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Cartography
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Cartography-related materials.
Multidimensional Maps That Provide New Perspectives On New York City
The world’s most mapped city, as you’ve never seen it before. THE UPPER EAST SIDE IS literally leafy. Pear,…
Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?
A LITTLE OVER 2,000 MILES from Australia, there is a cluster of distinctively shaped islands. The northern one is…
Mercator and the Map that ‘Squared the Circle’
Even with today’s modern technology, able to digitize almost anything, representing the world on a flat map so…
Historic Preservation And Planning Meets Modern Mapping
The historic district in the small seaport city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire is an architectural treasure, with a…
MIT Is Drawing 10,000 Maps To Save The World
The social computing group wants to initiate social change via data visualisation at the rate of a map…
Chicago, The Last Great Capital Of Cartography
As America grew in the late 19th century, so did mapmaking—and Chicago was at the heart of it.…
City Maps Through The Ages
From London’s cholera outbreak to the siege of Frankfurt, these are the works of the earliest data gurus, who…