A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption
The cover map here is a low-res image pulled from the internet (e-bay, I think), from an 1897 US atlas that seems not yet to have been imaged fully and properly. Perhaps one of the sites listed in the pages listed here will host the atlas someday …
Read MoreSome online (and print) essays about maps in fantasy novels
Read MoreAn explanation of an explanation of an XKCD comic by Randall Munroe
Read MoreHere me prattle on about maps and power and data and things. If you dare. (Did I say I’m going a bit stir crazy?) Cover image is a detail of the 1801 map of Kent, the ur-map of the Ordnance Survey.
Read MoreColloque annuel de la SEAA 17-18, 15 et 16 janvier 2021, Université Paris-Diderot
Read MoreJohns Hopkins University of Medicine has emerged as the main data clearing house in the US for data re the Corona virus and covid-19. They have a new dashboard that allows one to look at county-level data.
Read MoreThe Map of Britain in Richard of Westminster’s De situ Britanniæ
Read MoreAnnouncing the Publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography. (Look just to the right for ordering information.)
Read MoreMapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.
Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).
Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).
Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.
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