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Mapping, Hashtag Carte, Hashtag Mappe, Hashtag Cool Maps: Instagram Map Exhibit in Bracken Library
As
of April 2017, the popular photo-sharing application Instagram has a total of over 700 million registered users. Colorful maps can be a fun and unique subject
for sharing, so the GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) in Bracken Library
has created a special exhibit dedicated to “Insta-worthy maps.”
The
exhibit (above, click to enlarge) features 36 different cartographic images—all
in the traditional square Instagram format.
Some of the maps are hand-drawn by Ball State University or Burris
Elementary School students; some of the maps are from atlases or art books
featuring maps; and some of the images feature objects made to look like maps or vice versa—like
steak or bacon, a shark, the state of California as a cigarette, or a pile of laundry.
The
exhibit will be featured in the front windows of the GRMC on the second floor
of Bracken Library through the month of June.
Stop by to view these artistic maps or—better yet—visit the GRMC to snap
some Instagram-worthy photos of some of the over 140,000 maps in the
Collection.
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