How not to map the covid-19 pandemic
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CDC makes basic blunder to produce a misleading graphic.
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Great (new) resource for medieval maps
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The release of Virtual Mappa 2.0 has just been announced
Read MoreEight Considerations for Reading Maps
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Some principles I’ve found useful in reading maps as cultural texts. (My image is from Petrus Bertius, 1628: the world according to Pomponius Mela, just because this is a key work in the reworking of the end of chapter 2 of Mapping, History, Theory)
Read MoreGeorge III's Military Map Collection
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An amazing collection of military maps and plans, 1572–1815, is now available online!
Read MoreWhy it can be hard to watch media
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I’m having a sad about a map in an episode of the West Wing
Read More"Cartograph"
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Some reflections on the shifting usage of one of my least favorite words: the back formation has been repoeatedly coined to subvert the ideal of cartography, but all it can do is perpetuate it!
Read MoreTweet Test
/Just a test to see how the connection to twitter works. If this stays up, then consider this notice that you can follow my twitter feed (@mhedney, see link in footer) for notices of new posts.
Map History Books of 2019
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The books that came out in the past twelve months that caught my attention. (Of course I have to use the image of my own!)
Read MoreThe Best Map History Books of the Decade
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It’s late December and the media industry has been busy churning out the lists of the best (and worst) Xs of 2019 and also, because it’s 2019, they are also generating lists of the best (and worst) Xs of the decade. Here’s my idiosyncratic list of the best books in map history of the decade.
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