July 17, 2025

Public Radio interview re History of Cartography

July 17, 2025/ Matthew Edney

I was interviewed by Larry Rayburn for the show Conversations with Larry Meiller, Wisconsin Public Radio (Ideas Network), last Monday, 14 July 2025.

It was fun – Mr Rayburn is an easy mark to make laugh! Some great caller questions re digital technologies and mapping.

You can find the interview online at www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography.

Enjoy!

Image for the blogroll is a detail of the population of the USA according to the 1790 census, from Francis Amasa Walker’s Statistical Atlas of the United States (Washington, DC, 1874), courtesy of davidrumsy.com (rumsey 3566012)

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).

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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