Search results for 20Th Century Cartography

SYMAPping the Puget Sound: Exploring Early Techniques in Computer Cartography

The 1970 Census was the first United States decennial census to be released in machine-readable format, allowing cartographers sudden access to large amounts of aggregated demograp...

The First Systematic Survey Meets Modern DEM

Mapterhorn is an open-source terrain data pipeline. Its core idea is deceptively simple: take the best available open elevation datasets from around the world, normalize them, and...

Cartographic justice for Africa

History of mapping the Moon

For most of history, maps of the Moon were based only on the…Tags: cartography, Inverting Vision, moon

The New World Order - Mapped

Atlas Absurdo If there is one thing we've learned in the 21st Century, it is that planet Earth is in need of some major reorganization. The first task in this global reshuffle?...

A Drifting World: The Supercontinent of Pangaea

Around 200 million years ago, the supercontinent of Pangaea began to break apart into the continents we know today. This post will explore the discovery of this continental drift t...

Cartographers review movie maps

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…Tags: cartography, fiction, movies

Address to Impress

There are already loads of online tools available to help you create your own map posters. Many of these, such as Mapiful and Mapness, allow you to design your poster, pay a fee, a...

Where Europe Is Emptying

CORRECTIV’s latest story map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, is a superb example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuance...

The New Era of American Migration

Last month, CORRECTIV released an interactive map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, which visualizes Europe's general pattern of rural depopulation and the subtle t...

Mapping the scale of the conflict.

The Cosmographical Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris

Opicinus de Canistris was a thirteenth century Italian priest, mystic, writer and cartographer who created fantastic cosmological diagrams that literally, turn the world on its hea...

Time Traveling with OHM

Today I've been playing with OpenHistoricalMap and exploring how it can be used to create a map that visualizes how a country's borders have changed over time.History is rarely sta...

Legible Rude Places Map

This morning I was browsing Gary Gale's Vaguely Rude Places map and realised that thanks to my deteriorating eye-sight I could no longer read all the hilariously rude place-names a...

The Elusive Delta of the Niger River

It took centuries for European maps to accurately portray the route of Africa's third-longest river. Does its delta lie in Egypt, Senegal, or Nigeria - or could there even be two?

15 Minute Europe

The 15 Minute City Score Europe Map shows how easy it is for people in European cities to reach everyday services - such as shops, schools, healthcare, parks, and public transport...