The Map Room

Mapping Manchester: Cartographic Stories of the City opened last June and runs until January 17, 2010, at Manchester’s John Rylands Library. From the promotional leaflet (PDF):

Mapping Manchester showcases the wealth of cartographic treasures held by the University of Manchester and other institutions in the city, including generous loans of materials from the Manchester City Library and Archives and Chetham’s Library. … Over eighty different maps, plans, diagrams and photographs of the city — published over the last two hundred and fifty years — are on display. These range in date from the first large scale survey of the city published by William Green in 1794, to a 2008 statistical map of binge drinking hotspots across Manchester.

See also the catalogue (5.2 MB PDF); a higher-resolution version (30 MB PDF) is also available). A talk will also be given on December 10. Via Maps-L.

Previously: More on Soviet Maps of the UK.

Cold War era Soviet maps of the UK have gotten some mainstream media attention over the past month or so: the Guardian looks at a 1974 map showing invasion routes into Manchester, in the context of a local exhibition; the Southern Daily Echo’s focus is on Southampton, and on the work of Alex Kent of the University of Southampton’s Cartographic Unit, which has a page on the maps and offers reprints for sale. Via MapHist.

Previously: Soviet Spies Map the World; Soviet Mapping Update; Soviet Spy Maps for Sale.

Having mapped approximately 90 per cent of the roads on the Isle of Wight last weekend (see previous entry), the OpenStreetMap project now turns to Manchester for its next workshop this coming weekend. Via Boing Boing.

See previous entries: OpenStreetMap to Map Isle of Wight; OpenStreetMap London Poster as Fundraiser; OpenStreetMap; London Free Map.