“I’ve always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going — in a sense it’s three tenses in one.”

— Peter Greenaway (Welsh filmmaker)

Greenaway boasts what is arguably the most playful c.v. of any major living director, overflowing with visual puns, mathematical puzzles and imaginary languages. He’s obsessed with lists, maps and all manner of taxonomic tools that humans have designed to make sense of a chaotic world (that’s his structuralist impulse in action), even as he so clearly takes pleasure in subverting those very same systems (for which he’s been labeled a “post-structuralist” by those who share his affinity for classification). — Variety, May 2022

The Past

  • Map Collection — Atlanta History Center

  • Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Collection — Digital Library of Georgia

  • Historic Map Collection — Emory

  • Hargrett Rare Map Collection: Frontier to New South — UGA

  • Historic Maps Vault — University System of Georgia

  • Dynamic Map of History — Running Reality

The Present

Informational

  • City of Atlanta Maps & GIS

  • Midtown Development Tour Map

  • MARTA Interactive System Map

  • Georgia DOT Maps

  • Georgia Geologic Survey Maps

  • Georgia Highway & Transportation Maps — GDOT

  • Georgia Data Center Map — Georgia Department of Economic Development

  • CSX Route Map — CSX

Recreational

  • Interactive Maps by ATLsherpa (tools for explorers)

  • Appalachian Trail in Georgia Maps — Georgia Appalachian Trail Club

  • Full Appalachian Trail Interactive Map — Appalachian Trail Conservancy

  • Atlanta Beltline Interactive Map

  • PATH Foundation Maps

  • Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests by Jonah McDonald (see video above)

  • Best Trails in Georgia — AllTrails

  • Interactive Trail Map — Discover Georgia Outdoors

The Future

  • Atlanta’s Ring of Fire Map by ATLsherpa

  • Atlanta Regional Commission, Data & Maps

  • Atlanta Beltline Subarea Master Plans

  • The Future of Atlanta is Downtown — Central Atlanta Progress (Feb 2023)

  • Midtown Development Tour Map (window to the future)

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