Tagged “cartography”
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Project Linework
A free library of handcrafted vector map linework, each set drawn in its own aesthetic style, from wobbly hand-drawn coa…
Radical Cartography
Historian Bill Rankin's collection of original maps that rethink data and space, from city racial and income dot maps to…
Relief
Pan and zoom an elevation map of the whole world whose colors adjust to the terrain on screen, revealing hidden ridges,…
Roman Roads
A subway-style transit diagram of the major roads of the Roman Empire, drawn by Alexandr Trubetskoy, with wonderful cart…
Scale-A-Tron
A mapping toy from Stamen where you draw a shape on one map and the satellite imagery inside it is copied and scaled ont…
Scott Reinhard Mapping and Visualization
A gallery of Scott Reinhard's elevation maps and data visualizations, with hand-tuned shaded-relief renderings of mounta…
Scribble Maps
A browser map maker for drawing shapes, lines, and markers on a map, then sharing it, embedding it on a website, or expo…
Sensory Maps
Artist Kate McLean's portfolio of smellmaps, hand-drawn and digital maps that chart the scents of cities like Amsterdam,…
Should This Be a Map or 500 Maps?
A thoughtful essay on cartography about a map that never came to be, 500 priests, and why some places resist being flatt…
SOCKS
An eclectic blog collecting visual research on architecture, cartography, and utopian urban planning, mixing historical…
Stamen Design
The portfolio of a pioneering cartography and data visualization studio, known for stylized interactive maps used across…
Stamen Maps
Browse the whole world in Stamen's famous map styles, including a watercolor map that looks hand-painted and a soft terr…
Strange Maps
Frank Jacobs' long-running Strange Maps column, dissecting cartographic curiosities from fictional borders to bizarre ge…
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Strange Maps
A long-running blog collecting unusual, historical, and thought-provoking maps, many of them focused on cities, borders,…
Submarine Cable Map 2021
TeleGeography's illustrated 2021 map of the undersea cables that carry the internet, zoomable in detail, with vintage-st…
Tabula Peutingeriana
Explore the Tabula Peutingeriana, a long scroll map of the Roman road network stretching from Britain to India, with an…
Terraink
A free map poster generator that turns any city or location into print-ready wall art, exportable as PNG, PDF, or SVG wi…
The Counter-Cartographer Who Mapped Hope
An essay recovering the story of Louise E. Jefferson, a pioneering Black American mapmaker whose illustrated maps of Afr…
The Inverted World Map
A Blue Marble style map of Earth with land and water swapped, so oceans become continents and familiar coastlines turn i…
The Map Kiwi
A cartography blog by a geographic information science graduate, with maps, digital mapping projects, and notes on geogr…
The Map Room
A blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe, running since 2003, covering everything from antique map collecting to modern carto…
The Problem with Maps
An illustrated interactive essay on why flat maps distort the round Earth, letting you explore different map projections…
Throwing Shade at the Cartographer Illuminati
A walkthrough of raytracing topographic maps in R to cast realistic shadows, showing how a few lines of code make terrai…
Topi Tjukanov
The portfolio of map maker Topi Tjukanov, with experimental data visualisations built from points, lines and polygons, l…
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