Matthew Edney’s Cartography: The Ideal and Its History was published by the University of Chicago Press last April. I have a review copy and a review is in the works. While you’re waiting for me… More
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Mapping Maine
Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842, an exhibition of maps celebrating Maine’s bicentennial while acknowledging the Wabanaki presence and history in the space that became Maine, opens today at the Osher Map Library… More
A County-by-County COVID-19 Map
COVD-19 is hitting the United States very hard right now. This interactive map from the Harvard Global Health Institute measures COVID-19 risk at the county level. The four colour-coded risk levels are based on a… More
The History of Cartography’s Fourth Volume, Now (Almost) Out
I believe that today is (nominally) the publication date of the fourth volume in the History of Cartography Project: The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment. As with other volumes of… More
Still More Coronavirus Maps
Kera Till’s “Commuting in Corona Times” is a transit map of the new normal. More at Untapped New York. On a personal level, the coronavirus map I stare at the most is the one closest… More
In Search of Lost Islands
Three books look at islands that never were.
Map Books of 2020
Here are the books that, to my knowledge, have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2020. To suggest a book for this list, please contact me. If you are a publisher, author… More
‘Cartograph’: History of a Back Formation
Inspired by its appearance in a recent science fiction novel, Matthew Edney explores the history of the odd word “cartograph”—a back formation of “cartography” whose existence suggests circumstances in which “map” is somehow insufficient. Edney traces… More
Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
Matthew H. Edney’s Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (University of Chicago Press, April) is a full-throated jeremiad against the concept of cartography itself—the ideal of cartography, which after 237 densely argued pages Edney says… More
History of Cartography Project Updates
The first three volumes of the History of Cartography Project will be published in Chinese next year, “completing a translation project that began in 2014,” the Project announced on Facebook last week. The Project was… More
Map Books of 2019
Here are the books that, to my knowledge, have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2019. To suggest a book for this list, please contact me. If you are a publisher, author or publicist of one… More
The Limits to Mapping
“The Limits to Mapping,” a talk Matthew Edney gave at Yale University last week as part of the Franke Program series of lectures, is now available on YouTube. Edney, who’s Osher Professor in the History… More
ISHMap Symposium in Portland, Maine
Registration is now open for the 2018 Symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map. It takes place from 21 to 23 June 2018 at the Osher Map Library in Portland, Maine,… More
What the Hell Is Going On with the International Society for the History of the Map?
A power struggle involving two factions of the International Society for the History of the Map has drawn the attention of, of all places, Deadspin’s The Concourse. The factions are, on the one hand, Dr. Zsolt G. Török,… More
The 74 on Boston Schools and the Peters Map
Education news website The 74 has its own coverage of the Boston schools/Peters map controversy (is it safe to call it a controversy?), with extensive quotes from Matthew Edney, who does not mince words. (Comparing both projections to Comic… More