{"id":"asset_e1c6f1a0be13","source_id":"c124fd8b-5812-4cff-a0ae-56f8156bd735","origin":"dropbox","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"10-correspondence-two-cartographers.txt","path":"/10-correspondence-two-cartographers.txt","size_bytes":7428,"title":"10 correspondence two cartographers","description":"This is original epistolary fiction comprising nine letters exchanged between two cartographers in different continents during 1911-1913. The correspondence explores whether maps can visually represent different types of uncertainty—about a feature's position, the date of observation, or its existence—without violating official survey standards, developing and testing a system of cartographic marks to convey these distinctions.","extracted_text":"LETTERS BETWEEN TWO CARTOGRAPHERS WHO NEVER MET\nOriginal epistolary fiction. Both correspondents and the survey are invented.\n\nNine letters, 1911–1913, between H. Solveig Braithe (Reykjavík) and M. Adeyemi\nOduya (Lagos), who corresponded for two years about the representation of\nuncertainty on maps and never met in person.\n\n──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\n**Braithe to Oduya, 4 March 1911**\n\nSir — I have your paper on the Delta surveys and I write about one sentence in\nit, which has kept me awake for a week.\n\nYou say: *\"Where the channel had moved, we drew it where it had been, because\nwhere it was going could not be drawn.\"*\n\nI have spent eleven years mapping ice margins and I have drawn that same lie\nseveral hundred times. We agree the map is wrong the moment it is printed. What\nI cannot decide is whether we are permitted to say so *on the map itself*.\n\n──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\n**Oduya","attributes":{"dropbox_file_id":"id:1EL26tM-qg4AAAAAAAAAGw"},"usable_for":["research reference","content source","writing style reference","fact extraction"],"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":1100},"content_available":true,"available":true,"addedAt":1787871851395}