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Blogs about Maps

15 blogs about Maps.

  1. Brilliant Maps
    Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time. By Ian Wright. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Population Along The Danube River
    Map created by Sebastian Gräff at theeuropeancorrespondentThe map above shows the population density within a 50km band along the Danube river: Here are the cities shown: Regensburg ~145,000 Ulm ~130,000 Vienna ~2,000,000 Bratislava ~475,000 Budapest …
    By Brilliant Maps, 615 words
  2. ckochis.com | Craig Kochis
    Engineering articles by Craig Kochis. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS
    How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.
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  3. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
    The David Rumsey Collection includes 18th and 19th century historical North and South American atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and separate maps including wall, pocket, and manuscript. 🇺🇸 More info

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    A Mile Long Map At Burning Man 2024
    Can a map be a mile long? Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired Magazine) and David Rumsey created one with The Speed of The Earth art installation, a roughly one mile long line of 30 …
    By David Rumsey, 305 words
  4. Doug McCune - Data Artist
    I'm an Oakland artist who embraces data exploration and map making in an attempt to come to terms with the chaos of urban environments. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Friends
    20246″ x 6″ x 1″Bronze, black patina The post Friends first appeared on Doug McCune.
    By Doug, 16 words
  5. Imagico.de | blog
    By Christoph Hormann. 🇩🇪 More info

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    Drawing the line #4 – Plumbing
    This post adds another chapter to my previous series of posts on line signatures in maps. Back in the first part of the series i explained and illustrated how the sophisticated techniques in using line …
    By chris, 960 words
  6. KnowWhere - GIScussions
    Combines my thoughts and observations on UK geobusiness, with some largely irrelevant endeavours to incorporate my love of Arsenal with geography. By Steven Feldman. 🇬🇧 More info

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    W3W – It’sGetting.Better.AlltheTime
    Excuse the corny title and associated video but I couldn’t resist it. What3Words’s accounts for 2023 have just been published and the cynics who have doubted W3W’s commercial model were confounded by the outstanding progress …
    By Steven, 483 words
  7. Lat × Long
    A weblog exploring and documenting geospatial technology, data and standards on the Web. By Oliver Roick. 🇦🇺 More info

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    "GeoAI: key developments & insights"
    Link: https://anitagraser.com/2024/11/04/geoai-key-developments-insights/ Off the back of a specialist meeting on GeoAI, Anita Graser shares a summary of recent research from scholars in the field.
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  8. Mapping London
    Highlighting the best London maps. By Ollie O'Brien, James Cheshire. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023
    The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically
    By Ollie, 29 words
  9. The Map Room
    Blogging about maps since 2003. By Jonathan Crowe. 🇨🇦 More info

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    Karen Wynn Fonstad’s Belated NYT Obituary
    Karen Wynn Fonstad, the cartographer of fantasy worlds best known for her Atlas of Middle-earth, died in March 2005 aged 59. Nearly twenty years later, she gets a comprehensive obituary in the New York Times,… …
    By Jonathan Crowe, 42 words
  10. Maps Mania
    Dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them. By Keir Clarke. 🇬🇧 More info

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    LA Fires Damage Inspections Dashboard
    Around 105,000 Los Angeles residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders, with an additional 87,000 under evacuation warnings. Many of these residents are uncertain and deeply concerned about the safety of their homes. So far, more …
    By Keir Clarke, 64 words
  11. mvexel's Diary | OpenStreetMap
    Recent diary entries. By Martijn van Exel. 🇺🇸 More info

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    A note on old imported landuse=quarry in the United States
    In the early days of OSM, when the map was formless and empty, mappers in the United States conducted data imports without much discussion, because there were just not a lot of people to discuss …
    By mvexel, 354 words
  12. somethingaboutmaps
    My name is Daniel Huffman, and I am a cartographer. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Journey’s End
    Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I …
    By Daniel Huffman, 663 words
  13. Stats, Maps n Pix
    This blog features posts about statistics, maps and images. By Alasdair Rae. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Thanks for stopping by
    It's time to bring the curtain down on Stats, Maps n Pix now, after 1.5 million page views and 150 posts. I'll leave the blog archived here, but if you're looking for me, you can …
    By Alasdair Rae, 505 words
  14. Strange Maps - Big Think
    A special series by Frank Jacobs. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Cosmic first: supermassive black hole caught “turning on” in real-time
    At the center of practically every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. The one in our Milky Way is about four million times the mass of our Sun, but others can be billions or even …
    By Ethan Siegel, 2,584 words
  15. Transit Maps
    A site devoted to the design and social impact of transit maps - subway maps, metro maps, bus maps, rail maps, ferry maps and more! By Cameron Booth. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
    Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, …
    By Cameron Booth, 420 words