In June, I had the opportunity to visit the University of Wisconsin, to see the globe collection of the American Geographical Society (AGS), in Milwaukee. The AGS’s entire collection of…
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I had the pleasure of meeting two men who spend much of their time making maps from London’s data. Oliver O’Brien is an expert in web mapping and the lead…
I had the pleasure of attending the Royal Geographical Society’s (with IBG) Annual Conference in London in early September. I really didn’t know what to expect, and it turned out to…
I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of fine art into Royal Geographical Society’s (with IBG) Annual Conference. The RGS has a commitment of pairing artists and geographers to help…
Originally I thought this might be a good place to learn about maps and mapping. I wasn’t entirely correct. In this post I discuss how I managed to make sense…
I first read about this Atlas in On the Map by Simon Garfield. It sounded fascinating – the work of Herbert Bayer, of Bauhaus fame, of whom I learned about…
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