Different ways to “cut” or “center” a world map, essentially choosing where the map’s centered meridian sits. Changing that cut line completely changes how continents…
The island of Diego Garcia is a slender coral atoll nestled in the heart of the Indian Ocean. It possesses a history as turbulent and…
The Aral Sea: From Fourth-Largest Inland Sea to the World’s Newest Desert, A Cartographic History of Human-Driven Collapse and Medieval Precedent The Aral Sea has…
Why Scotland Was Tilted East: A Cartographic Mystery That Took Centuries to Fix If you’ve ever browsed old maps of Europe, you have noticed something…
Since its beginning in 1972, the Landsat program has been the single most transformative force in modern cartography. Before Landsat, mapping was a slow and…
Evolving mapping technologies have reshaped the history of cartography. From a dusty broom to artificial intelligence, these advancements revealed the world’s largest geoglyphs. The Nazca…
For nearly two hundred years, European maps depicted a massive body of water in the interior of Florida. It dominated the American Southeast. It was…
The De Virga World Map (circa 1411–1415) is one of the most intriguing artifacts in early European cartography. It is also under-appreciated in its historical…
The Cartographer of the Impossible: Percival Lowell and the Martian Cobwebs Welcome, fellow wanderers and lovers of the leaf-shaped map, to “The Whimsical Atlas.” Today,…
Stieler’s Hand-Atlas: how a German folio reshaped cartographic taste, 1816–1945 Adolf Stieler’s Hand-Atlas, formally Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude. Is…