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 city maps; a move is underway to have them all share a common (and commonly developed) map.

A new edition of the Peters Map (see previous entry) has been released by ODT Maps with new supplemental material that shows other equal-area projections and tones down the proselytizing (it doesn’t bash Mercator). Thanks to Tony for the early heads-up; see also GeoCarta.

Via MapHist and MAPS-L, we learn that the New York Map Society is being reactivated; see also First Printing.