![Fata Morgana: The World without a Map
“Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find much more information about this piece, except maybe of its name Fata Morgana [xn—slarsteinn-gbb.com]. The website features a fully functional Google Maps like view of the world, although the map is reduced to include only place names and does not feature any geographical feature…”
— information aesthetics
In the comments thread over at infosthetics, someone named Miguel found this, commented out in the source code of the site:
“Seasoned explorers, vehemently insisting on what they had seen, set down mountains and islands on their charts where there was nothing but empty sky … Expeditions sent out later to verify these new lands sometimes saw the same fata morgana, further confusing the issue. Only by prolonging their arduous journeys, thereby observing a constant recreding [sic] of the image, did they prove that the land was not there at all.”
The quote is from one Francis Spufford and you can find a bit of context for it here.
…All map, no territory.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6to10NTaY1qz9ppso1_500.jpg)
Fata Morgana: The World without a Map
“Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find much more information about this piece, except maybe of its name Fata Morgana [xn—slarsteinn-gbb.com]. The website features a fully functional Google Maps like view of the world, although the map is reduced to include only place names and does not feature any geographical feature…”
In the comments thread over at infosthetics, someone named Miguel found this, commented out in the source code of the site:
“Seasoned explorers, vehemently insisting on what they had seen, set down mountains and islands on their charts where there was nothing but empty sky … Expeditions sent out later to verify these new lands sometimes saw the same fata morgana, further confusing the issue. Only by prolonging their arduous journeys, thereby observing a constant recreding [sic] of the image, did they prove that the land was not there at all.”
The quote is from one Francis Spufford and you can find a bit of context for it here.
…All map, no territory.
