Modélisation numérique de la surface terrestre souvent réaliste construite pour se localiser, naviguer ou simplement se promener et contempler la beauté et la fragilité du monde. La plupart du temps l’usage d’un globe virtuel reste assez proche de la surface terrestre. Si le point de vue s’éloigne suffisamment pour que l’on perçoive la Terre comme un sphère, voir « Globe ».
Digital modeling of the Earth’s surface, often realistic, created for locating oneself, navigating, or simply wandering around and contemplating the beauty and fragility of the world. Most of the time, the use of a virtual globe remains fairly close to the Earth’s surface. If the viewpoint moves far enough away for the Earth to be perceived as a sphere, see “Globe.”
En 2015, Thomas Clerc a écrit Intérieur, un essai romanesque, pour lequel l’auteur revendique l’héritage de Georges Perec./\In 2015, Thomas Clerc wrote Intérieur, a novel essay, for which the author claims the legacy of Georges Perec.
Utiliser Google Earth pour retrouver son village natal /\ Using Google Earth to try to find his native village
The temporary exhibition « Revoir Paris » held on 20 November 2014 to 9 March 2015, offers the opportunity to engage a dialog between the work of François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, cartoonists, writers and screenwriters, with the one of Jules Verne, Robida or Le Corbusier, and, on the other hand, with development projects in Paris and…
Chinese puzzle, the latest film by Cédric Klapisch is certainly not the first film to put Google Maps on screen. We did not attempt a systematic inventory of the Google map service apparitions in movies, but in 2010 Where are the Morgans? already used a sort of fake of Google Maps. Chinese puzzle may be…
Donjon is a series of satirical fantasy comic books created and supervised by two famous French artists, Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim. Many other talented designers have contributed to this collective work: Manu Larcenet, Christophe Blain, Blutch or Andreas. The world of the series is extremely complex and changing, and the question of mapping this…
« A girl is trapped in the map and desperately needs your help to escape. Have you got what it takes to navigate her out of this dangerous photographic maze. The clock is ticking. » This is the pitch for an advertisment campain that was organized in 2011 by Mercedes around a interactive commercial produced by an…
Just a short notice about an update of the post « Did you hear about the Morgans ». The Making Of on the DVD gives more information about the map of Google that appears in the movie. Une simple annonce à propos du billet sur « Où sont passés les Morgan » dont le contenu a été actualisé grâce…
With the release of their new album The Suburbs and the beginning of their new concert tour, the Montreal band Arcade Fire offers an interesting geospatial and interactive experience. By entering a place of your choice on the site, ideally your childhood home address, you generate a custom clip based on images from Google Maps…
M (dir. Fritz Lang 1931) tells the story of a serial killer who preys on children in 1930s Berlin, and who is on the run from police and an organized crime syndicate. The film begins with the murder of Elsie, the eighth child to be murdered. At the crime scene police find a paper bag…
A really great idea ! Luke Lewis locates famous Rock ‘n’ roll album sleeves with Google Street View and begins a musical mapping of London. Une très jolie idée de Luke Lewis : localiser sur Google Street View les albums des groupes des années 60 et proposer ainsi un début de lever cartographique musical de…
A picture is worth a thousand words says the favorite adage of people working with images. The two first pages of the novel The Betrothed (in Italian I Promessi sposi) by Alexandro Manzoni published in 1825, could illustrate this adage since they could be summarized with a map like this one. This novel starts with…
Google Maps appears in Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first time that Google Maps appears in a literary work. If you have an earlier example, please write us a comment. Of course Google Maps doesn’t play a central role in the book. Google Maps appears in two…
(e)space & fiction 