The Map Room

The Map Room was a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe. It ran from March 2003 to June 2011, and covered everything from antique map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology. The Map Room came to an end on June 30, 2011, but you can still browse more than 4,000 entries in the archives.

Jonathan still posts occasionally about maps on his personal blog; see below for the most recent entries. (The Map Room’s RSS feed now redirects to those posts.) The Map Room’s Twitter account and Facebook page are still active, and feature links to new map-related content.

Jonathan is also studying the use of maps in science fiction and fantasy. Visit the project page.


Recent Map Posts

Herbal Earth
Review: Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Map of All American Rivers
Apple Maps on the Mac
Review: Here Be Dragons
The Sixteenth-Century Origins of Fantasy Maps
Mapping Antarctica’s Bedrock
A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox
Review: The Art of the Map
New Google Maps: First Impressions
My Own Private Westeros
Here Be Sea Monsters
A Topographic Map of Titan
Google Maps Redesigned
OpenStreetMap’s New Map Editor
Fictional Worlds Map-Making Competition
The KickMap Comes to London
Mapping Manhattan
The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers
All Online Maps Suck
The Imaginarium Geographica
Fifty Equal States Redux
Lunar Gravity Map
Ankh-Morpork on the iPad
The Book of Thomas: Volume One: Heaven
Review: On the Map
Saladin Ahmed on Secondary World Fantasy
Laser-Cut Wood Bathymetric Charts
Laconic History of the World
The Onion on Apple Maps
Census Dotmap
The Measure of Manhattan
Google Maps for iPhone
Antony Swithin’s Rockall
Review: The Lands of Ice and Fire
Jeffrey Beebe’s Refractoria

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