How a German rent collector became an important map maker of the fifteenth century, at least in the eyes of early map historians

Except that people still forget this basic rule. An example prompted by the miscataloging of the map at left.

The cover map here is a low-res image pulled from the internet (e-bay, I think), from an 1897 US atlas that seems not yet to have been imaged fully and properly. Perhaps one of the sites listed in the pages listed here will host the atlas someday …

Some online (and print) essays about maps in fantasy novels

An explanation of an explanation of an XKCD comic by Randall Munroe

Shipping now!

Here me prattle on about maps and power and data and things. If you dare. (Did I say I’m going a bit stir crazy?) Cover image is a detail of the 1801 map of Kent, the ur-map of the Ordnance Survey.

Colloque annuel de la SEAA 17-18, 15 et 16 janvier 2021, Université Paris-Diderot

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine has emerged as the main data clearing house in the US for data re the Corona virus and covid-19. They have a new dashboard that allows one to look at county-level data.