I'm greatly enjoying the latest version of the Old Maps Online website. It has a very smooth time scrubber where you can see political borders change through time, and then browse georeferenced historical maps from map libraries like the David Rumsey collection.
it's Friday, so time for our weekly visit to the podcast archives.
Let's just have a look ... blows dust off of old podcast rack ...
ah, here's one for fans of cartography - back in Episode 71 @stevenfeldman had the chance to chat with Eric Rodenbeck & Alan McConchie @alan of well known data visualization and cartography studio Stamen @stamen - designers of the famous OpenStreetMap watercolor maps (and much else)
Happy #SelfPromoSaturday. My new adventure Silence of Stonetree is out. The town of Stonetree & its inhabitants suddenly petrify around the characters, can they find the fountain of legend, face down the corrupted guardian and cure the town? Find out in this exciting adventure module suitable for a 3rd level party, it comes with colour and printer-friendly maps (see below), new monsters, a magic weapon that grows with the party and more! All for just $3.50.
btw, I failed to brag -- my ongoing historiographical and conceptual work means that my bibliography on #map#maphistory#cartography and all sorts of other stuff -- every thing I've seen or encountered since 1995 -- to just over 22,000 records. Of these 14,800 are flagged as being about maps in some way. Here's a wodge of entries for my academic grandfather. I still need to work to get this stuff organized consistently and online!!
Mapping all hedges in France, using high resolution images
Understanding the spatial distribution and temporal changes of landscape features such as hedges is crucial. Using high resolution images, we mapped all of them.
Dig a Tunnel Through the Center of the Earth to… Where?
If you, hypothetically, ignore the molten lava core. by Frank Jacobs, Big Think April 19, 2024
"...The title of the 1970s movie The China Syndrome refers to the idea that if you dig a hole through the Earth starting in the U.S., you end up in China. This map shows it ain’t so. In fact, only a little bit of China overlaps—and with the southern part of South America. Funnily enough, the good people of Argentina seem to have taken this into account when naming the city of Formosa, which is the antipode of Taiwan, the island off the Chinese coast formerly known as… Formosa. There’s almost no overlap in North America, none in Africa, and just a bit in Europe (the Iberian peninsula with New Zealand’s North Island)..."
Flemish cartogapher Abraham Ortelius was born #OTD in 1527.
He is best known for his work in creating the first modern atlas, titled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (1570). Before "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum," maps were typically scattered in various separate works. He collected & organized them into a single comprehensive volume, which proved to be a groundbreaking achievement in the history of cartography. His atlas included 53 maps, each depicting a different region of the world.