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Mapping as Process

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    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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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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    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
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    • Classified (with download links)
    • Regular Format
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February 23, 2023

Identifying Map Projections ...

February 23, 2023/ Matthew Edney
Identifying Map Projections ...

Let’s revisit Boggs and Lewis’s 1945 guide that is REALLY USEFUL but that everyone seems to have forgotten about! With a challenge to modern lovers of map projections!!!

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February 23, 2023/ Matthew Edney/
February 17, 2023

The History of Cartography at MoMA, 1943

February 17, 2023/ Matthew Edney
The History of Cartography at MoMA, 1943

Further to my interest in the history of map exhibitions, here’s an account of one I was led to yesterday by Benjamin Benus. It’s a modernist history of cartography as part of a grand wartime effort to redefine geography “for the future”

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February 17, 2023/ Matthew Edney/
January 30, 2023

Collection of Essays on the History of Map Collecting just Published

January 30, 2023/ Matthew Edney
Collection of Essays on the History of Map Collecting just Published

Several of the presentations from the 2016 series of the Nebenzahl Lectures, by me, Pegg, Schulten, and Akerman

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January 30, 2023/ Matthew Edney/
January 26, 2023

Onto Mastodon ...

January 26, 2023/ Matthew Edney
Onto Mastodon ...

I just can’t stay away from social media for the academic info

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January 26, 2023/ Matthew Edney/
December 30, 2022

And a Podcast re Cullum's 1836 Map of Portland

December 30, 2022/ Matthew Edney
And a Podcast re Cullum's 1836 Map of Portland

An interview with Libby Bischof about the map I blogged about for OML

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December 30, 2022/ Matthew Edney/
December 30, 2022

Two New Things re "Cartography" and "Map" in the Latest Cartographic Perspectives

December 30, 2022/ Matthew Edney
Two New Things re "Cartography" and "Map" in the Latest Cartographic Perspectives

In particular my response to Mark Denil’s attempt at an Aristotelian map philosophy that was borderline ad hominem towards myself.

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December 30, 2022/ Matthew Edney/
December 16, 2022

Map History Books Published in 2022

December 16, 2022/ Matthew Edney
Map History Books Published in 2022

Time for the annual list of map history books!

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December 16, 2022/ Matthew Edney/
December 09, 2022

I'm Quitting Twitter

December 09, 2022/ Matthew Edney
I'm Quitting Twitter

Time to leave the twitterverse … so use an RSS reader to keep track of new posts!

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December 09, 2022/ Matthew Edney/
December 06, 2022

The Perils of Literality

December 06, 2022/ Matthew Edney
The Perils of Literality

On reading a deeply flawed essay, I am stunned that it could ever have passed peer review. (How stunned am I? I have the mental capacity of a concussed bee.)

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December 06, 2022/ 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 …

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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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