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Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
Jacob Weinbren has mapped the results of the 2025 Canadian federal election at the polling station level, along with the 2021 results so that we can see how the vote changed. Any project of this… More
Mapping the 2025 (and 2021) Canadian Election Results
Jacob Weinbren has mapped the results of the 2025 Canadian federal election at the polling station level, along with the 2021 results so that we can see how the vote changed. Any project of this… More
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November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jacob Weinbren has mapped the results of the 2025 Canadian federal election at the polling station level, along with the 2021 results so that we can see how the vote changed. Any project of this… More
StateFace is a font made up of tiny state shapes—all 50 U.S. states, plus D.C. and the lower 48 as a whole. M is Idaho, v is Wisconsin and so on. Seems like it’d be… More
StateFace
StateFace is a font made up of tiny state shapes—all 50 U.S. states, plus D.C. and the lower 48 as a whole. M is Idaho, v is Wisconsin and so on. Seems like it’d be… More
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
StateFace is a font made up of tiny state shapes—all 50 U.S. states, plus D.C. and the lower 48 as a whole. M is Idaho, v is Wisconsin and so on. Seems like it’d be… More
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canada-election.pages.dev This is my election map of Canada by polling district - interested what you think!
Canadian Election Results 2021-2025
Interactive map showing Canadian federal election results and vote swing analysis between 2021 and 2025
canada-election.pages.dev
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
canada-election.pages.dev This is my election map of Canada by polling district - interested what you think!
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New to me so sharing -- for those of you who didn't know, there's a font available that gives you tiny US state shapes that can be used as design elements.
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
StateFace
propublica.github.io
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New to me so sharing -- for those of you who didn't know, there's a font available that gives you tiny US state shapes that can be used as design elements.
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
it's called State Face, a project by @propublica.org
propublica.github.io/stateface/
(thanks for sharing this, @propublica.org !)
#GISChat
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Discount bundles on allllll published 50 Maps books: 10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. Stock up for the holidays!
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Discount bundles on allllll published 50 Maps books: 10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. Stock up for the holidays!
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Do I know any Indigenous folks who make maps? Got a request for a paid design/cartography job and it'd be rad if I could connect you with them.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Do I know any Indigenous folks who make maps? Got a request for a paid design/cartography job and it'd be rad if I could connect you with them.
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Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
The Roman Empire’s Entire Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing
A new study identified over 68,000 more miles of ancient Roman roads than were previously known.
gizmodo.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Researchers used archaeological & historical records,topographic maps & satellite imagery to create Itiner-e,a new high-resolution digital dataset & map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 AD. It charts 185,896 miles (299,171 km) of roads across almost 1,544,409 square miles (4,000,000 square km)
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In our latest blog post, we share our philosophy of dark mode basemaps. What are dark maps good for, and why might you need one? How do you design a dark mode map that is both beautiful and functional? All this and more, now on the blog at stamen.com/stamens-dark...
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In our latest blog post, we share our philosophy of dark mode basemaps. What are dark maps good for, and why might you need one? How do you design a dark mode map that is both beautiful and functional? All this and more, now on the blog at stamen.com/stamens-dark...
This week on The Map Room:
Ireland: Mapping the Island
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/irel...
More on Secret Maps
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/more...
Ireland: Mapping the Island
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/irel...
More on Secret Maps
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/more...
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This week on The Map Room:
Ireland: Mapping the Island
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/irel...
More on Secret Maps
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/more...
Ireland: Mapping the Island
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/irel...
More on Secret Maps
www.maproomblog.com/2025/11/more...
Doug Specht has a piece about the British Library’s exhibition Secret Maps in The Conversation. “The exhibition does not shy away from difficult topics. Maps tracing the infrastructure of apartheid, or those produced to facilitate… More
More on Secret Maps
Doug Specht has a piece about the British Library’s exhibition Secret Maps in The Conversation. “The exhibition does not shy away from difficult topics. Maps tracing the infrastructure of apartheid, or those produced to facilitate… More
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November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Doug Specht has a piece about the British Library’s exhibition Secret Maps in The Conversation. “The exhibition does not shy away from difficult topics. Maps tracing the infrastructure of apartheid, or those produced to facilitate… More
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Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
tcnv.link
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
RTÉ has published an excerpt from Ireland: Mapping the Island by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, the latest book of cartographic histories published by Birlinn (though Birlinn’s website seems to be offline at the moment).… More
Ireland: Mapping the Island
RTÉ has published an excerpt from Ireland: Mapping the Island by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, the latest book of cartographic histories published by Birlinn (though Birlinn’s website seems to be offline at the moment).… More
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November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
RTÉ has published an excerpt from Ireland: Mapping the Island by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, the latest book of cartographic histories published by Birlinn (though Birlinn’s website seems to be offline at the moment).… More
Belt has recently been publishing a number of “[Midwest City] in 50 Maps” titles, which this presumably impacts.
I received this mail from Arcadia Publishing, the company which now owns Belt Publishing, who originally published my book in 2022.
Belt's authors are not the sort of people who are gonna be cool with this. I feel really bad for whoever is answering the emails at Arcadia next week.
Belt's authors are not the sort of people who are gonna be cool with this. I feel really bad for whoever is answering the emails at Arcadia next week.
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Belt has recently been publishing a number of “[Midwest City] in 50 Maps” titles, which this presumably impacts.
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It's been a long journey (>1 year since I began), but there's finallt a public release of the oblique hachures method. With many thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, who significantly refined the methodology from what I began with.
Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's been a long journey (>1 year since I began), but there's finallt a public release of the oblique hachures method. With many thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, who significantly refined the methodology from what I began with.
Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Writeup (w/ a link to the script): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I didn’t put two and two together. Secret Maps, the British Library exhibition (previously), has an accompanying book, because British Library exhibitions invariably come with books. And that book was already listed on my Map… More
Secret Maps, the Book
I didn’t put two and two together. Secret Maps, the British Library exhibition (previously), has an accompanying book, because British Library exhibitions invariably come with books. And that book was already listed on my Map… More
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October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I didn’t put two and two together. Secret Maps, the British Library exhibition (previously), has an accompanying book, because British Library exhibitions invariably come with books. And that book was already listed on my Map… More
Viabundus is an online map of medieval Europe. Viabundus is a freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650). Originally conceived as the digitisation of Friedrich Bruns and Hugo… More
A Street Map of Early Modern Europe
Viabundus is an online map of medieval Europe. Viabundus is a freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650). Originally conceived as the digitisation of Friedrich Bruns and Hugo… More
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October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Viabundus is an online map of medieval Europe. Viabundus is a freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650). Originally conceived as the digitisation of Friedrich Bruns and Hugo… More
A new exhibition opened at the British Library this weekend: Secret Maps. Maps have always been more than just tools for navigation – in the hand of governments, groups and individuals, maps create and control… More
New British Library Exhibition: Secret Maps
A new exhibition opened at the British Library this weekend: Secret Maps. Maps have always been more than just tools for navigation – in the hand of governments, groups and individuals, maps create and control… More
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October 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A new exhibition opened at the British Library this weekend: Secret Maps. Maps have always been more than just tools for navigation – in the hand of governments, groups and individuals, maps create and control… More
An update on ads coming to Apple Maps. AppleInsider, citing a paywalled report from Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter: “[T]he decision has been taken to move ahead with the project. The claim is that starting… More
Ads Coming to Apple Maps: Report
An update on ads coming to Apple Maps. AppleInsider, citing a paywalled report from Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter: “[T]he decision has been taken to move ahead with the project. The claim is that starting… More
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October 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
An update on ads coming to Apple Maps. AppleInsider, citing a paywalled report from Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter: “[T]he decision has been taken to move ahead with the project. The claim is that starting… More
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Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
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Our next season for The Oxford Seminars in Cartography ... #TOSCA @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Register at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our next season for The Oxford Seminars in Cartography ... #TOSCA @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Register at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
Mike Duggan takes a look at the exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps currently running at the Architectural Association Gallery in London, which displays the maps as cyanotypes on fabric. In the gallery space,… More
More on the Exhibition of Le Guin’s Maps
Mike Duggan takes a look at the exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps currently running at the Architectural Association Gallery in London, which displays the maps as cyanotypes on fabric. In the gallery space,… More
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October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Mike Duggan takes a look at the exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps currently running at the Architectural Association Gallery in London, which displays the maps as cyanotypes on fabric. In the gallery space,… More
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I was reflecting this morning on why I love the cartographic community so much:
Map makers are often competent technology people but they have too much invested in art, the humanities and the sciences to ever be "techies."
Map makers are often competent technology people but they have too much invested in art, the humanities and the sciences to ever be "techies."
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was reflecting this morning on why I love the cartographic community so much:
Map makers are often competent technology people but they have too much invested in art, the humanities and the sciences to ever be "techies."
Map makers are often competent technology people but they have too much invested in art, the humanities and the sciences to ever be "techies."
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While we're at it, I should take every opportunity to mention that Boston in 50 Maps is also available for pre-order. I owe the editor some comments this week and the book won't exist for like 8 more months, but it is not too soon to start sending your money. beltpublishing.com/products/bos...
Boston in 50 Maps
By Andy Woodruff May 19, 2026 See Boston from a new perspective in these fifty-plus new, original maps. In this fun and informative book, you can trace Paul Revere’s ride as well as Viking Leif Erikso...
beltpublishing.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
While we're at it, I should take every opportunity to mention that Boston in 50 Maps is also available for pre-order. I owe the editor some comments this week and the book won't exist for like 8 more months, but it is not too soon to start sending your money. beltpublishing.com/products/bos...
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You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...
Cincinnati in 50 Maps - Andy Woodruff, cartographer
50+ original maps of Cincinnati in a book edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff
andywoodruff.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...