"Maps" Blogs & Blog Posts

A new moon atlas is the most detailed ever produced, based on data from the Chang'e-1 mission and published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile, rev...

When I was a kid, I loved old maps — there was something incredibly evocative about imagining how people of a bygone era lived, comparing the streets of then to the streets of now. It felt like the closest thing I had to a time machine.  ̵...

15,399 ships were sunk in World War II, with a tonnage of 43,658,518 and 567,618 casualities. Sunken Ships of the Second World War presents the data as a handsome single-serve site. You can click on individual dots to find out data on the specific in...

What3words is the best location app, but people aren't using it enough. Everyone has GPS on their phones, so they may see a new way of identifying locations as unnecessary. However, there are instances when you may want to meet at a specific place w...

The Cruise Maps Giveaway – Print Your Cruise Itinerary Map! Last year, I highlighted ‘The Cruise Maps’ a company launched also last year by Matthew Jones and Will Ellison. They offer prints and framed... The post The Cruise Maps...

Keep an eye on the world as our ancestors saw it at Oculi Mundi, an interactive collection of ancient maps you can explore and zoom into. It includes atlases of both Earth and sky. Oculi Mundi is a digital heritage destination: the home of The...

Fra Mauro's World Map is a zoomable, explorable online version of his 15th-century mappa mundi. It comes complete with exhaustive resources, videos and texts about the historical context, too. The orientation of the map by Fra Mauro (active ca. 143...