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To explore the origins, view the state of the art, and guess at the future of the common (and uncommon) map.
- Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage Meet Scheduled for Barcelona
- Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
- Blog Of Interest: Show Off Your Maps!
- Site To See: Historic City Maps
- Ork Posters - Neighborhoods As Typographic Art
- Google Street View Gallery Open To All
- How To Make A Flat Earth Globe
- Te Taki o Autahi-International Conference Slated for Feb 2008
- New York Stories: Field Checking the Cushman & Wakefield Map
- “Making Maps” Co-author Has Blog
Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
by Samuel John Klein
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Digital Approaches To Cartographic Heritage Meet Scheduled for Barcelona
Free conference scheduled for June 2008 in Barcelona.
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Geo-Cluelessness Makes For Good Humor
Maps playing on geographical ignorance provide laughs, address issues.
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Blog Of Interest: Show Off Your Maps!
Just noted today: an adventurous map blogger makes the following bold statement: For a while now, we’ve thought to ourselves: wouldn’t it be great if there was some place on the web where map collectors could get together to compare their collections and discuss map collecting...
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Site To See: Historic City Maps
Jerusalem-based academic community digitizes, displays for all historic city maps from around Europe and the world.
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Ork Posters - Neighborhoods As Typographic Art
Simple typographic artistic neighborhood posters entertain the eye and the mind.
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Google Street View Gallery Open To All
A bunch of people have found and posted the interesting stuff, so you don't have to.
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How To Make A Flat Earth Globe
It exists, and you can do it yourself!
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Te Taki o Autahi-International Conference Slated for Feb 2008
Sited for Wellington, New Zealand, conference promises speakers and activities; call for papers; scenic tours available
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New York Stories: Field Checking the Cushman & Wakefield Map
We're more technological than ever, but sometimes you have to go into the mean streets to check it out...
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“Making Maps” Co-author Has Blog
Author's blog has ideas and resources for making one's own maps
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Upcoming Books on the Waldseemüller Map
Two upcoming volumes promise to open up “America’s Birth Certificate” to a mass audience The Waldseemüller Map, a world map drawn and first published in 1507, is the map credited with not merely integrating into the cartographic knowledge store the continents at the western edge of the Atlantic Ocean but dubbing them with the name we use today for them: “America”...
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Important Historical Maps Narrowly Escape Destruction In DC Library Fire
Peabody Room Collection Originally Feared Lost On 1 May 2007, library fans everywhere and United States historians in particular were shocked and saddened to hear that the Georgetown Branch of the Washington DC Public Library system, located at Wisconsin Avenue and R Street NW, suffered a catastrophic fire that destroyed much of the building...
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New DC Taxi Zone Map Clarifies Transportation
As part of a District initiative the well-known taxi zone map is redesigned for improved clarity and communication Traveling by taxi in Washington, DC is different from just about any major city one might know...
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Found Item: The Stuckenberg Digital Map Collection at Gettysburg College
Free digital collection showcases antique map images from noted late-19th C. scholar John H.W...
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A Most Intriguing Political Animal
In the USA’s tempestuous modern political landscape, the “gerrymander” has raised its quizzical head In the ongoing war of words that appears to amount to American politics latterly, we’ve heard much of the “gerrymander”...
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CCAer’s “Cartography” Blog Goes On Hiatus
His Gain Is Our Loss For the past year and a half, Paul Heersink (AKA “CCAer”) has run Cartography, a blog by and but not just for the Canadian Cartographic Association...
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The Libre Map Project “Frees” USGS Maps, Info
Free electronic PD maps now much easier to find Not widely heralded except on a few blogs, the Libre Map Project has opened its doors on the ‘Web...
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The Famous “Four-Color” Problem
The “Four-Color” problem sprang from a map, but is really about mathematics...
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Strange Maps, Strange Worlds
New blog exhibits the weird and the interesting I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won’t find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries that never existed - or never will exist...
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Rand McNally at 150: Back on Financial Course
The king of American map publishing comes back strongly after being passed up by online mapping The Chicago Sun-Times gives us a snapshot of America’s preeminent paper map publisher, who grew into the undoubted titan on American map publishing, even to the point of acquiring Thomas Bros maps in 1999 only to enter bankruptcy in 2003 after mounting a failing effort to keep up with internet mappers such as Mapquest and Google...
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Map Projections Gallery Changes Address
Valuable resource changes its URL Via a short message to the Maphist mailing list, Paul Anderson advises us that he’s moved his Gallery of Map Projection to a new URL: http://www...
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Washington Map Society Announces Ristow Prize Winners
Winner Gavin Hollis Scores for paper on on map literacy in early modern England The Washington Map Society have recently announced the winner and Honorable mention for the 2006 Walter W...
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A Couple Of Professional Opportunities In Cartography
The Leventhal Center and Yale University both seek employees Notice of a couple of opportunities for professional map librarians have landed in our inbox via the MapHist mailing list in the past week or so...
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Researcher Warps Waldseemüller For Historical Insights
Library of Congress researcher blogs about scientific method, historical accuracy John Hessler is a researcher whose interests run to the application of analytical methods to historcally significant cartography...
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Rare Map Thief Smiley Sentenced
Prison time reduced due to convicted’s cooperation Melissa Bailey, of the New Haven Independent, reports that E...
