After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

In this age of all things digital, it’s heartening to see that some aspects of human history are still best accessed via old fashioned cartography. That is, through what most of us would call maps --- ...

Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

Recently I was perusing the maps as we prepared to head to Stately Willard Manor West. It’s out there near the “Left Coast.” Basically, we drive down and turn right. Those directions seem to make ...

"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first ...

RCC Perspectives, No. 4, Big Country, Big Issues: Canada's Environment, Culture, and History (2011), pp. 16-43 (28 pages) Attla, Catherine. K'etetaalkkaannee: The One Who Paddled Among the People and ...

The story of cartography at National Geographic begins with a storm. Nicknamed “the Great White Hurricane,” the blizzard shut down cities along the Atlantic coastline for four days in the spring of ...

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People seem to trust maps more than other forms of conveying information. It’s one thing to read that a city is racially segregated; seeing it on a map makes it seem more real. Our natural inclination ...

Rummage through your car's glove box, ignoring the piles of old receipts, the owner's manual, and maybe a long-forgotten Nirvana CD, and you'll notice there's something missing. Something that, ...