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Mapping as Process

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Mapping as Process

A blog on the study of mapping processes: production, circulation, and consumption

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process

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    • Brief CV
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    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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April 12, 2020

A Roman map of Britain?

April 12, 2020/ Matthew Edney
A Roman map of Britain?

The Map of Britain in Richard of Westminster’s De situ Britanniæ

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April 09, 2020

Celebrate!!!!!

April 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Celebrate!!!!!

Announcing the Publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography. (Look just to the right for ordering information.)

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March 24, 2020

Finally, a proper cartogram of covid-19

March 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Finally, a proper cartogram of covid-19

Using a choropleth with regions proportional to population works!

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March 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
March 24, 2020

Getting granular on a national scale

March 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Getting granular on a national scale

But still problematic as mapping absolute values in a choropleth.

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March 24, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
March 23, 2020

More granular mapping of the corona virus

March 23, 2020/ Matthew Edney
More granular mapping of the corona virus

By a former student, moreover

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March 23, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
March 22, 2020

Some Self-Deprecation

March 22, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Some Self-Deprecation

My failure with a crossword clue re maps

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March 22, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
March 12, 2020

How to map the covid-19 outbreak

March 12, 2020/ Matthew Edney
How to map the covid-19 outbreak

A much better, more informative map from The Guardian (updated with more maps, 16 March)

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March 11, 2020

How not to map the covid-19 pandemic

March 11, 2020/ Matthew Edney
How not to map the covid-19 pandemic

CDC makes basic blunder to produce a misleading graphic.

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March 05, 2020

Great (new) resource for medieval maps

March 05, 2020/ Matthew Edney
Great (new) resource for medieval maps

The release of Virtual Mappa 2.0 has just been announced

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March 05, 2020/ Matthew Edney/
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Mapping as Process

Mapping 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.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in July 2025, in print and ebook ($87).

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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).

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Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

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Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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