Post #413720 by coruscate on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 6:01 PM

Mapmaker,

What's next? Why jump in with both feet of course.

Being a mapmaker myself (anybody else out there a Tiki and Map oriented folk) I completely undestand the way it jives with the geographic.

Not much of a drinker?
Me neither. But quality can replace quantity.
Learning to mix these fine drinks can be like apprenticing to an alchemist.

Maybe take OOGA-MOOGA to the rest of things Tiki and collectible.
Wrestle with your inner SQL master.

Tiki has its outlets and inroads besides the nostalgic Tiki Bar.

Of course if you don't have the Book of Tiki, by all means that is what is next.

Carving, anthropology, Googie Architecture, Disneyland-ia, ceramics, artistic release!

I think the Tiki thread you would follow is the Tiki Map, a path not often traveled.

Where is Tiki?
(I would gladly consider pumping the Critiki data through GIS and output it to a Google Earth File or a sexier map mashup)

Where is Polynesian Pop?

How can you tell the most compelling story of TIKI cartographically?

What is the distribution pattern of a given tiki mug across the landscape.

But I bet travel is the final answer for you.

Go to the heart of TIKI, see the Polynesian Pop dinosaurs still lurking in our suburbs or in our ongoing unearthing of Tiki-pop-archaelogy.

Go in person to its ancestral homes of Fiji, Easter Island, Hawaii, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Oceania, Tonga, Samoa, Marquesas, New Guinea, Tahiti, Society Islands, Tuamotus.

See you when you get back!