Spending my evening in Northfield MA for a library talk because I love libraries and I love attention. www.youtube.com/live/1qnTKEu...

VoteHub has released a precinct-level map of the 2024 U.S. presidential election results that includes vote density as well as margin—in other words, taking into account how many votes are in a district, not just… More

Two books out this year, both from Batsford, explore London through maps. Vincent Westbrook’s Modern London Maps focuses on more than 60 maps from the 20th century. Like many books of this kind, Modern London… More

Matt Harrison explains how his firm, Transport Designed, redesigned the network map for Northern, a train company that handles passenger services across northern England, from Liverpool to Newcastle. Northern’s historic network map, whilst representing the… More

The fifth biennial Ruderman Conference on Cartography, which will be held 8-10 October 2025 at Stanford’s David Rumsey Map Center, focuses on the cartography of “anything but the earth’s surface,” viz., astronomy, geology, oceanography. Schedule,… More

With the organizers of the Great North Run apologizing for printing t-shirts and medals with a map of Sunderland rather than Newcastle, the Guardian takes the opportunity to look at recent instances of map mistakes,… More

🚨 One month to go till THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social hits the shops! Packed with maps and illustrations, learn about London's 32 boroughs, how they came to be, the fascinating places in each, and much more history and trivia besides. Preorder today! ℹ️ bit.ly/BorosLdn

The David Rumsey Map Center is holding their biennial cartography conference 10/8 - 10/10. It’s free and there’s an online option. The theme is “Above and Below” and will feature talks on “cartography of anything but the earth’s surface.”Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/barry-lawr...

A long line of cartological mishaps... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Lots of coverage at Polish news network TVP World on suspected Russian GPS jamming in the Baltic region. A report submitted by the Baltic states to ICAO found that 123,000 flights were disrupted by GPS… More

Nearly 123,000 flights over Baltic airspace, including Poland, were disrupted in the first four months of 2025 due to Russian interference with navigation signals, the latest International Civil Aviation Organization report has found.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

The USGS announced a new, more detailed national geologic map last week. The new USGS map, called The Cooperative National Geologic Map, was created using more than 100 preexisting geologic maps from various sources and is… More

Jennifer Mapes created a large corkboard map to illustrate the history of Kent, Ohio’s South End, a neighbourhood inhabited by railroad workers, immigrants, and African Americans moving north during the Great Migration. I purposefully created… More

On the Geographical magazine website, Tim Marshall explains how a 1907 topographical map fuels a current-day border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. And without any imagery of the map at all (right). It’s about the… More

Russia is suspected of engaging in GPS jamming that disrupted the navigation systems of a plane carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on a flight to Plovdiv, Bulgaria: BBC News, The Guardian, Reuters.… More

I ran into my member of Congress a couple months ago at an event. He said "Oh yeah, hey how are you? You're still doing The Map Center? It's still.... in business?" Eh, it's nice to be remembered. To answer, I wrote a State of the Map Store blog entry here: www.mapcenter.com/blog/blog-po...

@livingmaps.bsky.social Tickets are now on sale at the British Library for "Secret Mapping: Mapping Secrecy" Professor Jerry Brotton will host an afternoon dedicated to maps and their secrets!! events.bl.uk/events/onlin...

A short video about the Map Center, the Rhode Island-based map store that, you will recall, Andrew Middleton took over two years ago. The video came about, Andrew says, when a customer came back and… More

The USGS has posted a “geonarrative” (i.e., a StoryMap) that delves into great detail about the seismology of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that took place on 29 July 2025 off the Kamchatka Peninsula, providing history,… More

The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...

Library and Archives Canada has posted a four-part series on early automobile maps to their Facebook page (they don’t have a blog, just social media accounts), featuring examples from their collection: Nova Scotia, Montreal, Banff… More

Back in September 2024, Phil Edwards explored the hidden, unofficial economy Google Street View, where third parties spend money and resources uploading 360-degree imagery to promote a region or tourist attraction or local business or… More

It’s a single animated map in a larger, infographic-rich Bloomberg CityLab article about how NJ Transit is the least reliable New York City area commuter rail service, but you can’t help but pay attention to… More

Miguel García Álvarez weighs in on the Correct the Map campaign to replace the Mercator projection with Equal Earth: I think the Equal Earth projection is an excellent compromise. But as a cartography enthusiast, it… More

The “correct” map The Mercator map creates distortions. Just like the Peters map and any map with any projection on a plane. This is the story of the correct map, the map that does not exist. www.cartographerstale.com/p/the-correc...

This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...

Oh here it is! youtu.be/Dj9uKpk3Idk?...

The Word for World is both an upcoming exhibition and an upcoming book exploring the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin—i.e., the maps she herself made for worlds like Earthsea. When Ursula K. Le Guin… More

“In the end, what’s most remarkable about the campaign against Oregon’s wildfire map isn’t that misinformation found an audience. It’s that it worked.” Pro Publica looks at how misinformation and conspiracy theories led to the… More

@itspangler.bsky.social gives an overview of the map resources at @bplmaps.bsky.social and tools for turning them into geodata: openstreetmap.us/events/state... #StateOfTheMapUS #SOTMUS

Eclipse Atlas is the third iteration of Michael Zeiler’s solar eclipse map websites. First there was Eclipse-Maps.com, which launched in 2010; then came the Great American Eclipse website to cover the North American total and… More

Google has announced that Street View imagery is now available for Nepal. Meanwhile, Apple observers are reporting that cycling directions are rolling out for Hong Kong and Taiwan in Apple Maps (AppleInsider, MacRumors).

A new front has been opened in the never-ending war against the Mercator projection. The African Union endorses Correct the Map’s campaign to replace the Mercator projection (which diminishes the relative size of Africa) with… More

The Mercator Projection was never supposed to be a standard for showing people what the world looks like and it's quite bad at that. Switching to Equal Earth is a good call even if I think some of the rhetoric is hyperbolic. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Logistics advice for the independent map seller. The Independent Map Artists (previously) have compiled their experiences of, and opinions about, dealing with online marketplaces, printers and shippers—the logistics vital to running a business selling printed… More

Reading Historic Maps: A Practical Guide “is an educational resource designed to help students and educators better understand historic maps. Focusing on depictions of navigation and conquest in world maps, the guide explains where to… More

A little bit of my writing about map design: pronghornmaps.com/blog/simple-...

Speaking of tools for generating maps for the blind and visually impaired (previously), there’s also TMAP (Tactile Maps Automated Production) from Lighthouse’s MAD Lab. TMAP is a screen reader-friendly tool for creating tactile street maps. Raised… More

Just submitted my 'tiny map' entry for the @nacis.bsky.social map gallery! @kartenvergnugen.bsky.social is organizing this amazing idea. 4"x6" maps only! Deadline is Aug. 31 to submit the form, and still have time to make adjustments before #NACIS2025 in October! Form: nacis.org/gallery-regi...

It’s been a while since I last posted something about light-pollution maps, which are used by astronomers to determine the best places to observe the night sky. But a couple of online light-pollution maps came… More

Randall Munroe, author of the xkcd web comic, posts a surprising amount of map-related content, which I invariably end up linking to here. With some exceptions, they fall into one of two categories, each of… More

The word of the day is 'toponym'

The Sunday Times reports [Apple News+ link] that a small family business selling map-themed picnic blankets has reached a settlement with the Ordnance Survey. Rubbaglove’s PACMAT series was launched in partnership with the OS, but… More

Touch Mapper is an open source project (GitHub) for generating 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired. The maps use OpenStreetMap data and produce a file that can be printed on almost any 3D… More

Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres xkcd.com/3122/

David vs Goliath, not a great look for @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social Ordnance Survey settles in ‘David and Goliath’ design dispute with family www.thetimes.com/article/f941...

Several things coming up at Chicago’s Newberry Library in October: An exhibition, Mapping Outside the Lines, runs from 9 October 2025 to 14 February 26 at the Newberry’s Trienens Galleries. For centuries, mapmakers have experimented… More