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Turning old maps into 3D digital models of lost neighborhoods
Machine learning technique viewed as boon to urban research
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Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
Find the Easter eggs—or the naked lady.
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Inuit Cartography
In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters...
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This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award
The 2016 Good Design Award results were announced recently with awards going to over 1000 entries in several different categories. But the coveted Grand Award of Japan's most well-known design award, given to just 1 entry, was announced today.
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The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” For Its Historical Maps
The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory is a "digital time-travel service" for their collections of maps and geospatial data.
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The historical map collection has over 76,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World. Popular collection categories are celestial, antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall & case, children’s, and manuscript maps...
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Demystifying the Ancient Tangle of London’s Streets
For 81 years, A-Z maps have helped everyone from cabbies to clueless tourists navigate one of the world’s most confusing cities. By Greg Miller.
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Satirical maps of the world
Objective geographical representation isn’t always the intention of maps – they can also provide social, economic or political commentary on a region, as British Library maps curator, Tom Harper discusses.
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A Very Modern Map of Britain's Ancient Roman Roads
Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.
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Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World
Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
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Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended. By Greg Miller.
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Pangea Supercontinent With Modern Countries Labeled
This is a map of the Pangea supercontinent created by digital artist Massimo Pietrobon with all the modern countries labeled.
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Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg, author of Sea Monsters, explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.
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If an algorithm draws lines on a map, is that the same as land surveying?
Vizaline says its service is not surveying, but Mississippi authorities disagree. By Cyrus Farivar.
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The World's Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps
Cartographers, rejoice. By Anika Burgess.
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Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps
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How mapmakers help indigenous people defend their lands
With help from cartographers, native peoples’ hand-drawn maps of their own territory become a tool against exploitation.
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The world’s oldest medieval map
Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world.
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First You Make the Maps
How cartography made early modern global trade possible.
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AI is supercharging the creation of maps around the world
Map With AI, tool created by Facebook researchers and engineers, is helping the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project map missing roads around the world.
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