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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 1d

I suppose I should mention this every once in a while:

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 5d

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.

All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 4d

Tonika Lewis Johnson, whose Folded Map Project explores decades of segregation in Chicago neighbourhoods, and Margaret Wickens Pearce, whom Map Room readers might remember for Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada, are among… More

Two Mapmakers Awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Tonika Lewis Johnson, whose Folded Map Project explores decades of segregation in Chicago neighbourhoods, and Margaret Wickens Pearce, whom Map Room readers might remember for Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada, are among… More

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 4d

CBC News reports on Strava’s lawsuit against Garmin, which alleges patent infringement and breach of contract. Strava claims that Garmin is violating Strava’s patents relating to heatmaps and segments, and also says Garmin’s new developer… More

Strava v. Garmin

CBC News reports on Strava’s lawsuit against Garmin, which alleges patent infringement and breach of contract. Strava claims that Garmin is violating Strava’s patents relating to heatmaps and segments, and also says Garmin’s new developer… More

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 5d

Hello from the 5th Barry Ruderman conference on cartography at Stanford.

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 5d

#30DayMapChallenge - November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have been released! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/30-d...

30 Day Map Challenge

Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 7d

Save some room on the AI bandwagon for ArcGIS. This seems to be the central message of GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS, a slim (only 120-page) volume of articles and posts that previously appeared, for the most… More

Review: GeoAI

Save some room on the AI bandwagon for ArcGIS. This seems to be the central message of GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS, a slim (only 120-page) volume of articles and posts that previously appeared, for the most… More

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Sebas van den Brink @sebasvandenbrink.nl · 9d

Dutch zip codes (postcode) form a unique alphanumerical system in which one only needs the 4 digits and 2 letters combined with a house number to find any unique address in the country. Get the map: www.studiolegenda.com/produ... 🔹

Postcode Map of the Netherlands

The Dutch Postal Code Map of the Netherlands is truly a unique map. Every municipality is on this map, with every first two digits of the Dutch postal code system (postcode) represented in it. At the bottom you'll find a bit of history about the uniq

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 11d

This week on The Map Room:

First Radar Images from NISAR
www.maproomblog.com/2025/09/firs...

Ethics in Cartography
www.maproomblog.com/2025/09/ethi...

Review: Earth Shapers
www.maproomblog.com/2025/10/revi...

Imagery of Maine’s Mount Desert Island captured by NISAR’s L-band radar on 21 Aug 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 11d

The title of this book does not quite capture what Maxim Samson is doing. Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way isn’t really about shaping the earth,… More

Review: Earth Shapers

The title of this book does not quite capture what Maxim Samson is doing. Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way isn’t really about shaping the earth,… More

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 16d

Nat Case writes about the ethics of cartography in Psyche: You might think there’s not a lot to get moralistic about in the world of mapping. You would be wrong. For decades now, various critiques… More

Ethics in Cartography

Nat Case writes about the ethics of cartography in Psyche: You might think there’s not a lot to get moralistic about in the world of mapping. You would be wrong. For decades now, various critiques… More

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 17d

Thoughtful essay on the ethics of mapmaking by Sam Dresser psyche.co/ideas/what-m... "While we may frame big moral issues as absolutes, we need to acknowledge that we are constantly negotiating even with them"

A world map that illustrates the article

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 17d

Preliminary images are in from the newly launched NISAR Earth-observing radar satellite. A joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NISAR will use L-band and S-band synthetic aperture radar to produce… More

First Radar Images from NISAR

Preliminary images are in from the newly launched NISAR Earth-observing radar satellite. A joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), NISAR will use L-band and S-band synthetic aperture radar to produce… More

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Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 19d

Some good news from space, as the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission publishes its first synthetic aperture radar images of Earth. This spacecraft has a heckin' big antenna (a dish 12 meters across) for bouncing L- and S-band (25- and 10-cm) radio waves off the surface www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...

NASA-ISRO Satellite Sends First Radar Images of Earth’s Surface

Preliminary images from the most powerful Earth radar satellite ever launched offer a tantalizing glimpse of the science the mission will be able to deliver.

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 18d

Geographical has an article about Oculus Mundi, the online home of the Sunderland Collection, a private collection of 13th- to 19th-century maps amassed over the years by its eponymous founder, Neil Sunderland, that sat in… More

Oculus Mundi

Geographical has an article about Oculus Mundi, the online home of the Sunderland Collection, a private collection of 13th- to 19th-century maps amassed over the years by its eponymous founder, Neil Sunderland, that sat in… More

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 19d

Last week Andrew Middleton (he of The Map Center) gave a presentation at the Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield, Massachusetts. Titled “How Maps Lie,” it’s the kind of introductory talk that can never be done… More

How Maps Lie

Last week Andrew Middleton (he of The Map Center) gave a presentation at the Dickinson Memorial Library in Northfield, Massachusetts. Titled “How Maps Lie,” it’s the kind of introductory talk that can never be done… More

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Jeremy Garniaux @mapper.bsky.social · 20d

Mapstodon.Space domain name provider is experiencing a DDoS attack. It's being mitigated, but our instance is down in the meantime. Sorry for the inconvenience. You can follow the incident status here: status.alwaysdata.com/operation/48...

#MapstodonSpace #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

alwaysdata - statuts des serveurs

Vérifiez l'état de nos services d'un seul coup d'œil

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 20d

@mapper.bsky.social Mapstodon n’est plus? Voici ce qui me salue quand je le visite.

Safari Can’t Find the Server: Safari can’t open the page “https://mapstodon.space” because Safari can’t find the server “mapstodon.space”. [screenshot]

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 24d

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

How Maps Lie - September 19, 2025

YouTube video by Bernardston-Northfield Community Television

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 25d

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

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

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

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 28d

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

Two Books Map London

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

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · Sep 9

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

Northern’s New Network Map

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

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · Sep 9

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

2025 Ruderman Conference Announced

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

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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · Sep 9

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

The Guardian Looks at Recent Map Mishaps

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

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Mike Hall @thisismikehall.com · Sep 9

🚨 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

Cover art for The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing a map of the County of London in 1901 and the former Metropolitan Boroughs

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing text and illustrations including an illustration of a dog

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing various colourful statistical maps of Greater London

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