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 ...

Maps ”stir our imagination, loosen our tongues,” a geographer once said. Old maps go a step farther and reveal the imaginations of people who lived years ago. At the Newberry Library, with one of the ...

In this age of all things digital, it’s heartening to see that some aspects of human history are still best accessed via old fashioned cartography. That is, through what most of us would call maps --- ...

Embedded within a four-decade-long endeavor to document the history of cartography is a deceptively simple question: What is a map? In a world where most people interact with maps almost daily, ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and ...

Not so long ago generations of Australians learnt about the power of the British Empire, via the pink expanse on world maps hung on many a classroom wall. Over the years that pink, and other colours, ...

In an exciting transformation of development strategies, NHA CEO Sunil Kumar Barnwal has spotlighted the impact of digital cartography. During an inte ...