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One-Day Oxford Symposium Explores Digital and Analog Maps

A Zero Declination World Map

Toronto’s New Transit Map, and Its Mapmaker

Warning Signs

WCVB’s Chronicle Looks at Maps

The Peoples of North America in 1776

The Cold War Seen Through Polar Projections

The Business of Selling Map Prints

Le Jour de la Carte

Making Mountains on Maps

Pre-War Japanese Tourist Maps

The History of Greenland’s Mapping as Context and Counterpoint

Greenland, the Mercator, and You-Know-Who

The Eclipse App

A New Map of Antarctica Suggests a Complex Landscape Under the Ice Sheet

Submarine Cable Maps from 2013 to 2025

Gladys West, 1930-2026

How Often Do Maps Appear in Literature?

A Book Roundup

A Global View of Wildfires

Miscellaneous Maps on Silk

Proposal 5

Some Canadian Homeowners Are Pushing Back Against Flood Maps

Monsters and Maps

Londonist Asks ChatGPT to Draw Maps

The State of The Map Room, Plus New Pages

The Onion on the New York Subway

Canada Map Sales to Close

Flyover City Tours Discontinued in Apple Maps

The Apollo Transforming Printer

‘Three Norths’ Leave England

Luke Jerram’s Mirror Moon

More on Le Guin’s Maps

2025 Spiral Globe Ornament

NPR on the Osher Map Library

A History of Swiss Cartography

Cincinnati and Columbus in 50 Maps

GIS and Enshittification

Alabama’s New Election Map Was Drawn by a Teenager

National Rail’s All Stations Interactive Route Map

Map Books of 2025 Updated, Plus Some Gift Suggestions

GPS Jamming Reported Around Venezuela

The Man Who Drew Wellington

Above & Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain

Maps from a North Korean Encyclopedia

NACIS 2025 on YouTube

Boston in 1:40 Scale

How Imaging Quasars Improved GPS Accuracy

300,000 Kilometres of Roman Roads

The Onion Doesn’t Miss

Mapping the 2025 (and 2021) Canadian Election Results

StateFace

More on Secret Maps

Ireland: Mapping the Island

Secret Maps, the Book

A Street Map of Early Modern Europe

New British Library Exhibition: Secret Maps

Ads Coming to Apple Maps: Report

More on the Exhibition of Le Guin’s Maps

Dein’s Transit Maps: London in the Style of Paris, and Vice Versa

Why FEMA Flood Maps Are Contentious

14 Million Water Wells in the U.S., Mapped

A Short Course on Maps as Historical Sources

South Korea Deciding Whether to Grant Google and Apple Access to Domestic Map Data

Two Mapmakers Awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Strava v. Garmin

Review: GeoAI

Review: Earth Shapers

Ethics in Cartography

First Radar Images from NISAR

Oculus Mundi

How Maps Lie

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Mapped at the Precinct Level

Two Books Map London

Northern’s New Network Map

2025 Ruderman Conference Announced

The Guardian Looks at Recent Map Mishaps

More on Suspected Russian GPS Interference in the Baltic

USGS Announces New National Geologic Map

The Big Map of Kent’s South End

The Map Behind the Preah Vihear Border Conflict

Suspected Russian GPS Interference Affects European Commission President’s Plane

A Video About the Map Center

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the 29 July 2025 M 8.8 Kamchatka Earthquake

Early Canadian Automobile Maps

The Unofficial Street View Economy

Using Emoji to Depict Train Delays