Edinburgh Creative Map

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Edinburgh is the latest creative map to be rendered, vism.ag/edinburgh. Mapped in collaboration with creative-edinburgh.com launching Thursday 3rd November, 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT.

 



 



Identified as one of the 9 creative 'hotspots' in the UK by Nesta, this location has some great places on offer. From Edinburgh printmakers studio, Analogue Books, The Fruitmarket Gallery @fruitmarket to round the corner Stills photography gallery, there appears to be a lot of bustling creativity that the platform of creative-edinburgh.com @CreativeEdin will be sure to promote and keep you abreast of its output both nationally and internationally.



Creative Maps share knowledge of creative facilities in the world, or more specifically Edinburgh's area to help you in your creative and innovative endeavors.

Be it Galleries, Museums, Theaters, Bookshops, Arts Centers, Magazines, Studios, Design Companies, Craft Shops

 

Nearby on Thursday 3rd November, go check it out 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT



 

Check out the interactive map to see all the locations on Edinburgh's Creative Map vism.ag/edinburgh



 

Know any places in Edinburgh that aren't mapped? Sign up and add your own through vism.ag/sharegems



 

More info: @CreativeEdin



 



Poetry Atlas

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When I started creative maps, I discussed with my colleague it would be good to show learners what poetry there was about their area to try and get them engaged with a range of creative inspiration and outlets. Behold I came across this:



 

 



Poetry has been geographically mapped with Poetry Atlas, not as clean and clear as the well presented HistoryView (Pin) those quill markers are just a bit too overpowering. But the info windows etc are equally great and like history pin it has accumulated quite a few writings about areas. They've even made a layar app or AR reality, as I would love to have ;o). They also to their credit make it really easy to explore their site searching location, browsing poems/ poets. Very Good.



  http://www.poetryatlas.com/



Let the words of inspiration flow through your mind about your places, I experimented with this.



 

 

HistoryView

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This looks great. Google maps and history merged into one. I wondered about how we merge the old and the new somehow.

 

I am keen to do old historical street maps overlayed on top of interactive google, try to bring a spice of art with the idea of collaging like Mercato previous post.

 

  But its free, it has pretty good clustering of pins as you zoom in and drill down the data so it doesn't become crowded like it could do. From the group We are what we Do, who bring you the beautiful Change the world for a fiver book talking about going green.

Also with it being supported by google you can sign up with your google details quite easily.

http://www.historypin.com/

http://wearewhatwedo.org/