After 40 years of work, the History of Cartography project is coming to a close. But with evolving modern technology and cultural perceptions about maps, UW researchers claim cartographers’ work is ...

In last week’s design journal, Character Roles & Skill Advancement we talked broadly about the four different character roles, the different skill trees - including the Survival and Bardic trees, and ...

If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

Created by the mastermind behind ‘Very Useful Maps’, these images are not your regular markers of geographic areas.

Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...

The Cartography Center of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) started in October of 1941 with hand-drawn maps that plotted the geographic data of World War II. The Center today harnesses more ...

Walter W. Ristow learned to drive by skidding his family's Model T across the frozen lakes of Wisconsin and later drove through every state in the Lower 48. No one can remember a single time he got ...

I love maps. There's something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. I've previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual ...