Archive - Aug 13, 2004
Creating political maps
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/13/2004 - 10:50Recently, I’ve been interested in using computers to generate maps for political purposes. Folks from CCAG helped train me in using ArcView. ArcView is a very impressive mapping program. It is very powerful, and hence very complicated. I’ve used it to produce turf maps like this.. I still feel as if I’ve barely scratched the surface. I am hoping to see some integration between mapping software and projects such as CivicSpace or Advokit
About patriotism...
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/13/2004 - 09:21A recurring theme I've been running into is taking back patriotism. Samuel Johnson's quote, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" has often been brought up. Many people claim that his barb was really aimed at those false patriots who equate patriotism with their specific political philosophy.
On one mailing list, I sent this as my reply discussions about flag waving at the Democractic National Convention:
