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100 Years to Solve an Integral
The surprising history of the Mercator map and the integral of sec(x), a calculus staple that stumped mathematicians for…
1504 Da Vinci Globe
A zoomable flat projection of the 1504 ostrich egg globe linked to Leonardo da Vinci, one of the oldest globes showing t…
30DayMapChallenge
Home of the #30DayMapChallenge, where mapmakers make one themed map a day every November, with the daily themes, collect…
4K Rivers
A series of vivid river and delta images built from high-resolution elevation data, where ancient meanders and oxbows gl…
Adventures in Mapping
John Nelson's maps-and-stuff site showcasing inventive cartography and data-driven map design, with posts on the art and…
Afternoon Map
A cartography blog from the Ottoman History Podcast network on historical maps, mapping practices, and geography, showin…
An Official Atlas of North Korea
A look through an official North Korean atlas that shows the world from the viewpoint of one of the most isolated countr…
Anton Thomas Art
Anton Thomas' hand-drawn maps, including North America: Portrait of a Continent and Wild World, each drawn with colored…
Arcanum Maps
A historical map portal for browsing scanned maps of the Habsburg Empire and other European countries, from the 1760s mi…
Atlas of Places
A curated visual archive of architecture, cartography, photography, and painting, presented as a quiet educational atlas…
Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator
Generates whole fantasy worlds in the browser, with continents, rivers, states, cultures and religions you can restyle a…
Barely Maps
Peter Gorman's minimalist maps that reduce cities, rivers, roads and transit systems to a few clean lines, showing how l…
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps
A browsable gallery of centuries-old antique maps and atlases, each described with its historical and cartographic signi…
Beyond the Sea
Cartographer Andy Woodruff maps what you are actually facing when you stand on a beach and look straight out to sea, wit…
blueshirt
The personal playground of a New York Times graphics editor, with maps, animations, data visualizations, photography and…
Bomb Sight
An interactive map plotting every bomb dropped on London during the Blitz in 1940-41, drawn from official raid logs and…
Brilliant Maps
A site explaining the world through thought-provoking maps, covering geography, history, demographics, and cultural quir…
Cartographers' Guild
A forum and community for fantasy map makers and cartography enthusiasts, with tutorials, critiques, and galleries of ha…
Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps
An interactive digitization of Charles Booth's 1890s survey mapping London street by street by wealth and poverty, overl…
ColorBrewer
An interactive color picker for maps: choose how many classes your data has and whether it is sequential, diverging or q…
ColorBrewer
A classic interactive tool for choosing color schemes for maps and charts, showing how each palette looks across differe…
Crafting Plausible Maps
A worldbuilding guide to drawing believable fantasy maps, explaining how mountains, rivers, coastlines, climate and sett…
David Rumsey Map Collection
An online collection of more than 100,000 digitized historical maps, atlases, and globes spanning five centuries of cart…
DETROITography
A blog collecting and creating maps of Detroit, covering history, demographics, and neighborhoods, and inviting readers…
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