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. 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
- Three Books on WWII Maps
- History of Cartography Project’s Sixth Volume Now Out
- Mapcodes
- The Best Map of Pluto Ever (Until Some Time Later This Month)
- Robert Lazzaretti, Fantasy Mapmaker
- RIP Yahoo Maps
- Mapping the California Sea Floor
- Mapping An Ember in the Ashes
- Google Apologizes for Offensive Map Search Results
- Clichéa
- Google Map Maker Program Suspended
- Historical Highway Maps of Manitoba
- Google Maps Edits Cause Embarrassment
- Map of Canada Changes Depiction of Arctic Sea Ice
- New Moon Maps
- Space Maps: Ceres, Mars, Exoplanets
- Unruly Places (Off the Map)
- Emily Garfield’s Map Art
- Map Anniversaries
- Daniel Reeve, Film Cartographer
- Atlas of Canada
- The Patterson Projection
- Geologic Maps of Vesta
- Sorol
- Gift Guide: 10 Map Books of 2014
- Moon and Comet Maps
- Fantasy Maps of U.S. Cities
- Geologic Map of Mars
- Mapping It Out
- My Readercon 25 Schedule
- Finding Longitude
- OpenGeofiction
- Mapping Gotham
- Review: The Map Thief
- Four More Map Stories
- Game of Thrones Map Marker Set
