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
