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In A Class of Its Own: The Thematic Cartography of Dr. George F. Jenks

Delve into Dr. George F. Jenks and the Kansas Industrial Development Commission’s 1952 atlas, “A Kansas Atlas,” which showcases Jenks’ innovative approaches to thematic cartography...

Bending the Chart to Fit the Road

Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps ...

Large scale hand-drawn, fictional map

Jerry Gretzinger started a map of a fictional city in 1963 with eight…Tags: fiction, Jerry Gretzinger

How to Turn Interactive Maps into Vector Graphics

This world map may look like an interactive map but it is actually an image. It is an SVG map of the world that I created in a couple of seconds using Polygrid Map2SVG.One of the g...

Condominiums: Exploring Jointly Ruled Territories Through Maps

This blog post explores examples of current and historical condominiums and how they are depicted on maps.

Cartographic justice for Africa

Jerry's Map Interactive

Most maps capture a moment in time. Jerry's Map has spent more than sixty years doing the exact opposite.Jerry's Map is the life's work of artist Jerry Gretzinger, who began drawin...

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?...

The Entire History of Human Warfare

Launched in late 2025, Prakrit Ojha's War Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes more than 8,500 historical battles. Spanning from 1500 BC to the present day, it offers an imm...

This Man Has Been Drawing a Map of an Imaginary Land Since 1963

At one time or another, we all feel twinges of anxiety about what will constitute the legacy we leave behind. Jerry Gretzinger may well be subject to just the same discomfort, but...

Security Training Needs Google Maps, Not Christopher Columbus

If you’re around my age, then you know the joy of using an old paper map. Not real joy, obviously. More the sort of joy normally associated with trying to keep track of 3 pages, ge...

How Maps Save Lives

Fifty thousand people were killed on February 6, 2023, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern and central Türkiye and northern and western Syria. The Night the Earth Shook...

Dual Maps Goes 3D

Dual Maps, an old Maps Mania favorite, has undergone a bit of a makeover this week. As you may have heard, Google recently removed its classic 45° bird's-eye aerial imagery from th...

The Geography of Country Names

There’s a pretty clear geographical split in what different countries call Greece. In most of Europe, the name comes from the Latin Graecia. But across North Africa, the Middle Eas...

Participate in G&M’s First Map Transcription Project!

The By the People crowdsourced transcription program invites volunteers to transcribe and review texts from the Library of Congress digital collections. The first Geography and Map...

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...

RCAHMW - Mapping a World of Change- Carto-Cymru The Wales Map Symposium 2026

RCAHMW - Mapping a World of Change- Carto-Cymru The Wales Map Symposium 2026