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Mapping as Process

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    • About Me
    • Brief CV
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    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
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    • Mapping an Empire
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Mapping as Process

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

Archive

Mapping as Process

  • About/
    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
  • Bibliographies/
    • Classified (with download links)
    • Regular Format
  • Archive/
  • Resources/
    • Contributions
    • dramatis personae
  • Contact/
  • July 2025
    • Jul 17, 2025 Spicing up the World Map! Jul 17, 2025
    • Jul 17, 2025 Public Radio interview re History of Cartography Jul 17, 2025
    • Jul 11, 2025 "Comparative Map History" is published! Jul 11, 2025
  • June 2025
    • Jun 26, 2025 Mapping the Social World of the Counterculture Jun 26, 2025
    • Jun 1, 2025 New book imminent ... Jun 1, 2025
    • Jun 1, 2025 An Update on the Facsimile(s) of the Borgia Map Jun 1, 2025
  • May 2025
    • May 20, 2025 My 2024 Journal of Historical Geography Lecture is now available in preprint May 20, 2025
    • May 19, 2025 A Cautionary Tale: Misreading the Palimpsest (Meitzen, Maitland, Bateson, Darby) May 19, 2025
  • March 2025
    • Mar 30, 2025 A New Essay on Single-Volume "Histories of Cartography" Mar 30, 2025
    • Mar 30, 2025 A Response to Denil's Accusations Mar 30, 2025
    • Mar 7, 2025 Arnold Heeren’s 1804 Prospectus for a “History of Geographical Maps” Mar 7, 2025
  • February 2025
    • Feb 26, 2025 Materiality and the Limits of Internet Research: The “Borgia Map” and Its Facsimiles Feb 26, 2025
    • Feb 26, 2025 Listen to a Map Podcast, with me! Feb 26, 2025
    • Feb 13, 2025 An oceanic image that is a map, not a chart Feb 13, 2025
  • December 2024
    • Dec 19, 2024 2024 Books in Map History, plus some I missed from 2023 Dec 19, 2024
    • Dec 16, 2024 Another flat earth thingy ... Dec 16, 2024
  • November 2024
    • Nov 11, 2024 Alexander Dalrymple’s Spiteful Innovation in Map History Nov 11, 2024
    • Nov 3, 2024 The First Unorthodox, Modernist Mapping of the World? Nov 3, 2024
  • October 2024
    • Oct 9, 2024 Size Matters: Why Do We Measure the Size of Maps, and How? Oct 9, 2024
  • September 2024
    • Sep 24, 2024 New Essay Sep 24, 2024
  • July 2024
    • Jul 21, 2024 The Uselessness of Coronelli’s Great Globes of 1681–83 Jul 21, 2024
    • Jul 8, 2024 Some Parallels between Puppetry and the Nature of Mapping and Map Studies Jul 8, 2024
  • June 2024
    • Jun 13, 2024 A confusion of “natural” expressions of map scale Jun 13, 2024
  • March 2024
    • Mar 12, 2024 Who were the map historians? Mar 12, 2024
  • February 2024
    • Feb 1, 2024 A fugitive history of world map projections, found! Feb 1, 2024
  • January 2024
    • Jan 23, 2024 Arno Peters and his Map Work Jan 23, 2024
  • December 2023
    • Dec 21, 2023 Map History Books of 2023 Dec 21, 2023
    • Dec 1, 2023 A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America Dec 1, 2023
  • September 2023
    • Sep 12, 2023 An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland Sep 12, 2023
  • August 2023
    • Aug 30, 2023 Cartography in the European Enlightenment is now online ... Aug 30, 2023
    • Aug 29, 2023 New Essay Published (with download link) Aug 29, 2023
    • Aug 15, 2023 New Book Chapter Aug 15, 2023
  • March 2023
    • Mar 19, 2023 New England Prospect: An Innovative Map Exhibition from 1980 Mar 19, 2023
  • February 2023
    • Feb 23, 2023 Identifying Map Projections ... Feb 23, 2023
    • Feb 17, 2023 The History of Cartography at MoMA, 1943 Feb 17, 2023
  • January 2023
    • Jan 30, 2023 Collection of Essays on the History of Map Collecting just Published Jan 30, 2023
    • Jan 26, 2023 Onto Mastodon ... Jan 26, 2023
  • December 2022
    • Dec 30, 2022 And a Podcast re Cullum's 1836 Map of Portland Dec 30, 2022
    • Dec 30, 2022 Two New Things re "Cartography" and "Map" in the Latest Cartographic Perspectives Dec 30, 2022
    • Dec 16, 2022 Map History Books Published in 2022 Dec 16, 2022
    • Dec 9, 2022 I'm Quitting Twitter Dec 9, 2022
    • Dec 6, 2022 The Perils of Literality Dec 6, 2022
    • Dec 3, 2022 Something on the Origins of the Two Largest Map Collections in the USA and the Practice of Map History Dec 3, 2022
    • Dec 3, 2022 The 5Ps, a mnemonic for map historians Dec 3, 2022
  • November 2022
    • Nov 29, 2022 Another small essay Nov 29, 2022
    • Nov 27, 2022 The History of Map Exhibitions Nov 27, 2022
    • Nov 20, 2022 New Short Essay on mapping, history, and technologial innovation in early 19c eastern USA Nov 20, 2022
    • Nov 20, 2022 How to Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation for Map History Nov 20, 2022
  • June 2022
    • Jun 26, 2022 Another New Essay Jun 26, 2022
    • Jun 14, 2022 A Curious Implementation of Copper-Plate Printing Jun 14, 2022
    • Jun 13, 2022 A New Essay Jun 13, 2022
  • March 2022
    • Mar 4, 2022 New Book About the Flat Earthers Mar 4, 2022
  • February 2022
    • Feb 20, 2022 Traditional Map History in the International Geographical Union Feb 20, 2022
    • Feb 20, 2022 A Case of Mistaken Identity and Severe Historical Confusion Feb 20, 2022
  • December 2021
    • Dec 19, 2021 Map History Books of 2021 Dec 19, 2021
  • November 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Reading the “Blathwayt Atlas” of Colonial North America Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 26, 2021 The Importance of Context Nov 26, 2021
  • October 2021
    • Oct 30, 2021 The control-freakness of an early map collector Oct 30, 2021
  • September 2021
    • Sep 21, 2021 A Disturbing Map... Sep 21, 2021
    • Sep 13, 2021 Constructing a Feminized Landscape Sep 13, 2021
    • Sep 2, 2021 It's a Fake -- for real this time Sep 2, 2021
  • August 2021
    • Aug 23, 2021 Reworking the Founding Disciplinary Narrative along Cognitive Lines Aug 23, 2021
    • Aug 20, 2021 Some Thoughts on Jacques Bertin’s “[Carto]graphic Semiology” Aug 20, 2021
  • July 2021
    • Jul 21, 2021 More on the Fetishization of Triangulation (and on the Possible Schizophrenia of Recent Map History) Jul 21, 2021
    • Jul 14, 2021 Triangulation ... it's not just "doing things with triangles" Jul 14, 2021
  • June 2021
    • Jun 30, 2021 Modern Histories of Geodesy and Surveying Jun 30, 2021
    • Jun 28, 2021 Suppositions of Location and of Similitude Jun 28, 2021
    • Jun 23, 2021 Origins of Map Libraries in the mid-Nineteenth Century Jun 23, 2021
  • May 2021
    • May 18, 2021 An Early Color Facsimile: Hand-Applied or Printed? May 18, 2021
    • May 5, 2021 New short publication May 5, 2021
  • April 2021
    • Apr 21, 2021 Wikipedia's Absurdist Taxonomy of Map Types Apr 21, 2021
    • Apr 5, 2021 Cognitive Maps in Bemazed Rats, and Humans Apr 5, 2021
  • March 2021
    • Mar 22, 2021 Death to Cartography! Mar 22, 2021
    • Mar 18, 2021 Winther "When Maps Become the World" (2020) Mar 18, 2021
    • Mar 13, 2021 From an Art to Science (How Mapping Acquired Its Fiber) Mar 13, 2021
  • February 2021
    • Feb 21, 2021 Perfecting the World Map? Feb 21, 2021
    • Feb 17, 2021 A “Radically Different” World Map? Feb 17, 2021
  • January 2021
    • Jan 31, 2021 Irene Jean Curnow (active 1921–30) Jan 31, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 Zoom Interview on 4 Feb 2021 Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 Bauhaus and Map Collecting Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 19, 2021 Comparative Cartography Jan 19, 2021
    • Jan 17, 2021 On the Destruction and Loss of Early (Wall) Maps Jan 17, 2021
    • Jan 9, 2021 What Is a “Planisphere”? Jan 9, 2021
  • December 2020
    • Dec 31, 2020 Map History Books of 2020 Dec 31, 2020
    • Dec 28, 2020 Newfound Old Maps of Maine Dec 28, 2020
    • Dec 20, 2020 New anti-"Flat Earth" Video Dec 20, 2020
    • Dec 18, 2020 Harley’s Understandable, but Misplaced, Criticism of Bagrow’s “History of Cartography” Dec 18, 2020
    • Dec 8, 2020 Explicating the Observational Preconception of the Ideal of Cartography Dec 8, 2020
    • Dec 7, 2020 Rethinking Maps and Mapping and How They Have Developed and Evolved Dec 7, 2020
  • November 2020
    • Nov 25, 2020 The Maps We Play ... Nov 25, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Unknown early disciples of Humboldt and Santarém Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 6, 2020 Jomard vs Santarém Nov 6, 2020
    • Nov 6, 2020 The Growth of Map History in the Nineteenth Century Nov 6, 2020
  • October 2020
    • Oct 15, 2020 Creating 'Discovery' Oct 15, 2020
    • Oct 10, 2020 Killing Cartography Oct 10, 2020
    • Oct 9, 2020 Review forum for Cartography: The Ideal and Its History Oct 9, 2020
  • September 2020
    • Sep 26, 2020 Small Piece Published re Maine Mapping Exhibition Sep 26, 2020
    • Sep 24, 2020 Interview with Mary and me about Volume Four Sep 24, 2020
    • Sep 12, 2020 I Have Located a Town ... Sep 12, 2020
    • Sep 9, 2020 "Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit Sep 9, 2020
  • August 2020
    • Aug 26, 2020 River Names Aug 26, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 A Little-Known Facsimile Aug 19, 2020
    • Aug 16, 2020 An Early Narrative of Map History Aug 16, 2020
    • Aug 13, 2020 Rehabilitating “Historical Map” Aug 13, 2020
  • July 2020
    • Jul 28, 2020 The Venetian Discovery of the New World before Columbus? Jul 28, 2020
    • Jul 27, 2020 How to Sell Maps in the Eighteenth Century Jul 27, 2020
    • Jul 23, 2020 Here be dragons ... Jul 23, 2020
    • Jul 20, 2020 Early Histories of Geodesy Jul 20, 2020
    • Jul 10, 2020 cfp: International Conference on the History of Cartography, 2021 Jul 10, 2020
  • June 2020
    • Jun 7, 2020 An Early pro-Australian World Map Jun 7, 2020
    • Jun 3, 2020 Video of a Conference Presentation !! Jun 3, 2020
  • May 2020
    • May 29, 2020 “Mode” or “Genre”? May 29, 2020
    • May 29, 2020 Do You Have What It Takes? May 29, 2020
    • May 27, 2020 What a difference a caption makes May 27, 2020
    • May 11, 2020 Who was Matthäus/Martin Brazl? May 11, 2020
    • May 9, 2020 The Map's the Thing May 9, 2020
  • April 2020
    • Apr 29, 2020 Lists of map libraries with online access Apr 29, 2020
    • Apr 25, 2020 Maps in Fantasy Books Apr 25, 2020
    • Apr 25, 2020 Maps, Humor, and the Absurd Apr 25, 2020
    • Apr 24, 2020 Volume 4 is in the warehouse! Apr 24, 2020
    • Apr 24, 2020 New podcast with me! Apr 24, 2020
    • Apr 22, 2020 cfp: maps and cartographies in the English-speaking world in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Apr 22, 2020
    • Apr 16, 2020 A Mass of Covid-19 maps and data graphics Apr 16, 2020
    • Apr 12, 2020 A Roman map of Britain? Apr 12, 2020
    • Apr 9, 2020 Celebrate!!!!! Apr 9, 2020
  • March 2020
    • Mar 24, 2020 Finally, a proper cartogram of covid-19 Mar 24, 2020
    • Mar 24, 2020 Getting granular on a national scale Mar 24, 2020
    • Mar 23, 2020 More granular mapping of the corona virus Mar 23, 2020
    • Mar 22, 2020 Some Self-Deprecation Mar 22, 2020
    • Mar 12, 2020 How to map the covid-19 outbreak Mar 12, 2020
    • Mar 11, 2020 How not to map the covid-19 pandemic Mar 11, 2020
    • Mar 5, 2020 Great (new) resource for medieval maps Mar 5, 2020
  • February 2020
    • Feb 20, 2020 Eight Considerations for Reading Maps Feb 20, 2020
  • January 2020
    • Jan 28, 2020 George III's Military Map Collection Jan 28, 2020
    • Jan 25, 2020 Why it can be hard to watch media Jan 25, 2020
    • Jan 23, 2020 "Cartograph" Jan 23, 2020
    • Jan 8, 2020 Tweet Test Jan 8, 2020
  • December 2019
    • Dec 31, 2019 Map History Books of 2019 Dec 31, 2019
    • Dec 25, 2019 The Best Map History Books of the Decade Dec 25, 2019
    • Dec 4, 2019 An idiosyncratic method of locational referencing that has me stumped Dec 4, 2019
    • Dec 2, 2019 Abandoning Facebook and academia.edu Dec 2, 2019
  • November 2019
    • Nov 14, 2019 An 1826 Plan for Rational Place Naming Nov 14, 2019
  • October 2019
    • Oct 25, 2019 H-Maps - An Email List for Early Maps Oct 25, 2019
    • Oct 15, 2019 For Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct 15, 2019
  • September 2019
    • Sep 12, 2019 The Magnetic Compass and North Orientation Sep 12, 2019
    • Sep 10, 2019 A Stunning Realization Sep 10, 2019
  • August 2019
    • Aug 30, 2019 The History of Cartography Series Aug 30, 2019
    • Aug 29, 2019 A major new study fails to consider maps in books Aug 29, 2019
    • Aug 12, 2019 Early Colonial Property Mapping in Poetry Aug 12, 2019
  • June 2019
    • Jun 25, 2019 Cartography: The Interview (New Books Network) Jun 25, 2019
    • Jun 6, 2019 Of Measures and Tyranny Jun 6, 2019
  • May 2019
    • May 10, 2019 ‘A Handsome Exhibit of the Land’ May 10, 2019
    • May 6, 2019 The History of Cartography in a Brief Poem May 6, 2019
  • April 2019
    • Apr 24, 2019 Plaintive haiku Apr 24, 2019
    • Apr 11, 2019 “The New Cartography” Apr 11, 2019
    • Apr 4, 2019 Is the World's Oldest Map a Map? Apr 4, 2019
  • March 2019
    • Mar 25, 2019 It's here! Mar 25, 2019
    • Mar 14, 2019 2018 Books on Map History Mar 14, 2019
    • Mar 9, 2019 More FErs Mar 9, 2019
    • Mar 3, 2019 Pocket globes "in the wild" Mar 3, 2019
  • December 2018
    • Dec 19, 2018 The First International Map of the World? Dec 19, 2018
    • Dec 15, 2018 A Misunderstood Quatrain Dec 15, 2018
  • November 2018
    • Nov 29, 2018 A partial, essentialist, and incorrect etymology for “map” Nov 29, 2018
  • October 2018
    • Oct 2, 2018 Update re "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" Oct 2, 2018
    • Oct 2, 2018 The Limits to Mapping Oct 2, 2018
  • September 2018
    • Sep 4, 2018 USGS Printing Techniques Sep 4, 2018
  • August 2018
    • Aug 17, 2018 The Materiality of Maps Aug 17, 2018
  • July 2018
    • Jul 8, 2018 The Cartographic Ideal’s Preconception of Pictorialness Jul 8, 2018
  • June 2018
    • Jun 28, 2018 A Flat Earth? Jun 28, 2018
    • Jun 3, 2018 A Game of Snakes and Ladders Jun 3, 2018
  • May 2018
    • May 24, 2018 Squaring the Cartographic Circle May 24, 2018
    • May 5, 2018 Maps, Semiotics, and History May 5, 2018
  • March 2018
    • Mar 29, 2018 A mezzotint star map Mar 29, 2018
    • Mar 15, 2018 Every Map Is Interesting! Mar 15, 2018
    • Mar 14, 2018 First Steps towards a Partial Genealogy of the Compass Rose Mar 14, 2018
    • Mar 10, 2018 A Salutary Reminder... Mar 10, 2018
  • February 2018
    • Feb 23, 2018 Maps and Memory ... and Imagination Feb 23, 2018
    • Feb 16, 2018 A Self-Explanatory Map? Come for the Satire, Stay for the Fun Feb 16, 2018
  • January 2018
    • Jan 27, 2018 Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History Jan 27, 2018
    • Jan 15, 2018 Why I Don’t Like Thematic Maps Jan 15, 2018
    • Jan 11, 2018 What is a Processual Approach to Mapping? Jan 11, 2018
    • Jan 4, 2018 "Cartography in the European Enlightenment" goes to press! Jan 4, 2018
    • Jan 1, 2018 2017 Books on Map History Jan 1, 2018
    • Jan 1, 2018 A paper about me! Jan 1, 2018
  • December 2017
    • Dec 14, 2017 This is Not a Map Dec 14, 2017
    • Dec 13, 2017 ISHMap: International Society for the History of the Map Dec 13, 2017
    • Dec 13, 2017 Why "Mapping as Process"? Dec 13, 2017
  • About/
    • About Me
    • Brief CV
  • My Books/
    • Comparative Map History
    • Cartography in the European Enlightenment
    • Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
    • Cartography (reviews)
    • Harley's Cartographic Theories
    • Mapping an Empire
  • Bibliographies/
    • Classified (with download links)
    • Regular Format
  • Archive/
  • Resources/
    • Contributions
    • dramatis personae
  • Contact/

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 print and as an 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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