Ben Keene, the editor of Oxford University Press’s atlas program, looks at the geographic changes over the past year — new parks, new countries, old cities with new names — that cartographers will have to deal with when they update their maps (previously).

Update, 12/31: See also 2006: The Year of Mapping Dangerously, also by Ben Keene.

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