maps - where I am and where I've been

Tara Pattenden is working on a mapping project (see below) and has asked for some maps - especially hand drawn ones, so I found a couple of my (tourist/hotel) travel maps from different cities. maybe not exactly what she's after, but here are the scans I sent her (& msg)

Tara's mapping project message -
http://www.schmelfhelp.co.uk (contact page on her site if anyone else wants to contribute) 

I am working on a project based on hand drawn maps - the kind that someone draws you for directions 
or perhaps a travel guide of sorts..
Once realised the project will form an web based atlas - a kind of google maps made from hand drawn 
maps - totally inaccurate and scribbled.
For the project I need hundreds of hand drawn maps.. hundreds!!! well whatever I can get.

So firstly if you have any maps lying around - i would love it if you can either scan and email or post 
them to me.
Secondly I would like to kick start the project by asking you to draw directions to a particular place 
- if you can do this for me it would be great.

I used to keep this map in my wallet so it's very tatty. I have a fresh one too (without tears/writing) if you'd rather that. it's the tourist map from the hotel. I usually get the maps for the first couple of weeks to work out directions and relationships of the different suburbs to each other when I see street signs. but then I'm ok without them. I like not knowing where I am sometimes - it's when I discover some cool things/places that aren't on the (tourist) 'maps'. at the gps workshop (mentioned below) I remember one of the women asked me how I coped with so much travel and not knowing where I was all the time. I didn't really understand what she meant as I like this feeling - I guess some people have to know exactly where they are at all times?

I usually record gps track points for different walks / drives too - I can add them to a map if they're of interest.
I did a 'gps drawing' workshop once at the isle of wight and since then I try capture the trackpoints when I remember.

a few of the gps drawings

http://www.aliak.com/search/node/gps - has some gps / maps articles in the blog (+ other gps articles mixed in) - some in UK, AUS, INDIA, ISRAEL, NEW ZEALAND

(though some of these used a kml plugin on drupal/my site which I didn't reinstall after an upgrade so they might not show the maps anymore. I should fix this one day)

below are some of the drawings if the links don't work in the other blog posts

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some gpx drawings - made by gpsvisualizer.com (& my gps/gpx trackpoints) :


ashkelon drive via gpsvisualizer.com


dead sea drive via gpsvisualizer.com


israel, india, australia via gpsvisualizer.com


old city of Jerusalem (sound) walk - via gpsvisualizer.com
blog post & sound recording of sound walk


I think this is in delhi, india - via gpsvisualizer.com


uk, india, australia, new zealand - 2006 : via gpsvisualizer.com


chandlers ford to shirley - the drive home from work, 24/02/2005, UK : via gpsvisualizer.com

Submitted by AliaK on Sat, 2009-03-14 13:01
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Ventura Film Festival

Submitted by venturafilmfestival on Sat, 2009-03-21 01:17.

The Ventura Film Festival, which was started in 2004 by Jordan Older and his father, has recently concluded its

first event of 2009 at the Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, California with the Ventura Film Festival "Fun Day"

on February 16, 2009 at 2pm.

The Ventura Film Festival is a combination online and traditional film festival requiring all submissions to be

uploaded online and submitted via traditional means. The Ventura Film Festival has maintained that one of it's main

goals is to give a large part of any proceeds to forest and ocean preservation efforts. The Ventura Film Festival

features independent films from around the world and from local film makers focusing on environmental issues such as

forest and ocean preservation, humanitarian issues, surf, skate, extreme/action sports, sports, martial arts, and

music films.

The Ventura Film Festival opened it’s 2009 events on Monday February 16, 2009 at the Majestic Ventura Theater in

Ventura, California with a “fun day”. The event marked the 6th anniversary of the Ventura Film Festival which was

started by Jordan Older and his father in 2004. The Ventura Film Festival board of directors were present to show

their selection of currently received entries for the 2009 Ventura Film Festival. The festival board includes

Hollywood film makers Dustin Dean and U.S. Olympian John Godina who is the most decorated shot putter in U.S.

athletics history. Ventura Film Festival is a green organization and accepts entries and submissions online at the

festival’s official web site, http://venturafilmfestival.org. Part of the profits from the Ventura Film Festival

will go directly towards environmental issues such as forest and ocean preservation. The “fun day” served as a warm

up for the main event of the 2009 Ventura Film Festival which takes place on July 5th.

The Ventura Film Festival gives out no awards. We prefer not to have competition and to simply celibrate great

films as works of art and enjoy a fun event that provides support for environmental issues such as forest and ocean

preservation. From time to time we may give notice of special recognition to certain films.

The Ventura Film Festival has become a partner with the world's biggest film festival marketing organization

Withoutabox. The partnership was on request of Withoutabox executive Sara Nixon-Kershner on Feburary 18, 2008.

Withoutabox provides submission and marketing service to over 200,000 filmmakers in 200 countries as well as manage

submission receiving, judging, and notification, schedule publishing, and the ability to sell tickets using targeted

ads on well known film site IMDB.

Submitting to the Ventura Film Festival is a two step process. BOTH STEPS ARE REQUIRED!!!

1) upload your submission to http://venturafilmfestival.net (REQUIRED)

2) Submit via Withoutabox using this link: http://www.withoutabox.com/login/7761 (REQUIRED)
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Submissions that are not uploaded to http://venturafilmfestival.net will not be considered.

thanks for your post about the film festival

Submitted by AliaK on Sun, 2009-04-26 17:57.

thanks for your post about the film festival
I've made a blog post for it - this makes it easier to be searched / found
http://www.aliak.com/content/ventura-film-festival