the San Mateo Item Newspaper<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/09\/23\/4321\/\">Map of Teacher Starting Salary vs. Annual Amount Spent on Inmates<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/09\/09\/4100\/\">Map Tattoo: The State of Maryland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/08\/28\/3882\/\">\"NO\" - Found Cartographic Typography<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/08\/25\/3834\/\">Map of the Indigenous Languages of North America<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/08\/10\/3590\/\">Groupon.com is illegally using my map \"DC Stencil\" for a Facebook advertisement<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/23\/3326\/\">[Found Maps] License Plate Maps of DC & Maryland at Artomatic 2009<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/19\/3310\/\">Before & After Aerial Photographs of Ground Zero in Nagasaki, Japan<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/18\/3306\/\">[FOUND MAP] Dear WMATA, is it called the Hirshhorn Gallery or Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/11\/3192\/\">Note to the cartographers at the New York Times: the Red Line goes into Maryland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/10\/3184\/\">[FOUND MAP] Isola d'Elba aka the Island of Elba<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/09\/3183\/\">[Found Map] Topographic window sign at Current Lounge & Sushi Restaurant<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/07\/06\/3150\/\">Unique Maps of Iraq in the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/06\/23\/3087\/\">The aerial photography of the area around the Metro crash site contains a Metro train<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/21\/2827\/\">The Craig Retroazimuthal Projection aka the Mecca Projection<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/03\/27\/2723\/\">World Wildlife Fund's Zoomorphic Fantasy Maps<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/03\/01\/2464\/\">Nixon Sends GIs Into Cambodia And An Inverted 1970 Map of Communist Controlled Laos and Cambodia <\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/02\/28\/2449\/\">Thomas Jefferson's Map of Washington from March 31st, 1791<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/02\/20\/2412\/\">The Peters Projection advocated on the West Wing television show<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/12\/26\/1922\/\">The 11 Mile Canyon Dam<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/12\/24\/1896\/\">[FOUND MAP] New York City: The 51st State<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/12\/16\/1761\/\">The American Flag in a 51 Star Configuration with One Star Removed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/12\/10\/1661\/\">Geospatial art created by exploiting search engine aggregation algorithms<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/11\/20\/1571\/\">Found in the Grand Juxtaposition: I am not a terrorist in Tucson<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/10\/31\/1540\/\">She's got the sole of the city with SWIMS galoshes<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/10\/23\/1529\/\">You're A Nation!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/26\/1507\/\">Kiss My Art, Just Kiss It<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/25\/1506\/\">The Geography of Personality Interactive Map<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/12\/1497\/\">Federico Aubele's Anthropomorphic Map of Panamericana<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/06\/1493\/\">The Adidas World Map and the Adidas Map of the Western Hemisphere<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/04\/1490\/\">Wasilla, Alaska is literally off the map, the Google Map that is<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/04\/1489\/\">A New & Somewhat Accurate Map of the Tropic of Gemini and the Tropic of Sagittarius<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/08\/27\/1481\/\">Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Two<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/08\/25\/1479\/\">My Weekend in Photos [8\/22-8\/24]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/08\/16\/1469\/\">A World Map Sign @ the A N M Market & Deli in the Atlas District<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/08\/09\/1460\/\">Photos from last night's \"Quart Bag\" exhibition @ the Civilian Art Projects<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/28\/1337\/\">Lost in a hairy bush?  Use a map! - Or just a razor instead...<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/25\/1329\/\">My first jury duty experience; Courthouse needs more art<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/1323\/\">The National Gruntledness Index<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/21\/1291\/\">Map of the Languages of Europe<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/07\/10\/1087\/\">A new change in Washington, DC's imagery on Google's servers<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/445\/\">Map of American Casualties<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/11\/323\/\">geographic dimensions of spam<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of Artomatic 2009 I decided to traverse all 9 floors and come up with a Top 100 similar to the one I made last year. While I haven&#8217;t posted my Top 100 of Artomatic 2009 yet and frankly I am still debating on whether I&#8217;ll go through the task of coding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,21,498,56,223,431],"tags":[7962,5702,8002,2405,1773,424,6872,2404],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artomatic","category-dc","category-found-map","category-location","category-maryland","category-photography","tag-artomatic","tag-dc","tag-found-map","tag-ian-bird","tag-license-plate","tag-map","tag-maryland","tag-wards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":588,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}