This week on The Map Room: Online Maps Roundup: June 2026 www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/onli... The American Atlas www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/the-...

How maps became tools for claiming rights https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/how-maps-became-tools-for-claiming-rights/

Scans from a 1776 atlas of the Americas, published in London as the American revolution was getting under way, have been posted by JSTOR. The story from JSTOR Daily: In the summer of 1775, shortly… More

Apple’s operating system upgrades this year seem to be focusing on scores of small improvements along with a ton of AI integrations so it’s no surprise that announced upgrades to Apple Maps in iOS/iPadOS/macOS 27… More

The Atlas Behind the Revolution While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas. Via @pematson.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/the-atlas-be...

This week on The Map Room: Little Blue Dot www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/litt... Return to Jerry's Map www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/retu... Oxfordshire Sheldon Tapestry Map Will Be Taken Off Display www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/oxfo...

Bodleian Map Room Blog: “In early September one of the library treasures, the Oxfordshire Sheldon tapestry, will be taken off display. One of a set of four there’s been a Sheldon tapestry on display in… More

Jerry’s Map is still going strong. For decades, Jerry Gretzinger has been creating a map made up of thousands of individual paper tiles that are created, revised and even painted over based on an arcane,… More

Out this week: Little Blue Dot: How the Global Positioning System Shaped the Modern World by Katherine Dunn. From the publishers’ descriptions (plural: it’s out from Bloomsbury in the U.S. and HarperCollins imprint Mudlark in… More

This week on The Map Room: Pokémon Go Player Scans Being Used for Military Drone Navigation, Per Report www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/poke... Space Jam www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/spac... Cartes imaginaires: Inventer des mondes www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/cart...

Cartes imaginaires: Inventer des mondes, an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France running from 24 March to 19 July 2026, explores maps of the imaginary, the legendary and the literary from medieval to modern… More

GPS jamming has come to space. Researchers have identified a Russian satellite as the source of 10-second radio bursts that have been disrupting GNSS signals. Occasional bursts of energy from a Russian missile-detection satellite have… More

Haye Kesteloo reports at DroneXL: “Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned… More

"Illustrations, diagrams, and other non-topographical features on maps from the European Middle Ages and the Renaissance weren’t mere “decoration”, as old-fashioned map historians insist; they were part of what maps were for." Latest newsletter: medieval maps! buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

This week on The Map Room: Exonym Atlas www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/exon... Renaissance Maps at the American Museum in Bath www.maproomblog.com/2026/06/rena...

The American Museum and Gardens in Bath, England has a collection of Renaissance maps that came to them from the private collection of the museum’s co-founder, Dallas Pratt. This collection was the subject of an… More

An exonym is a place name used by outsiders—for example, English speakers using Germany for Deutschland. The Exonym Atlas explores how other languages name countries and groups those names by usage. Fascinating to see the… More

This week on The Map Room: Power Lines www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/powe... Did Geo Know? www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/did-... A Chronology of Ocean Floor Maps www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/a-ch... A Patient Gulf of Mexico Explainer www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/a-pa...

It’s been more than a year since I last posted about the “Gulf of America” nonsense, but here’s something new to share: a video from World Maps Online in which Paul explains why his maps… More

One chapter in James Cheshire’s Library of Lost Maps (reviewed here) is dedicated to the maps of the ocean floor created by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. A new post on the book’s website now… More

Maps.com has launched a series of short videos on YouTube. “Did Geo Know? explores interesting geographic phenomena through the lens of maps. These animated shorts cover everything from the world’s tallest waterfalls and youngest islands to the longest place names and borders visible… More

Out this month from Black Dog & Leventhal: Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World by Peter Keating. From the publisher: In this book, award-winning journalist Peter Keating has assembled dozens… More

NOAA GOES satellite imagery helps meteorologists identify new wildfires, enabling firefighters to more quickly and effectively respond, potentially saving lives and millions of dollars in damage. My latest piece for Yahoo: creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

This week’s posts: Maps and Art: Ed Fairburn, Maps as Decor www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/maps... Boston in 50 Maps www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/bost... Designing Maps for an Apple Watch App www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/desi... Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/sier...

A collaboration between the California Geological Survey and the USGS, the Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas “provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of California’s most iconic landscape to date. This web page hosts the… More

In a blog post, David Smith discusses the challenges of getting good maps on the Apple Watch version of Pedometer++, version 8 of which shipped last month. “App design on watchOS is a really fun—but… More

Out this week from Belt Publishing: Boston in 50 Maps by Andy Woodruff. From the publisher: Covering four distinct categories (“The Making of Boston,” “The Lay of the Land,” “Getting Around,” and “People and Culture”… More

Geoawesome’s Aleks Buczkowski looks at the art of Ed Fairburn, who combines portraiture with maps—basically, maps with a human face. “Fairburn’s work sits at the intersection of cartography and portraiture. It reminds us that maps… More

HEY YOU GUYS. By @jakesteinberg.com from @beltpublishing.bsky.social. Cover by @downpourdw.bsky.social

Thanks to Wayne Miller at Salve Regina University for doing a little write up on The Map Center for Ocean State Stories. Bless him for slicing through all of my metaphysical bullshit to get to something worth reading. www.oceanstatestories.org/new-map-cent...

Boston in 50 Maps comes out in a week! Here’s a quick glimpse inside the pages to hopefully add a little brightness to your day, especially if you have a nostalgic fondness for McCloskey's book! (I added a couple bonus pictures of the book/ducklings) More info: beltpublishing.com/products/bos...

Only one post this week: it’s my review of THIS WAY UP, the book by the Map Men Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman. www.maproomblog.com/2026/05/revi...

"Fifteen Maps that Changed How We See the Ocean Floor" Based on his research for The Library of Lost Maps, James Cheshire of @ucl.ac.uk pulled together these seminal works of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen! cc @seabed2030.bsky.social 🌊 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 libraryoflostmaps.com/2026/05/06/f...

It’s been ten years since Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman teamed up to form Voltron launch an occasional and irregular series of videos about maps. They called themselves the Avengers Map Men, and in each… More

This week on The Map Room (1/2): The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants Is Before the U.S. Supreme Court Today www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/the-... A Close Look at the Verbiest Map www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/a-cl...

Because of continental drift, the ground beneath your feet has occupied a different position on the Earth over the ages. Paleolatitude is a tool that shows the latitude of every location on earth was since… More

Fifty years after it first came out, and ten years after the sale of DeLorme to Garmin spooked Mainers who worried that it would be going away, the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer remains a cultural… More

NEW RELEASE! Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas The Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of the Sierra Nevada that has ever been made. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

Someone is selling a theodolite on Facebook Marketplace. I have no use for a theodolite—I have no idea how to even use one—but I’m still tempted.

A detailed look at the Verbiest Map from the University of Michigan’s Clements Library. Also known as the Kun yu quan tu (坤輿全圖), this is a 1674 Chinese-language map of the world by Jesuit priest Ferdinand… More

Are geofence warrants unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Geofence warrants require a data provider to provide information on all users and devices within a given area during a given time period.… More

This week on The Map Room: Heritage Group Seeks Listed Status for First and Last Trig Pillars www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/heri... Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Second Edition www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/atla...

A new edition of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (the first edition was published in 2010) came out earlier this month from Yale University Press. From the publisher: In the first edition of Atlas… More

The Twentieth Century Society, a heritage group that campaigns to preserve 20th-century British buildings, is trying to get Grade II-listed status for the first and last trig pillars of the Retriangulation of Great Britain, which… More

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

Trust in Maps - a keynote I gave at EuroCarto in 2024, and at the Royal Geographical Society in 2025. If you're interested in Trust, ethics, politics, and maps then here's an hour of my thoughts on that very topic. youtube.com/watch?v=gG98...

This week on The Map Room: The Physics of GPS www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/the-... Apple Denies Removing Lebanese Towns and Villages from Apple Maps www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/appl... Alice Hudson and Women in Cartography www.maproomblog.com/2026/04/alic...

Alice Hudson, former chief of the New York Public Library’s map division from 1981 to 2009, died in 2024. Last month The Cartographic Journal published a long look at Hudson’s life and career, written by… More

Claims circulating on social media that Apple erased towns and villages in southern Lebanon from Apple Maps as a kind of support for the Israeli invasion are not true, says Apple. Apple’s coverage of Lebanon… More