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#30DayMapChallenge: 21st century cartographers
A wonderful challenge that allows us to dive into the work of some of today’s most creative cartographers and illustrators.
Nov 30
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An official atlas of North Korea
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
Nov 16
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Islarios: collections of islands
A journey through some of the first islarios, published between the 15th and 16th centuries.
Oct 16
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Miguel García Álvarez
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A world in perspective
The history of the first bird’s-eye view maps of cities, Saul Steinberg’s map and its importance in satirical cartography.
Oct 12
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Tourist maps of Spain, by Jacques Liozu (1953)
A collection of tourist maps of Spain from the mid-20th century, decades before the tourism boom.
Sep 21
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Here be dragons, beyond the known world
Maps tell us about places that exist, but every so often they also give free rein to imagination and fantasy, bringing us stories of monsters, lions…
Sep 12
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Exploring the ocean floor
How humans discovered the ocean floor, surveyed it and managed to represent it on wonderful maps.
Aug 29
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The “correct” map
The Mercator map creates distortions. Just like the Peters map and any map with any projection on a plane. This is the story of the correct map, the map…
Aug 24
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Miguel García Álvarez
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Three maps to understand the Internet
The Internet came to revolutionise our lives, and these three maps show how it has managed to connect us all.
Jul 31
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The true size of countries
Cartographic projections distort countries, which can lead us to believe that some countries are larger or smaller than others. Sometimes, this is not…
Jul 19
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Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it
The history of a compromise that was created to resolve an unsolvable geometry problem. The virtues and shortcomings of some of the most iconic map…
Jul 5
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Miguel García Álvarez
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The Atlas for a Nuclear War
A detailed propaganda atlas published in 1982 against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, dealing with their past, present and possible futures.
Jun 5
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Miguel García Álvarez
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