Do You Have What It Takes?
/To be an editor for Imago Mundi?
Read MoreWhat a difference a caption makes
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Also, the state as an organism: the nineteenth-century justification for imperial expansion!
Read MoreWho was Matthäus/Martin Brazl?
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How a German rent collector became an important map maker of the fifteenth century, at least in the eyes of early map historians
Read MoreThe Map's the Thing
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Except that people still forget this basic rule. An example prompted by the miscataloging of the map at left.
Read MoreLists of map libraries with online access
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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 …
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Maps, Humor, and the Absurd
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An explanation of an explanation of an XKCD comic by Randall Munroe
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New podcast with me!
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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.
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