I love maps. There's something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. I've previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual ...
Hamburg-based developer Pipapo Games has released a new trailer for cozy cartography adventure game Map Map: A Game About Maps as part of Wholesome Direct 2024. “Our small team is really excited to ...
Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...
The maps submitted this year to the bi-annual Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition range from adorable to masterful. Nearly two hundred finalists from 34 different countries were on display at ...
Amsterdam, from ‘Civitates orbis terrarum’ (1576) by Georg Braun (all images courtesy Taschen) “Kindly and most esteemed reader, we hereby place on the market the next book of the most noble cities of ...
The Cartography Center of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) started in October of 1941 with hand-drawn maps that plotted the geographic data of World War II. The Center today harnesses more ...
The map challenges canonical representations of modern political geography by shifting the axis of perception from the nation-state to the settlements established by the autochthonous populations of ...
Along with the library’s Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, the Golden Map Collection creates the world’s largest collection of maps of the Land of Israel, with nearly 2,000 antique maps of Jerusalem ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an age of sophisticated satellite mapping — hey, that’s my car in the driveway taken from 12,000 miles up! — there are still cartography fans who love the ...