Blogs
- Big Map Blog
- Big Map Blog is, well, a new map blog. The curator explains the premise behind it: “there’s always been two things I wanted from a map blog, and rarely got: A.) enormous maps, and B.) access to the full-resolution file….
- Strange Maps Blogger in the Financial Times
- The Financial Times profiles Frank Jacobs, the author of the Strange Maps blog. And to think that for his first few years of blogging, he did so anonymously. Buy Strange Maps at Amazon.com (Canada, UK)…
- Atlas der Neederlanden
- Atlas der Neederlanden is a Dutch-language blog that explores the restoration of a nine-volume composite atlas — a bound collection of maps from different periods and by divers hands — by the Special Collections department of the University of Amsterdam’s…
- New Blog: Mapping London
- Mapping London is a new blog by James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien, whose work we’ve seen before. Here’s how James announced it on his own blog: “Oliver O’Brien and I have decided to team up to launch the mappinglondon.co.uk blog…
- Maps and the City
- Marleen’s Maps and the City: a new map blog that might be worth keeping an eye on….
- The Daily Chart and World Alcohol Consumption
- The map of global obesity (see previous entry) came to us from The Economist’s Daily Chart blog, which “publish[es] a new chart or map every working day.” Yesterday’s entry was a map of world alcohol consumption based on WHO data….
- Tim Wallace’s Bogus Art Maps
- Tim Wallace’s bogus art maps — maps of the contiguous 48 U.S. states in the style of various artists. Don’t miss the rest of his blog, either. Via @awoodruff….
- Daniel Huffman and His River Maps
- Daniel Huffman, author of the Cartastrophe blog about bad map design and — more recently — the map of profanity on Twitter, not only has a new blog called somethingaboutmaps, but his most recent mapping project is a series…
- British Cartographic Society Blog
- The British Cartographic Society has a new blog. Via @worldmapper….
- Map of the Week Blog
- The Toronto Star’s Map of the Week blog went dark last July, but another Map of the Week blog has been trucking along since 2005 2007 . Via @awoodruff….
- Blogs and a Book About Maps of the Solar System’s Moons
- Oh look: two blogs about mapping other bodies in the solar system by planetary scientist Paul Schenk: Dr. Schenk’s 3D House of Satellites, about stereo, perspective and topographic maps of moons and dwarf planets (thanks to recent Cassini data,…
- AndroGeoid on Bing Maps for Android
- AndroGeoid takes a look at the new official Bing Maps app for Android. AndroGeoid is a new blog about mapping, location, GIS, GPS, geography and so forth on the Android platform; it’s by Leszek Pawlowicz, whom you may remember from…
- Two More Blogs
- Old-Map-Blog posts scans from the author’s collection of antique maps; so far they seem mainly to be from German-language atlas plates. GPSFix focuses on Garmin’s outdoor GPS receivers….
- The Ordnance Survey’s Official Blog
- I think I’ve been aware of the Ordnance Survey’s official blog for some time, but it doesn’t look like I’ve actually mentioned it here. Not sure how that happened….
- More Map Tumblelogs
- More map tumblelogs: cartophile and fuckyesmaps (previously)….
- F-Bomb
- If you’re familiar with the phenomenon of the so-called “fuck-yeah” tumblelog (see also Slate), you will not be surprised to know of the existence of Fuck Yeah Cartography (via)….
- Three More Blogs
- Thierry Gregorius’s Georeferenced and Teresa Baldwin’s map-maker.ca have just gotten started; it’ll be interesting to see where these two new blogs go from here. The unofficial Bing Maps Watch has been around for a few months….
- Magnificent Maps Blog
- We’re one week away from the opening of Magnificent Maps at the British Library; in the meantime, there’s an accompanying curators’ blog, which started up earlier this month. Via Mapperz….
- Comic Book Cartography
- Comic Book Cartography collects maps and diagrams from comic books — more the latter (e.g., cutaways of superheroes’ headquarters) than the former so far. Via Boing Boing, among others. At right: Jack Kirby’s World of Kamandi. Previously: The Marvel…
- A Blog About Maps in Fiction
- (e)space & fiction is a blog about the use of maps “and other spatial machineries” in works of fiction, from novels to movies to comic books. Bilingual, in French and English. Thanks to Paul for the link….
- Two More Blogs
- Geocurrents, a blog “based on the proposition that geographical knowledge can greatly enhance our understanding of current events” (submitted by Samuel Franco). GIS in Education and Curriculum Integration (via Jesse)….
- Mark Ovenden’s New Blog
- Mark Ovenden, author of Transit Maps of the World (reviewed here) and Paris Underground (reviewed here), has a new blog….
- David Rumsey Website Updated, Blog Added
- The website of the David Rumsey Map Collection has been given its first redesign in its 10-year history. That redesign, by the way, includes a new blog. Via Maps-L; thanks also to peacay for the tip….
- Two More Blogs
- Two more map blogs have come to my attention recently: the new ArcGIS Data Blog and El mundo de los mapas, a Spanish-language blog that has been around somewhat longer….
- World Freedom Atlas
- The World Freedom Atlas is a project by cartographer Zachary Forest Johnson (who also has a blog). The Atlas combines a number of datasets from non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations that attempt to measure human rights, freedom, democracy and all…
- Cartastrophe, a Blog About Bad Maps
- Cartastrophe is a blog by Daniel Huffman that critiques bad maps: There are a lot of bad maps out there. They lurk in brochures, on company websites, and in magazines. They confuse, they miscommunicate, and they make it hard to…
- Ohio Is a Piano
- I don’t think I’ve encountered Andy Woodruff’s Cartogrammar blog before, but his latest entry, about his latest project, is a beaut: “Last month, as I was driving through Ohio,” he writes, “it dawned on me: There are 88 counties…
- Ball State’s GIS Research and Map Collection
- Ball State University’s GIS Research and Map Collection has a blog, which has already been running for three years….
- GIS Web Maps to Critique Web Mapping Applications
- It looks like GIS Web Maps will be a blog that critiques GIS web mapping: “I usually don’t have that much to say. But I know good when I see it. I know bad when I see it. I usually…
- Maps of Imaginary Places: A Roundup
- Kidlandia is an interactive map builder that allows you to create custom fantasy maps for children; you choose from one of four maps (which seems rather limited to me), which you customize with your own place names. Prices for…
- Geographicus
- Kevin Brown of Geographicus writes, “I am a generalist antique map dealer specializing in rare maps from the 15th through the 19th centuries. As a sideline I have also started a map blog on cartographic anomalies, current map-related events, and…
- Another Blog Roundup
- Changes afoot in the map blogging world: Using Google Earth is being folded into Google LatLong. After four years at Flickr, doing (and posting about) a lot of Flickr’s map- and geotagging-related stuff, Rev Dan Catt is moving on. Briefly…
- The Bartholomew Archive
- The Bartholomew Archive at the National Library of Scotland contains the business records, publications, working maps and printing plates of John Bartholomew & Son Ltd., the Edinburgh mapmaking firm. The Archive is still a work in progress: the Library is…
- Unfinishtstan
- David Mumford writes to point to Roger Pountain’s curious story of a map his son created on the unfinished wall of their kitchen: I had found my oldest son Alistair (25) up a ladder with a felt-tip marker and…
- Those Google Earth Bloggers, They Get Around
- Google Earth bloggers are on the move: Stefan Geens (Ogle Earth), lately a resident of Cairo, is relocating to Shanghai; Frank Taylor (Google Earth Blog) is preparing for a five-year trip around the world by sailboat with his wife. Stefan…
- Google Maps API E-Book, GeoChalkboard Blog
- Eric Pimpler of the GeoChalkboard blog (which I was not aware of prior to this) has posted the the fifth revision of Mashup Mania with Google Maps, a free 52-page e-book on the Google Maps API; direct link to the…
- The Map Scroll
- More competition (always welcome) in the form of The Map Scroll, a new blog about maps that started in January that has, as its goal, “one new bitchin map every goddamn day.” I look forward to us stealing each other’s…
- Geotagging Comes to Blogger
- Photos aren’t the only things that can be geotagged; blog entries can, too. (So can just about any discrete piece of information, for that matter; don’t be so un-2.0.) Anyway, Blogger has added geotagging to its “Blogger in Draft” interface…
- Map Blog Update
- Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search is self-explanatory. Renalid is dead; Renaud Euvrard is now collaborating with Audrey Malherbe at their new blog, GeoInWeb (en français, bien sûr). GIS Pathway is a site — it has an RSS…
- Top Mapping Blogs
- It seems as though every other map blogger has offered their opinion on Sean’s list of top 25 37 blogs in GIS and cartography, so here is my two cents’ worth: Instruments like Alexa and Technorati are blunt, and measure…
- Maps That Matter
- Maps That Matter, a blog by the University of Manchester’s Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins, looks at influential maps and diagrams: classics of design, significant milestones in terms of cartography or information, that sort of thing. Via Catholicgauze….
- Map Hawk
- Map Hawk, a side project by Directions Media’s Joe Francica, is a blog that “will cover the use of maps, mapping technology and location-based information in the media”; topics so far include the U.S. elections, the recent Russia-Georgia crisis, and…
- Razón Cartografica
- Razón Cartografica’s aim is to promote the history of geography and cartography in Colombia and Latin America. The first issue of its bulletin is here; there’s also a blog. In Spanish, of course, so I can’t say much more about…
- Fantasy Cartography
- Fantasy Cartography is a blog that reprints scans of maps from science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as role-playing and computer games. The archives are quite extensive. Via La Cartoteca….
- Two Blogs
- The Toronto Star has a map blog, the main content of which is a map of the week feature and which anchors the Star’s online mapping efforts. Thanks to Richard for the link. Chris Watson wrote to tell us…
- Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
- Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the…
- Three Blogs
- Google Earth Design has been around for more than a year, but I’ve apparently missed it until now; the subject of good map design within Google Earth seems a laudable one. Ryan Strynatka writes about his blog, The Fiducial…
- Link Roundup: Early July Edition
- Off camping for a few days; here are a few links to tide you over: Roger Hart’s very good blog, GeoCarta, has moved to a new address and a new platform. The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center’s map collection is…
- Blog Milestones
- MetaCarta has a blog. “As you can tell by its name, this is a corporate sponsored blog. That said, the goal of the blog is to open up discussion on a wide-range of geography-related issues — not to be…
- More Google News: Banned in Minnesota; New Developer Blog
- Two more recent Google-related items: North Oaks, a rather xenophobic town in Minnesota — the streets are privately owned — has asked Google to remove it from Street View; Google has complied with the town’s request. Google’s gotten into trouble…
- About That All Points Blog/Daily Kos Thing
- Apologies in advance for the inside baseball, but in light of the fracas that has developed over All Points Blog’s link to a map-related story on Daily Kos, a partisan Democratic blog, let me say the following: I saw the…
- Contour Lines and Other Stories: A Google Roundup
- Contour lines have been added to Google Maps’s terrain map layer, which adds its their usefulness (especially, for example, in a mountain context). But it has some way to go before it’s a suitable replacement for a topo map;…
- Two More Blogs and a Directory Update
- Two new mapping-related blogs, both kind of technical: Spatial Ed by Ed Katibah, the spatial project manager for Microsoft’s SQL Server (via James). The Thematic Mapping Blog, the stated purpose of which is “to elaborate ideas of how geobrowsers and…
- MapQuest Platform: Free Edition
- MapQuest has relaunched its mapping APIs, calling them the MapQuest Platform: Free Edition. I’m not exactly sure how this works: MapQuest has had a free API along with commercial partnerships; I don’t know if this is meant to replace both,…
- Blogging the Festival of Maps
- Hugh Yeman writes, “I recently caught the cartography bug, and I’ve spent the last several weeks writing almost exclusively about two visits to the Chicago Festival of Maps. As I’ve researched the exhibit items I’ve been quite surprised to find…
- Daily Maps
- National Geographic’s Map of the Day site provides (in a vein similar to that of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, which it is strongly reminiscent of) a map along with a brief description every weekday (more or less). Maps…
- Blogs into Books
- First came the BibliOdyssey book, a dead-tree compilation based on our friend PK’s excellent blog about archival images (some of which are maps, so I have no qualms about mentioning either blog or book; here’s the Amazon link for the…
- You Are Here, Hon
- You Are Here, Hon is a new map blog by someone going by the name of Her Majesty of Maps. With names like that, this could turn out to be interesting….
- Festival of Maps Reviews
- Brendan Crain writes, “I have seen a few posts on The Map Room about the Festival of Maps here in Chicago. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been attending and reviewing the shows around town. Here’s a…
- TOPO! Hacker
- TOPO! Hacker is a relatively new, unofficial blog about messing around with National Geographic’s TOPO! software. Via GPS Tracklog….
- Two More Blogs
- Mad props to two new blogs: Jamie’s Cartophilia, a blog from an enthusiast’s, rather than a professional’s perspective (which sounds oddly familiar); and Richard’s Tech Reviews, a spin-off of his Science Library Pad, which despite its name had quite a…
- Maps and More
- Joost Depuydt’s new blog, Maps and More, seems to be taking a turn towards maps in advertising and graphic design so far….
- Festival of Maps Now Open
- Chicago’s Festival of Maps officially opened on Friday; in addition to its new website, which went live in September, there is also a Festival of Maps blog to help us keep track of the proceedings. And there’s a lot to…
- The Electoral Map
- Speaking of election maps, The Electoral Map is a relatively new blog that’s all about them (at least within an American context). What I find interesting is that the maps featured on this blog are definitely about elections and politics,…
- Blog URL Changes
- Stefan reports that Google Karten has moved to gkarten.blogspot.com. The ESRI Support Center blog has moved to blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/supportcenter….
- Contours: National Geographic Map Blog
- National Geographic Maps has started a blog called Contours, which is being hosted on BlogSpot until their main site is relaunched in January, according to an NG Maps representative….
- New York Public Library Map Blog
- The New York Public Library’s skunkworks is currently experimenting with a number of blogs, one of which — quite naturally, given the existence of the NYPL’s map division — deals with maps: Maps @ NYPL is still at an early…
- More on the Robinson Projection
- On his relatively new Terra ETL Blog, which I had not noticed before, Dean C. Mikkelsen has a nice post explaining the Robinson projection, the compromise projection created for aesthetic purposes by the late Arthur Robinson. (You may recall that…
- MapQuest Beta and Blog
- MapQuest — still the ostensible market leader in online mapping, apparently — has taken some steps to catch up with its upstart rivals. Its new blog — yes, MapQuest now has a blog — begins with a post announcing…
- CartoBlog
- Krygier and Wood are also involved, as two of several authors, in another cartography blog, CartoBlog, which seems to flow from the CartoTalk forum. The most recent entry, Allelopathic Maps and Google’s “My Maps”, is a good one: it argues…
- Slashgeo Pining for the Fjords
- The reports of Slashgeo’s death may have been greatly exaggerated….
- A Map Blog Update: GeoWeb, Cartographismes and More
- The GeoWeb 2007 conference, which takes place later this month and deals with “the convergence of Web technologies, XML, Web services, and GIS,” has a conference blog. The blog associated with Krygier and Wood’s excellent book, Making Maps (reviewed here),…
- Slashgeo Closes Down
- Unfortunately, Slashgeo is closing down, for an all too common reason: too much work to do in Alex’s spare time. Too few people who shared his enthusiasm for the project. And, though he doesn’t say it explicitly, for too little…
- Map Blog Update
- Leszek reports that his Free GeoTools blog is moving to a new URL — freegeographytools.com — and a new name: Free Geography Tools. Via Catholicgauze, the Infonaut Blog, from a company that does map-based medical IT stuff. Given all that…
- Three More Blogs
- Update your RSS readers — here are three more blogs for you: Le blogue du LFG by Henri Willox; in French; an interest in Google mapping stuff. Digital Earth Blog by Mickey Mellen; foci include Google Earth and Maps, Virtual…
- GeoPress for Movable Type
- Still with Where 2.0. GeoPressMT, a Movable Type version of the GeoPress plugin, previously WordPress only (see previous entry), was also announced today. It enables embedding geographic information in posts (especially their RSS feeds) and adding maps….
- Google Finally Gets a Map Blog
- Yahoo and Microsoft have had mapping blogs for a while, but not Google — at least not until today, when the Google Lat Long Blog, which covers Maps, Earth, Local and the mapping API, made its debut. Now where’s the…
- RenaLId
- RenaLId, which I referred to earlier today, is a French blog by Renaud Euvrard; it’s been focusing mainly on online maps, with an understandable amount of recent coverage of the French presidential elections. (I can’t explain the caps in the…
- GeoThought by Peter Batty
- Former Intergraph CTO Peter Batty now has a blog: GeoThought. Via All Points Blog and Anything Geospatial….
- Matt Fox’s Google Earth Library
- Matt Fox, whose work we’ve seen before, has started a new blog about Google Earth content — Google Earth Library — which already has a ferocious amount of material posted. Via Google Earth Blog….
- Planet Geospatial, Planet OSGeo
- James reports that he’s pushed out an improved version of Planet Geospatial, the geospatial blog aggregator, that should be a bit less wonky in its operation. Meanwhile, Christopher Schmidt decided that Planet Geospatial wasn’t for him, not only because of…
- Three More Blogs; Directory Update
- First, three more map/geospatial blogs for you: Free GeoTools by Leszek Pawlowicz, which started in January; points to (mostly Windows) software tools and data sources; covers quite a bit of ground, actually. Hablandodesigs by Juan Manuel Uribe Medina, a Mexican…
- A Tip of the Hat to Strange Maps
- Strange Maps launched last September and first came to my attention in October. Since then it’s generated all kinds of buzz in the blogging world, establishing itself as a map blog with serious crossover appeal. I’ve been delighted to see…
- Cartographic Perspectives Blog
- Cartographic Perspectives, the peer-reviewed journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society, now (as of yesterday) has a blog. Writes John Krygier in the blog’s first (and so far only) entry: “I plan to post abstracts and summaries of…
- Two Geospatial Industry Blogs
- Two new blogs from the geospatial industry: ESRI Support Center News (via James, who notes that it “seems to be in a holding pattern”); and MapInfo’s Location Intelligence Blog (via All Points Blog)….
- MapHead
- Nat Case writes, “I’ve recently started a blog on the ontology of maps (and other stuff that comes to mind). I’m a cartographer, head of production for Hedberg Maps and this blog is an outgrowth of 15+ years of talking…
- Two Blogs I Missed
- Two more blogs to tell you about, though they’ve been around long enough that I should have spotted them sooner. I linked to a page on High Earth Orbit’s site before, but since then Andrew Turner has added a blog…
- Two More Blogs
- Stefan has discovered two brand-spanking-new blogs that have started up this very month: the Google Earth Hacks blog accompanies the site of the same name; MapWrapper.com is a GIS blog with an interest in earth sciences and remote sensing. Previously:…
- Two Reactivated Map Blogs
- I’m pleased to see the return of two blogs I’d given up for dead: Roger Hart’s GeoCarta and Antal Guszlev’s Térképes Egoblog (in Hungarian). Back in the directory with you both….
- Best of Geospatial 2006
- Sean Gillies has compiled a list of the best of the geospatial community and blogosphere for 2006. I can’t really add to it (though I’m listed) because I’m not really a member of that community, just an imperfect observer. If…
- University of Chicago Press Blog
- The University of Chicago Press has a blog that talks up their books; of interest to us is the Cartography and Geography category, where you can find links to reviews and discussions of such books as Mark Monmonier’s From Squaw…
- Tanto: Italian Map Blog
- Andrea Borruso writes to tell us about his blog about cartography, GIS and other subjects; since it’s in Italian, I can’t say much about it, but I can at the very least point it out to you….
- A Reader’s Guide to Geoblogs
- Directions tries to makes sense of the rather large geospatial and mapping blogosphere with A Reader’s Guide to Geoblogs. It says something about your perspective, though, if maps, “paper and otherwise,” are considered a special interest while ESRI and Autodesk…
- A Blog for ‘London: A Life in Maps’
- There are hardly any posts up yet, but the London: A Life in Maps exhibition now has an accompanying blog. Via MapHist. Previously: London: A Life in Maps — Now Open and Online; Peter Barber on “London: A Life in…
- Charpentier’s GeoData Blog
- GeoData Blog is a French-language blog about geospatial data by Christophe Charpentier (who’s spent more than six years working on Cartosphère). Up and running since March, but really taking off in the last two months. Via Catholicgauze….
- Garmin Store Opening in Chicago
- Engadget covers this weekend’s opening of Garmin’s flagship retail store in Chicago, with plenty of photos to stimulate those who would find an upscale store dedicated to GPS products stimulating. Also points to Garmin’s corporate blog, which I don’t think…
- MapKit
- Platial has introduced MapKit, which integrates their service, built atop the Google Maps API, into your web page or blog (though there seem to be issues with certain blogging engines, including WordPress and Blogger). It looks profoundly easy to…
- Cartography’s Last Post
- A year ago, if you had asked me which mapping blogs were my favourites (and my greatest competition), I would have said, with little hesitation, Cartography, the Canadian Cartographic Association blog run by Paul Heersink, and GeoCarta, by surveyor Roger…
- Strange Maps
- Strange Maps is a relatively new blog about maps with a taste for the hypothetical, the fictional and the unusual. Via Cartography….
- Google Blogs Google Earth
- Google itself is getting into the Google Earth blogging action, but Using Google Earth is a bit more basic, more introductory in its coverage than Stefan and Frank are. It’s written by Google Earth team member John Gardiner. Via Ogle…
- Warping Waldseemüller
- John Hessler’s Warping Waldseemüller is a new blog about applying mathematical methods to old maps as a way of testing their accuracy. Sounds like it’s working the same vein as the new scholarly journal e_Perimetron (see previous entry). Via MapHist….
- Free GIS Data GeoBlog
- Free GIS Data GeoBlog points to GIS data available for free online; it’s another project by Glenn Letham, whom we’ve heard of before: he’s also behind Anything Geospatial and GISUser.com, among other things. Via Cartography and GPS Tracklog….
- GeoPress, a WordPress Plugin
- GeoPress “is a WordPress plugin that allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts.” Via O’Reilly Radar, which covers it in some detail. See previous entry: Google Maps WordPress Plugins….
- OpenStreetMap Animations
- Brady Forrest, covering FOSS4G2006 for O’Reilly Radar, links to some fascinating animations from the OpenStreetMap project. This one tracks two days’ worth of courier activity in London: There are also videos that track the growth in GPS traces for OpenStreetMap…
- Cartography Blog Seeks Bloggers
- An upcoming employment change is forcing Paul to scale back from blogging at Cartography, the Canadian Cartographic Association’s blog, so he’s looking for one or more people to share in the blogging duties. Bloggers should be CCA members — this…
- Google Karten
- Google Karten is a German-language blog about Google Maps and its ecosystem. Via Kartentisch….
- Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
- Books about Google’s mapping services continue to appear. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax is a new book about producing web applications using the Google Maps API and your data, whether your data is small and simple…
- Islamic Cartography Blog
- Tarek Kahlaoui, who is working on a Ph.D. dissertation on Islamic cartography in the 13th to 16th centuries at the University of Pennsylvania, has just started a blog on the subject that will include, over time, a bibliography of the…
- Map the Universe
- Blogs about antique maps, rather than the geospatial industry, are few and far between, but a new blog about antique maps and map collecting, plus the usual gamut of general subjects, started last month, with an eerily similar premise: Map…
- QGIS
- QGIS, an open-source, multiplatform GIS application, has a blog by its developers. Via James Fee, who’s been covering QGIS for a while….
- Google Earth: Flickr Browsing Tools; Enterprise Blog
- If you have a Flickr account and are interested in geotagging, don’t miss Frank’s roundup on Google Earth Blog: Three Flickr Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth — the point of which is to allow you to browse geotagged Flickr…
- More Map Blogs; StumbleUpon
- If you’re sick of hearing about Google Earth and would like to hear more about NASA World Wind, have I got a blog for you: The Earth Is Square. It’s not dedicated to World Wind per se, but it’s frequently…
- Blog Roundup
- Glenn is moving Anything Geospatial back to BlogSpot (see previous entry); if you’re accessing it via anygeo.com (see previous entry) the changeover will be automatic, though you may want to update any RSS subscriptions. Recent first-year blog anniversaries for, and…
- New(ish) Mapping Blogs
- Map GIS News Blog for UK, Europe and World Maps is a relatively new general-interest mapping blog with an emphasis on British topics and a really unwieldy name. GIS Dirtbag is probably the closest thing the mapping blogosphere has to…
- Ogle Earth Turns One
- Another mapping blog celebrates its first anniversary: this time it’s Ogle Earth. Congratulations, Stefan. (812 posts in one year? Yow.)…
- MTMaps
- The MTGoogleMaps Movable Type plugin (now at version 4.0) has some competition, kind of: MTMaps, now at version 0.6, which also uses Google Maps. Developer Patrick Calahan writes, “MTMaps is different from other map plugins in that it associates map…
- Yahoo! Local and Maps Blog
- The folks behind Yahoo! Local and Maps now have a blog. In their most recent post, they announce they’re lifting restrictions on commercial uses of the mapping API….
- ESRI Blog: Geography Matters
- Via James and Glenn, I discover ESRI’s new public (and possibly collaborative) blog about the GIS industry, Geography Matters. Still in its early stages; ought to be interesting to see how it develops….
- Non-Mapping Blogs That Nevertheless Have Map Content from Time to Time
- A big change from a year ago is that there are an awful lot of blogs about cartography, mapping and the geospatial industry: I list a bunch of them in the directory (which needs another update, I think), and there…
- Cartography Turns One
- Blog anniversaries are breaking out all over; I guess a lot of mapping blogs had their start in 2005, and those that have stuck it out for long enough are now able to mark their first-year milestones. Cartography turned one…
- Google Maps Mania Turns One
- Congratulations to Google Maps Mania on its first anniversary. I’ve given up trying to keep track of all the hacks and mashups — my present policy is to blog about them generally, and include any mashups when talking about a…
- Mapping Blog Address Changes
- A couple of address changes to tell you about. Glen reports that his new Anything Geospatial blog (previous entry) can be reached from the easier-to-remember URL of anygeo.com. On a similar note, James has moved Planet Geospatial, his geospatial blog…
- Triangulations: March 27
- Jeff Thurston’s contribution to the debate over free geodata looks at the question of scale: if you want geospatial data to be free and updated regularly, consider the huge amount of territory that has to be mapped. Wired’s piece,…
- Triangulations: March 20
- An article about GPS and geocaching in South Africa points out the extreme markup for GPS devices in that country: they cost twice as much as they do in the U.S.. The proposed INSPIRE directive, which would ostensibly standardize…
- Triangulations: March 13
- The Batch Geocoding Blog has a comparison of the Google, MapQuest and Yahoo! mapping APIs; it’s a quick outline of what the author sees as the pros and cons of each. Via Very Spatial. Alex Stengel says MapMemo 2.5…
- Link Roundup for February 7
- Significant Blogspot outages rendered several favourite mapping blogs unavailable for portions of last weekend, including Cartography and GeoCarta. The city of North Platte, Nebraska, its police department, and surrounding Lincoln County all use different GIS and CAD software to generate…
- Link Roundup for January 14
- Ben Keene, the editor of Oxford University Press’s atlas program (see previous entry), looks at the changes in geography he had to deal with in 2005 (via World Hum). MapQuest has inadvertently left Edmonton off a map of Canadian cities…
- Kartentisch
- Claus Moser has begun a German-language map blog: Kartentisch: Die Welt ist ein Atlas. This looks promising and I will keep an eye on it, my badly atrophied and rudimentary German notwithstanding….
- Link Roundup for January 12
- As an experiment, a lot of new links at once: A new Google Earth blog with a rather unwieldy title: Using Google Earth for Earth Science and Remote Sensing (via Ogle Earth). The Prejudice Map is built by querying Google…
- 2006 Bloggies: I Have No Shame
- Nominations for the 2006 Bloggies — the sixth annual weblog awards — are now open, and close on the 10th. Since I have neither shame nor subtlely, may I do what every other attention-whoring blogger does at this time of…
- La Cartoteca
- La Cartoteca is a Spanish-language blog about maps and geography by Alejandro Polanco Masa. I’m always interested in hearing about mapping blogs in languages other than English, even if I can’t understand them myself (I read and speak French, and…
- A Roundup: Society, Journal, Blog, Podcast
- A few quick links for the Map Site Directory: Via MapHist, I’ve learned about the British Cartographic Society and its journal, The Cartographic Journal. ArcDeveloper is a new blog that should be of interest to ESRI GIS developers. Via Spatially…
- Google Maps WordPress Plugins
- The WordPress Geo plugin allows bloggers using WordPress to specify a default location for their blog and assign geographic coordinates to specific posts. Dylan Kuhn takes this one step further with his Geo Mashup plugin, which takes that geographic data…
- Google Maps: API Blog, Wayfaring
- Google has launched a Google Maps API blog to keep developers better informed about changes to the API, plus, they say (because there’s only one post so far), tips and so forth. Via Google Maps Mania. But if the API…
- USGS Insiders’ Blog
- Topo Employees is an insiders’ blog by and for employees of the USGS national mapping program; presumably recent controversies about outsourcing maps and relocating their headquarters are fuelling a certain amount of disgruntlement above and beyound what is normal for…
- Google Maps Plugin for Movable Type
- If you’re a blogger using Movable Type — which reminds me that I need to upgrade to version 3.2 at some point — you might be interested in the MTGoogleMaps plugin. It requires a Google Maps API key, naturally, but…
- A Few More Blogs
- A few more mapping-related blogs to tell you about, with still more to come. Most mapping blogs approach it from the GIS pro’s perspective; First Printing’s perspective is also professional — but it’s from a company dealing in antique maps…
- Planet Geospatial
- Planet Geospatial, by Spatially Adjusted’s James Fee, aggregates GIS, mapping and related blogs (including this one) into a single page. It’s a fine idea, and I’m happy to be along for the ride. (Believe it or not, I thought about…
- Seven More Mapping Blogs
- More mapping, cartography and geospatial blogs to go up on the sidebar: Darren Cope’s Blog — Darren’s a recent geography grad from the University of Waterloo. (Oddly enough, Mike from Google Maps Mania is from Waterloo, and I did my…
- Ten More Mapping Blogs
- I posted links to a lot of new blogs next month, but Cartography’s roundup of cartography and related blogs last week brought a grand total of seven more blogs to my attention. Plus, I was already aware of Ed Parsons’s…
- Spatially Adjusted
- Another blog to tell you about, and I can’t believe I missed reporting this one earlier: Spatially Adjusted, a GIS blog by James Fee, with a lot of stuff on ESRI and other software….
- Google Earth Blog
- Another new blog to bring to your attention: Frank Taylor’s solid and eponymous Google Earth Blog. Via Ogle Earth. Map blogging is coming on fast and furious; that’s the fifth new blog I’ve reported on this month, and I know…
- GeoCarta
- Back when I started The Map Room, map blogs were few and far between; nowadays I’m learning about new blogs all the time. The most recent one I’ve stumbled across is Roger Hart’s GeoCarta, which he describes as “a blog…
- Cartography: CCA Blog
- Cartography is the blog of (or for) the Canadian Cartographic Association; it’s also good reading for “other individuals interested in all things cartographic,” writes Paul Heersink, who submitted this link. It’s been running since April; its choice of topics has…
- GPS Tracklog and Buyer’s Guide
- Rich Owings, author of GPS Mapping: Make Your Own Maps (Amazon, web site), reports that he’s started a new blog about GPS and mapping software called GPS Tracklog. Like The Map Room, it’s aimed at mere mortals rather than professionals….
- Ogle Earth
- I don’t know how I missed Ogle Earth, but now that I’ve found it I’m keeping an eye on it. Written by Stefan Geens, with a mandate is to focus on Google Earth and its competitors, Ogle Earth has been…
- New URL for All Points Blog
- Directions magazine’s All Points Blog launched last February, and it’s become one of the best mapping blogs out there. I guess they could be considered the competition, in terms of us both being advertising-supported blogs, but we’re serving different niches:…
- Sprol
- Sprol is a relatively new blog that uses satellite imagery to draw attention to the effects of environmental predation. Via MetaFilter….
- Vector One: “Mapping Is About Freedom”
- Vector One is “a spatially related blog” by Jeff Thurston, focusing mostly on locative technologies and GIS; it’s been running for a year but I only found out about it late last week. Shame on me. In a recent post,…
- More Sites About Google Maps
- Since its launch a little less than three months ago, Google Maps has generated more buzz than any other mapping site since I’ve been paying attention to them. Adding satellite photos only made it worse. That buzz can be measured…
- A Google Maps Update
- I’ve been saving up a bunch of Google Maps satellite imagery links for you over the weekend. Google Maps and Accountability: Dave Shea explores the possibilities of using Google Maps as a tool for whistleblowing rather than a threat to…
- New BlogMap API, Features
- Chandu Thota has added an API and other features to BlogMap (see previous entry). Via Scoble….
- Webmapper
- Possibly the strangest way I’ve yet had a link submitted is via someone’s comment in the reader survey: “Excellent reading. Combines well with www.webmapper.net.” Hold the phone — I hadn’t actually heard of webmapper.net. (Insert Jon Stewart going “whaaaaa?” all…
- Engadget
- My coverage of GPS stuff is paltry at best, but gadget blog Engadget has a dedicated GPS section (RSS feed) that I’ll be keeping an eye on, to learn more about the subject….
- GeoPDF
- GeoPDF looks like the company blog of Layton Graphics, which puts out (pricey) software that adds georeferencing to PDF files. The blog, which started this month, naturally covers their stuff, but also has a few more general map entries. Atom…
- Mapping Hacks
- Mapping Hacks, forthcoming from O’Reilly, isn’t just a book of tips on everything from using mapping sites to using a GPS to building your own maps (see the table of contents), it’s also a blog. I must confess to being…
- Two Ways to Geocode Your Blog
- “Geocoding” is adding latitude/longitude data to something to indicate its physical location — for example, geocoding a digital photograph so you can pinpoint where it was taken, or geocoding your blog so that people can know where you’re blogging from….
- Hungarian Map Blog
- This is a blog about maps written in Hungarian. Because I can’t read Hungarian, that’s all I can say about it….
- Urban Cartography
- A new blog, Urban Cartography, “dedicated to covering cartography and related subjects: urban planning, land use, imaging, GIS technology, urban studies and anything else that fits under the umbrella,” is now up and running. It apparently went live today, so…
