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My New Article on Fantasy Maps: 'Here Be Blank Spaces' 26 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
My short essay on fantasy maps, "Here Be Blank Spaces: Vaguely Medieval Fantasy Maps" appears in issue #300 of The New York Review of Science Fiction, out today. I wrote it in response to several book...
Ian Silva's Koana Islands 22 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
Wired Map Lab has the story of Ian Silva, who's been posting astonishing road and transit maps of the imaginary Koana Islands to Reddit; the Islands now have their own section on the site, replete wit...
The World on an Egg, circa 1504 22 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
In an article published this week in the Washington Map Society's journal, The Portolan, map collector Stefaan Missinne has announced the discovery of a small, engraved globe that he says is the first...
Tube Map Live 14 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Andy Drizen's Tube Map Live (iTunes), a free iOS app (native iPhone and iPad versions) that shows the real-time positions of London Underground trains on the iconic Tube map, using official data. Hypn...
Pluto's Problematic Cartography 5 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
We're still two years from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, but the cartography of the solar system's most famous dwarf planet -- based on Hubble imagery -- is already several kinds of problematic, as...
A Fantasy Map of Ireland 5 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
Another data point for our consideration of what people think a fantasy map looks like, from the author of the Maptitude tumblelog: a fantasy map of Ireland, replete with, as you would expect, forests...
Wired Map Lab 4 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Two years ago, after I brought The Map Room to a close, despondent readers asked me where they could go for their map fix, now that I was denying it to them. At the time I couldn't point to a map blog...
Close Up at a Distance 2 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
Briefly noted: Laura Kurgan's Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics (Zone Books, March 2013), a different look at maps built with satellite imagery, GIS and GPS data. "Poised at th...
Circular Subway Maps 29 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
Map designer Max Roberts has designed subway maps for London and New York that are based on a series of concentric circles. Strictly for fun (and shock and horror), he says, but there's an undeniable ...
A Fantasy Map of Great Britain 27 Jul 2013 | 04:51 pm
It turns out that Samuel Fisher has also created a fantasy map of Great Britain, in addition to his Australian fantasy map and one version of the U.S. fantasy map. Again: an important data point for u...
