About The Map Room
The Map Room is a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe. It was published between March 2003 and 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. I also still post occasionally to The Map Room’s Twitter and Facebook pages.
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Recent Activity
I haven’t given up on maps: I make an occasional blog post about them on my personal blog: see the Maps category; the most recent entries are below. I’m also working on several map-related projects, including research into the use of maps in fantasy and science fiction.
- Map of a Nation
- • When Rachel Hewitt’s Map of a Nation was published in the U.K. in 2010, I despaired of ever being able to lay hands on a copy easily. A book documenting the first century or so of the history of… Read more →
- Apple to Abandon Google Maps in iOS 6?
- • There are rumours that for iOS 6, the next version of the operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, Apple will replace Google Maps with an in-house mapping application with an impressive 3D mode; the app will apparently… Read more →
- Does a Map Reveal Roanoke’s Fate?
- • A patch on a 16th-century map may suggest what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. The map in question is the 1585 Virginea Pars map by John White. Based on the patch, which hides a symbol indicating a fort,… Read more →
- U.S. Life Expectancy by County
- • County-by-county life expectancy estimates released last month by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reveal a startling gap between the longest-lived and shortest-lived areas of the country: the difference can be as much as 15 years. The range… Read more →
- New Moon Globe Released
- • Calling it “the first entirely new globe of the lunar surface in more than 40 years,” Sky and Telescope has announced a new Moon globe based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery. Replogle’s Moon globe has been the standard for… Read more →
- El Viaje de Argos
- • Alejandro Polanco Masa, whose map blog La Cartoteca is one of the finest on the subject in any language, has announced the availability of his speculative fiction novel El Viaje de Argos, in which maps play a prominent role…. Read more →
Books Reviewed on The Map Room
- OpenStreetMap (Ramm, Topf and Chilton)
(Reviewed on ) - Infinite City
(Reviewed on ) - Maps in Comics: In Maps & Legends
(Reviewed on ) - National Geographic Atlas of the World, Ninth Edition
(Reviewed on ) - From Here to There
(Reviewed on ) - The Power of Place
(Reviewed on ) - The Fourth Part of the World
(Reviewed on ) - Paris Underground
(Reviewed on ) - Map Addict
(Reviewed on ) - Two Inexpensive Star Atlases
(Reviewed on ) - Cartography Design Annual #1
(Reviewed on ) - Rhumb Lines and Map Wars
(Reviewed on ) - Lost States
(Reviewed on ) - Transit Maps of the World
(Reviewed on ) - Canada Back Road Atlas
(Reviewed on ) - Longitude
(Reviewed on ) - Our Dumb World
(Reviewed on ) - The Geist Atlas of Canada
(Reviewed on ) - From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
(Reviewed on ) - Seeing Through Maps
(Reviewed on ) - How to Lie with Maps
(Reviewed on ) - Walking with Your Ancestors by Melinda Kashuba
(Reviewed on ) - Making Maps by Krygier and Wood
(Reviewed on ) - GPS Mapping by Rich Owings
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