My research is going to be guided by this question - finding the source of Auckland's drinking water and mapping how it reaches my home.
The London Tube map seems a possible base map - the aim is to portray a system, with little regard to geographic correctness and no scale requirement. The underground infrastructure and nodes of water infrastructure (reservoirs, pipes and treatment plants) seem similar to the underground railway lines and stations of the Tube.
London Tube Diagram by Paul E. Garbutt
Source:http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk
The methodology will involve gathering data and information from primarily Auckland Council and its CCO Watercare, although this will need to be developed further.
Re mapping the invisible - this is a beautiful quote from Invisible Cities:
A map of Esmeralda should include, marked in different coloured inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden. It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.
(Calvino, I. (1972) Invisible Cities. Harcourt: Orlando Florida.)
Re mapping the invisible - this is a beautiful quote from Invisible Cities:
A map of Esmeralda should include, marked in different coloured inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden. It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.
(Calvino, I. (1972) Invisible Cities. Harcourt: Orlando Florida.)
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