
The Map Room Blog
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The Map Room is a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe that covers everything from antique map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology.
The Map Room Blog
8h ago
Turkey—or Türkiye, as Erdoğan wants us to call it—has a Museum of Cartography, located in a military district in Ankara. Türkiye Today has a short profile. It seems … modest, all things considered ..read more
The Map Room Blog
21h ago
Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker has decided to get in on the whole unilateral name-changing thing. See also Barry Blitt’s cartoon in The New Yorker. Previously: Naming the Gulf; Google Maps to Use ‘Gulf of America’–Others Not… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
21h ago
Sure, the Gulf of Mexico thing got most of the attention (because it’s an international body of water), but Trump’s decision to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley is getting some pushback… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
3d ago
Google Maps launched 20 years ago today. Here’s what I posted at the time: First impressions. This is frigging amazing, with smooth scrolling and zooming: you’re not constantly reloading pages like in MapQuest. Huge mapping… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
1w ago
Yesterday’s post looked mainly at Google’s response to Trump’s renaming of Denali and the Gulf of Mexico. Today some news about Apple and OpenStreetMap. On Daring Fireball, John Gruber points to OpenStreetMap forum discussions about… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
1w ago
Lots of news coverage about Google’s announcement that it will follow Trump’s lead and change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America (and Denali to Mount McKinley) on Google Maps once the GNIS database has… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
2w ago
In addition to being an author in her own right, Kathleen Jennings is an illustrator who draws maps for other fantasy novels. For a recent work—The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones—she takes us behind the… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
2w ago
Moon Lidar is a visualization of some six billion measurements from the LRO’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter produced by software consultancy Hobu. Details here. Pretty impressive, and pretty, but it’s more of a proof of… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
2w ago
The Icelandic Institute of Natural History has mapped every known appearance of polar bears in Iceland: “Polar bears are not native to Iceland, although they do occasionally turn up in Iceland and are thus classified… More ..read more
The Map Room Blog
2w ago
The Public’s Radio talks with Andrew Middleton, who you will remember took over the Map Center in Pawtucket, RI in 2023. The focus of the piece is on how Andrew came to own the store… More ..read more