Blogs

Map Hawk
Map Hawk, a side project by Directions Media’s Joe Francica, is a blog that “will cover the use of maps, mapping technology and location-based information in the media”; topics so far include the U.S. elections, the recent Russia-Georgia crisis, and… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Categories: Blogs, Current Events
Razón Cartografica
Razón Cartografica’s aim is to promote the history of geography and cartography in Colombia and Latin America. The first issue of its bulletin is here; there’s also a blog. In Spanish, of course, so I can’t say much more about… »
Posted on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Categories: Blogs, History of Cartography
Fantasy Cartography
Fantasy Cartography is a blog that reprints scans of maps from science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as role-playing and computer games. The archives are quite extensive. Via La Cartoteca…. »
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Categories: Blogs, Imaginary Places
Two Blogs
The Toronto Star has a map blog, the main content of which is a map of the week feature and which anchors the Star’s online mapping efforts. Thanks to Richard for the link. Chris Watson wrote to tell us… »
Posted on Monday, July 21, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Categories: Blogs
Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the… »
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Copyright, Facebook, Geotagging, Google Earth, Map Projections, Triangulations (Links), Video
Three Blogs
Google Earth Design has been around for more than a year, but I’ve apparently missed it until now; the subject of good map design within Google Earth seems a laudable one. Ryan Strynatka writes about his blog, The Fiducial… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS, Google Earth
Link Roundup: Early July Edition
Off camping for a few days; here are a few links to tide you over: Roger Hart’s very good blog, GeoCarta, has moved to a new address and a new platform. The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center’s map collection is… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Categories: Blogs, Books, GIS, Hacks & Mashups, Industry News, Libraries, Triangulations (Links)
Blog Milestones
MetaCarta has a blog. “As you can tell by its name, this is a corporate sponsored blog. That said, the goal of the blog is to open up discussion on a wide-range of geography-related issues — not to be… »
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Categories: Blogs
More Google News: Banned in Minnesota; New Developer Blog
Two more recent Google-related items: North Oaks, a rather xenophobic town in Minnesota — the streets are privately owned — has asked Google to remove it from Street View; Google has complied with the town’s request. Google’s gotten into trouble… »
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Categories: Blogs, Censorship & Security, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
About That All Points Blog/Daily Kos Thing
Apologies in advance for the inside baseball, but in light of the fracas that has developed over All Points Blog’s link to a map-related story on Daily Kos, a partisan Democratic blog, let me say the following: I saw the… »
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Categories: Blogs
Contour Lines and Other Stories: A Google Roundup
Contour lines have been added to Google Maps’s terrain map layer, which adds its their usefulness (especially, for example, in a mountain context). But it has some way to go before it’s a suitable replacement for a topo map;… »
Posted on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups, Mass Transit, Online Maps, Topo Maps & Trails
Two More Blogs and a Directory Update
Two new mapping-related blogs, both kind of technical: Spatial Ed by Ed Katibah, the spatial project manager for Microsoft’s SQL Server (via James). The Thematic Mapping Blog, the stated purpose of which is “to elaborate ideas of how geobrowsers and… »
Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Categories: Blogs
MapQuest Platform: Free Edition
MapQuest has relaunched its mapping APIs, calling them the MapQuest Platform: Free Edition. I’m not exactly sure how this works: MapQuest has had a free API along with commercial partnerships; I don’t know if this is meant to replace both,… »
Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
Blogging the Festival of Maps
Hugh Yeman writes, “I recently caught the cartography bug, and I’ve spent the last several weeks writing almost exclusively about two visits to the Chicago Festival of Maps. As I’ve researched the exhibit items I’ve been quite surprised to find… »
Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
Daily Maps
National Geographic’s Map of the Day site provides (in a vein similar to that of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, which it is strongly reminiscent of) a map along with a brief description every weekday (more or less). Maps… »
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs
Blogs into Books
First came the BibliOdyssey book, a dead-tree compilation based on our friend PK’s excellent blog about archival images (some of which are maps, so I have no qualms about mentioning either blog or book; here’s the Amazon link for the… »
Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Categories: Blogs, Books
You Are Here, Hon
You Are Here, Hon is a new map blog by someone going by the name of Her Majesty of Maps. With names like that, this could turn out to be interesting…. »
Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 7:02 AM
Categories: Blogs
Festival of Maps Reviews
Brendan Crain writes, “I have seen a few posts on The Map Room about the Festival of Maps here in Chicago. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been attending and reviewing the shows around town. Here’s a… »
Posted on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 5:45 AM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
TOPO! Hacker
TOPO! Hacker is a relatively new, unofficial blog about messing around with National Geographic’s TOPO! software. Via GPS Tracklog…. »
Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 8:19 PM
Categories: Blogs
Two More Blogs
Mad props to two new blogs: Jamie’s Cartophilia, a blog from an enthusiast’s, rather than a professional’s perspective (which sounds oddly familiar); and Richard’s Tech Reviews, a spin-off of his Science Library Pad, which despite its name had quite a… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Categories: Blogs
Maps and More
Joost Depuydt’s new blog, Maps and More, seems to be taking a turn towards maps in advertising and graphic design so far…. »
Posted on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Categories: Blogs
Festival of Maps Now Open
Chicago’s Festival of Maps officially opened on Friday; in addition to its new website, which went live in September, there is also a Festival of Maps blog to help us keep track of the proceedings. And there’s a lot to… »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Categories: Blogs, Chicago Festival of Maps
The Electoral Map
Speaking of election maps, The Electoral Map is a relatively new blog that’s all about them (at least within an American context). What I find interesting is that the maps featured on this blog are definitely about elections and politics,… »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 9:11 AM
Categories: Blogs, Electoral Maps
Blog URL Changes
Stefan reports that Google Karten has moved to gkarten.blogspot.com. The ESRI Support Center blog has moved to blogs.esri.com/Support/blogs/supportcenter…. »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7:45 AM
Categories: Blogs
Contours: National Geographic Map Blog
National Geographic Maps has started a blog called Contours, which is being hosted on BlogSpot until their main site is relaunched in January, according to an NG Maps representative…. »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7:41 AM
Categories: Blogs
New York Public Library Map Blog
The New York Public Library’s skunkworks is currently experimenting with a number of blogs, one of which — quite naturally, given the existence of the NYPL’s map division — deals with maps: Maps @ NYPL is still at an early… »
Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Categories: Blogs, Libraries, New York
More on the Robinson Projection
On his relatively new Terra ETL Blog, which I had not noticed before, Dean C. Mikkelsen has a nice post explaining the Robinson projection, the compromise projection created for aesthetic purposes by the late Arthur Robinson. (You may recall that… »
Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Categories: Blogs, Map Projections
MapQuest Beta and Blog
MapQuest — still the ostensible market leader in online mapping, apparently — has taken some steps to catch up with its upstart rivals. Its new blog — yes, MapQuest now has a blog — begins with a post announcing… »
Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 8:56 PM
Categories: Blogs, Online Maps
CartoBlog
Krygier and Wood are also involved, as two of several authors, in another cartography blog, CartoBlog, which seems to flow from the CartoTalk forum. The most recent entry, Allelopathic Maps and Google’s “My Maps”, is a good one: it argues… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 9:32 PM
Categories: Blogs, Cartography
Slashgeo Pining for the Fjords
The reports of Slashgeo’s death may have been greatly exaggerated…. »
Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 at 2:22 PM
Categories: Blogs
A Map Blog Update: GeoWeb, Cartographismes and More
The GeoWeb 2007 conference, which takes place later this month and deals with “the convergence of Web technologies, XML, Web services, and GIS,” has a conference blog. The blog associated with Krygier and Wood’s excellent book, Making Maps (reviewed here),… »
Posted on Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Conferences, GIS, Online Maps
Slashgeo Closes Down
Unfortunately, Slashgeo is closing down, for an all too common reason: too much work to do in Alex’s spare time. Too few people who shared his enthusiasm for the project. And, though he doesn’t say it explicitly, for too little… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Categories: Blogs
Map Blog Update
Leszek reports that his Free GeoTools blog is moving to a new URL — freegeographytools.com — and a new name: Free Geography Tools. Via Catholicgauze, the Infonaut Blog, from a company that does map-based medical IT stuff. Given all that… »
Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Categories: Blogs
Three More Blogs
Update your RSS readers — here are three more blogs for you: Le blogue du LFG by Henri Willox; in French; an interest in Google mapping stuff. Digital Earth Blog by Mickey Mellen; foci include Google Earth and Maps, Virtual… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Categories: Blogs
GeoPress for Movable Type
Still with Where 2.0. GeoPressMT, a Movable Type version of the GeoPress plugin, previously WordPress only (see previous entry), was also announced today. It enables embedding geographic information in posts (especially their RSS feeds) and adding maps…. »
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 6:51 PM
Categories: Blogs
Google Finally Gets a Map Blog
Yahoo and Microsoft have had mapping blogs for a while, but not Google — at least not until today, when the Google Lat Long Blog, which covers Maps, Earth, Local and the mapping API, made its debut. Now where’s the… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups, Online Maps
RenaLId
RenaLId, which I referred to earlier today, is a French blog by Renaud Euvrard; it’s been focusing mainly on online maps, with an understandable amount of recent coverage of the French presidential elections. (I can’t explain the caps in the… »
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Categories: Blogs
GeoThought by Peter Batty
Former Intergraph CTO Peter Batty now has a blog: GeoThought. Via All Points Blog and Anything Geospatial…. »
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
Matt Fox’s Google Earth Library
Matt Fox, whose work we’ve seen before, has started a new blog about Google Earth content — Google Earth Library — which already has a ferocious amount of material posted. Via Google Earth Blog…. »
Posted on Monday, April 9, 2007 at 6:28 PM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth
Planet Geospatial, Planet OSGeo
James reports that he’s pushed out an improved version of Planet Geospatial, the geospatial blog aggregator, that should be a bit less wonky in its operation. Meanwhile, Christopher Schmidt decided that Planet Geospatial wasn’t for him, not only because of… »
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 8:14 AM
Categories: Blogs
Three More Blogs; Directory Update
First, three more map/geospatial blogs for you: Free GeoTools by Leszek Pawlowicz, which started in January; points to (mostly Windows) software tools and data sources; covers quite a bit of ground, actually. Hablandodesigs by Juan Manuel Uribe Medina, a Mexican… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Categories: Blogs, Site News
A Tip of the Hat to Strange Maps
Strange Maps launched last September and first came to my attention in October. Since then it’s generated all kinds of buzz in the blogging world, establishing itself as a map blog with serious crossover appeal. I’ve been delighted to see… »
Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Categories: Blogs
Cartographic Perspectives Blog
Cartographic Perspectives, the peer-reviewed journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society, now (as of yesterday) has a blog. Writes John Krygier in the blog’s first (and so far only) entry: “I plan to post abstracts and summaries of… »
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Categories: Blogs, Scholarly Journals
Two Geospatial Industry Blogs
Two new blogs from the geospatial industry: ESRI Support Center News (via James, who notes that it “seems to be in a holding pattern”); and MapInfo’s Location Intelligence Blog (via All Points Blog)…. »
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 10:18 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
MapHead
Nat Case writes, “I’ve recently started a blog on the ontology of maps (and other stuff that comes to mind). I’m a cartographer, head of production for Hedberg Maps and this blog is an outgrowth of 15+ years of talking… »
Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 at 8:45 AM
Categories: Blogs
Two Blogs I Missed
Two more blogs to tell you about, though they’ve been around long enough that I should have spotted them sooner. I linked to a page on High Earth Orbit’s site before, but since then Andrew Turner has added a blog… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 2:46 PM
Categories: Blogs
Two More Blogs
Stefan has discovered two brand-spanking-new blogs that have started up this very month: the Google Earth Hacks blog accompanies the site of the same name; MapWrapper.com is a GIS blog with an interest in earth sciences and remote sensing. Previously:… »
Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 at 10:11 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS, Google Earth, Satellite & Aerial
Two Reactivated Map Blogs
I’m pleased to see the return of two blogs I’d given up for dead: Roger Hart’s GeoCarta and Antal Guszlev’s Térképes Egoblog (in Hungarian). Back in the directory with you both…. »
Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Categories: Blogs
Best of Geospatial 2006
Sean Gillies has compiled a list of the best of the geospatial community and blogosphere for 2006. I can’t really add to it (though I’m listed) because I’m not really a member of that community, just an imperfect observer. If… »
Posted on Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 9:49 AM
Categories: Blogs
University of Chicago Press Blog
The University of Chicago Press has a blog that talks up their books; of interest to us is the Cartography and Geography category, where you can find links to reviews and discussions of such books as Mark Monmonier’s From Squaw… »
Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Categories: Blogs, Books
Tanto: Italian Map Blog
Andrea Borruso writes to tell us about his blog about cartography, GIS and other subjects; since it’s in Italian, I can’t say much about it, but I can at the very least point it out to you…. »
Posted on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 4:20 PM
Categories: Blogs
A Reader’s Guide to Geoblogs
Directions tries to makes sense of the rather large geospatial and mapping blogosphere with A Reader’s Guide to Geoblogs. It says something about your perspective, though, if maps, “paper and otherwise,” are considered a special interest while ESRI and Autodesk… »
Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:43 AM
Categories: Blogs
A Blog for ‘London: A Life in Maps’
There are hardly any posts up yet, but the London: A Life in Maps exhibition now has an accompanying blog. Via MapHist. Previously: London: A Life in Maps — Now Open and Online; Peter Barber on “London: A Life in… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs, London, London: A Life in Maps
Charpentier’s GeoData Blog
GeoData Blog is a French-language blog about geospatial data by Christophe Charpentier (who’s spent more than six years working on Cartosphère). Up and running since March, but really taking off in the last two months. Via Catholicgauze…. »
Posted on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 4:03 PM
Categories: Blogs
Garmin Store Opening in Chicago
Engadget covers this weekend’s opening of Garmin’s flagship retail store in Chicago, with plenty of photos to stimulate those who would find an upscale store dedicated to GPS products stimulating. Also points to Garmin’s corporate blog, which I don’t think… »
Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 9:12 PM
Categories: Blogs, Dealers & Stores, GPS
MapKit
Platial has introduced MapKit, which integrates their service, built atop the Google Maps API, into your web page or blog (though there seem to be issues with certain blogging engines, including WordPress and Blogger). It looks profoundly easy to… »
Posted on Friday, November 3, 2006 at 9:15 AM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
Cartography’s Last Post
A year ago, if you had asked me which mapping blogs were my favourites (and my greatest competition), I would have said, with little hesitation, Cartography, the Canadian Cartographic Association blog run by Paul Heersink, and GeoCarta, by surveyor Roger… »
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 8:20 PM
Categories: Blogs
Strange Maps
Strange Maps is a relatively new blog about maps with a taste for the hypothetical, the fictional and the unusual. Via Cartography…. »
Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 9:49 PM
Categories: Blogs, Imaginary Places
Google Blogs Google Earth
Google itself is getting into the Google Earth blogging action, but Using Google Earth is a bit more basic, more introductory in its coverage than Stefan and Frank are. It’s written by Google Earth team member John Gardiner. Via Ogle… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 6:47 PM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth
Warping Waldseemüller
John Hessler’s Warping Waldseemüller is a new blog about applying mathematical methods to old maps as a way of testing their accuracy. Sounds like it’s working the same vein as the new scholarly journal e_Perimetron (see previous entry). Via MapHist…. »
Posted on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 7:52 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs, Georeferencing
Free GIS Data GeoBlog
Free GIS Data GeoBlog points to GIS data available for free online; it’s another project by Glenn Letham, whom we’ve heard of before: he’s also behind Anything Geospatial and GISUser.com, among other things. Via Cartography and GPS Tracklog…. »
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 10:32 PM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
GeoPress, a WordPress Plugin
GeoPress “is a WordPress plugin that allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts.” Via O’Reilly Radar, which covers it in some detail. See previous entry: Google Maps WordPress Plugins…. »
Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 4:30 PM
Categories: Blogs
OpenStreetMap Animations
Brady Forrest, covering FOSS4G2006 for O’Reilly Radar, links to some fascinating animations from the OpenStreetMap project. This one tracks two days’ worth of courier activity in London: There are also videos that track the growth in GPS traces for OpenStreetMap… »
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Categories: Blogs, Conferences, Copyright, Tracerouting
Cartography Blog Seeks Bloggers
An upcoming employment change is forcing Paul to scale back from blogging at Cartography, the Canadian Cartographic Association’s blog, so he’s looking for one or more people to share in the blogging duties. Bloggers should be CCA members — this… »
Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 8:32 AM
Categories: Blogs
Google Karten
Google Karten is a German-language blog about Google Maps and its ecosystem. Via Kartentisch…. »
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 at 1:31 PM
Categories: Blogs
Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax
Books about Google’s mapping services continue to appear. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax is a new book about producing web applications using the Google Maps API and your data, whether your data is small and simple… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 3:14 PM
Categories: Blogs, Books, Hacks & Mashups
Islamic Cartography Blog
Tarek Kahlaoui, who is working on a Ph.D. dissertation on Islamic cartography in the 13th to 16th centuries at the University of Pennsylvania, has just started a blog on the subject that will include, over time, a bibliography of the… »
Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 7:12 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs, Cartography
Map the Universe
Blogs about antique maps, rather than the geospatial industry, are few and far between, but a new blog about antique maps and map collecting, plus the usual gamut of general subjects, started last month, with an eerily similar premise: Map… »
Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 at 9:26 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs
QGIS
QGIS, an open-source, multiplatform GIS application, has a blog by its developers. Via James Fee, who’s been covering QGIS for a while…. »
Posted on Saturday, August 5, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
Google Earth: Flickr Browsing Tools; Enterprise Blog
If you have a Flickr account and are interested in geotagging, don’t miss Frank’s roundup on Google Earth Blog: Three Flickr Photo Browsing Tools for Google Earth — the point of which is to allow you to browse geotagged Flickr… »
Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 at 8:20 AM
Categories: Blogs, Geotagging, Google Earth
More Map Blogs; StumbleUpon
If you’re sick of hearing about Google Earth and would like to hear more about NASA World Wind, have I got a blog for you: The Earth Is Square. It’s not dedicated to World Wind per se, but it’s frequently… »
Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 5:34 PM
Categories: Blogs, Groups & Societies, World Wind
Blog Roundup
Glenn is moving Anything Geospatial back to BlogSpot (see previous entry); if you’re accessing it via anygeo.com (see previous entry) the changeover will be automatic, though you may want to update any RSS subscriptions. Recent first-year blog anniversaries for, and… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at 2:47 PM
Categories: Blogs
New(ish) Mapping Blogs
Map GIS News Blog for UK, Europe and World Maps is a relatively new general-interest mapping blog with an emphasis on British topics and a really unwieldy name. GIS Dirtbag is probably the closest thing the mapping blogosphere has to… »
Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Categories: Blogs
Ogle Earth Turns One
Another mapping blog celebrates its first anniversary: this time it’s Ogle Earth. Congratulations, Stefan. (812 posts in one year? Yow.)… »
Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006 at 6:30 PM
Categories: Blogs
MTMaps
The MTGoogleMaps Movable Type plugin (now at version 4.0) has some competition, kind of: MTMaps, now at version 0.6, which also uses Google Maps. Developer Patrick Calahan writes, “MTMaps is different from other map plugins in that it associates map… »
Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 8:52 PM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
Yahoo! Local and Maps Blog
The folks behind Yahoo! Local and Maps now have a blog. In their most recent post, they announce they’re lifting restrictions on commercial uses of the mapping API…. »
Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 9:45 PM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
ESRI Blog: Geography Matters
Via James and Glenn, I discover ESRI’s new public (and possibly collaborative) blog about the GIS industry, Geography Matters. Still in its early stages; ought to be interesting to see how it develops…. »
Posted on Friday, June 9, 2006 at 8:10 PM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
Non-Mapping Blogs That Nevertheless Have Map Content from Time to Time
A big change from a year ago is that there are an awful lot of blogs about cartography, mapping and the geospatial industry: I list a bunch of them in the directory (which needs another update, I think), and there… »
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 3:16 PM
Categories: Blogs
Cartography Turns One
Blog anniversaries are breaking out all over; I guess a lot of mapping blogs had their start in 2005, and those that have stuck it out for long enough are now able to mark their first-year milestones. Cartography turned one… »
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 11:49 AM
Categories: Blogs
Google Maps Mania Turns One
Congratulations to Google Maps Mania on its first anniversary. I’ve given up trying to keep track of all the hacks and mashups — my present policy is to blog about them generally, and include any mashups when talking about a… »
Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 7:52 AM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
Mapping Blog Address Changes
A couple of address changes to tell you about. Glen reports that his new Anything Geospatial blog (previous entry) can be reached from the easier-to-remember URL of anygeo.com. On a similar note, James has moved Planet Geospatial, his geospatial blog… »
Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 at 9:44 AM
Categories: Blogs
Triangulations: March 27
Jeff Thurston’s contribution to the debate over free geodata looks at the question of scale: if you want geospatial data to be free and updated regularly, consider the huge amount of territory that has to be mapped. Wired’s piece,… »
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Blogs, Books, GIS, GPS, Hacks & Mashups, Topo Maps & Trails, Triangulations (Links)
Triangulations: March 20
An article about GPS and geocaching in South Africa points out the extreme markup for GPS devices in that country: they cost twice as much as they do in the U.S.. The proposed INSPIRE directive, which would ostensibly standardize… »
Posted on Monday, March 20, 2006 at 6:57 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS, GPS, Triangulations (Links)
Triangulations: March 13
The Batch Geocoding Blog has a comparison of the Google, MapQuest and Yahoo! mapping APIs; it’s a quick outline of what the author sees as the pros and cons of each. Via Very Spatial. Alex Stengel says MapMemo 2.5… »
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Blogs, Collecting, Google Earth, Hacks & Mashups, Macintosh, Satellite & Aerial, Triangulations (Links)
Link Roundup for February 7
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… »
Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 7:07 AM
Categories: Blogs, Cartography, GIS, Groups & Societies, Triangulations (Links)
Link Roundup for January 14
Ben Keene, the editor of Oxford University Press’s atlas program (see previous entry), looks at the changes in geography he had to deal with in 2005 (via World Hum). MapQuest has inadvertently left Edmonton off a map of Canadian cities… »
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 8:32 AM
Categories: Blogs, Books, Cartography, Education, Mapping Errors, Satellite & Aerial, Software
Kartentisch
Claus Moser has begun a German-language map blog: Kartentisch: Die Welt ist ein Atlas. This looks promising and I will keep an eye on it, my badly atrophied and rudimentary German notwithstanding…. »
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 at 9:34 AM
Categories: Blogs
Link Roundup for January 12
As an experiment, a lot of new links at once: A new Google Earth blog with a rather unwieldy title: Using Google Earth for Earth Science and Remote Sensing (via Ogle Earth). The Prejudice Map is built by querying Google… »
Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 9:41 AM
Categories: Blogs, Conferences, Groups & Societies, Libraries, Map Thefts, Miscellany, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial
2006 Bloggies: I Have No Shame
Nominations for the 2006 Bloggies — the sixth annual weblog awards — are now open, and close on the 10th. Since I have neither shame nor subtlely, may I do what every other attention-whoring blogger does at this time of… »
Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 5:05 PM
Categories: Blogs
La Cartoteca
La Cartoteca is a Spanish-language blog about maps and geography by Alejandro Polanco Masa. I’m always interested in hearing about mapping blogs in languages other than English, even if I can’t understand them myself (I read and speak French, and… »
Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 9:59 AM
Categories: Blogs
A Roundup: Society, Journal, Blog, Podcast
A few quick links for the Map Site Directory: Via MapHist, I’ve learned about the British Cartographic Society and its journal, The Cartographic Journal. ArcDeveloper is a new blog that should be of interest to ESRI GIS developers. Via Spatially… »
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 5:09 PM
Categories: Blogs, Cartography, GIS, Groups & Societies, Podcasts & Audio, Scholarly Journals
Google Maps WordPress Plugins
The WordPress Geo plugin allows bloggers using WordPress to specify a default location for their blog and assign geographic coordinates to specific posts. Dylan Kuhn takes this one step further with his Geo Mashup plugin, which takes that geographic data… »
Posted on Monday, November 21, 2005 at 8:14 AM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
Google Maps: API Blog, Wayfaring
Google has launched a Google Maps API blog to keep developers better informed about changes to the API, plus, they say (because there’s only one post so far), tips and so forth. Via Google Maps Mania. But if the API… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 12:15 PM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
USGS Insiders’ Blog
Topo Employees is an insiders’ blog by and for employees of the USGS national mapping program; presumably recent controversies about outsourcing maps and relocating their headquarters are fuelling a certain amount of disgruntlement above and beyound what is normal for… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 11:32 PM
Categories: Blogs
Google Maps Plugin for Movable Type
If you’re a blogger using Movable Type — which reminds me that I need to upgrade to version 3.2 at some point — you might be interested in the MTGoogleMaps plugin. It requires a Google Maps API key, naturally, but… »
Posted on Thursday, November 3, 2005 at 10:27 AM
Categories: Blogs, Hacks & Mashups
A Few More Blogs
A few more mapping-related blogs to tell you about, with still more to come. Most mapping blogs approach it from the GIS pro’s perspective; First Printing’s perspective is also professional — but it’s from a company dealing in antique maps… »
Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 10:15 PM
Categories: Blogs
Planet Geospatial
Planet Geospatial, by Spatially Adjusted’s James Fee, aggregates GIS, mapping and related blogs (including this one) into a single page. It’s a fine idea, and I’m happy to be along for the ride. (Believe it or not, I thought about… »
Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:59 PM
Categories: Blogs
Seven More Mapping Blogs
More mapping, cartography and geospatial blogs to go up on the sidebar: Darren Cope’s Blog — Darren’s a recent geography grad from the University of Waterloo. (Oddly enough, Mike from Google Maps Mania is from Waterloo, and I did my… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 12:54 PM
Categories: Blogs
Ten More Mapping Blogs
I posted links to a lot of new blogs next month, but Cartography’s roundup of cartography and related blogs last week brought a grand total of seven more blogs to my attention. Plus, I was already aware of Ed Parsons’s… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 8:03 AM
Categories: Blogs, GIS, Podcasts & Audio, Software
Spatially Adjusted
Another blog to tell you about, and I can’t believe I missed reporting this one earlier: Spatially Adjusted, a GIS blog by James Fee, with a lot of stuff on ESRI and other software…. »
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 5:43 PM
Categories: Blogs, GIS
Google Earth Blog
Another new blog to bring to your attention: Frank Taylor’s solid and eponymous Google Earth Blog. Via Ogle Earth. Map blogging is coming on fast and furious; that’s the fifth new blog I’ve reported on this month, and I know… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 3:44 PM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth, Satellite & Aerial
GeoCarta
Back when I started The Map Room, map blogs were few and far between; nowadays I’m learning about new blogs all the time. The most recent one I’ve stumbled across is Roger Hart’s GeoCarta, which he describes as “a blog… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 10:15 PM
Categories: Blogs
Cartography: CCA Blog
Cartography is the blog of (or for) the Canadian Cartographic Association; it’s also good reading for “other individuals interested in all things cartographic,” writes Paul Heersink, who submitted this link. It’s been running since April; its choice of topics has… »
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 10:36 AM
Categories: Blogs, Groups & Societies
GPS Tracklog and Buyer’s Guide
Rich Owings, author of GPS Mapping: Make Your Own Maps (Amazon, web site), reports that he’s started a new blog about GPS and mapping software called GPS Tracklog. Like The Map Room, it’s aimed at mere mortals rather than professionals…. »
Posted on Monday, August 8, 2005 at 9:17 AM
Categories: Blogs, GPS, Mobile Devices
Ogle Earth
I don’t know how I missed Ogle Earth, but now that I’ve found it I’m keeping an eye on it. Written by Stefan Geens, with a mandate is to focus on Google Earth and its competitors, Ogle Earth has been… »
Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 7:31 PM
Categories: Blogs, Google Earth, Satellite & Aerial
New URL for All Points Blog
Directions magazine’s All Points Blog launched last February, and it’s become one of the best mapping blogs out there. I guess they could be considered the competition, in terms of us both being advertising-supported blogs, but we’re serving different niches:… »
Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 10:12 PM
Categories: Blogs
Sprol
Sprol is a relatively new blog that uses satellite imagery to draw attention to the effects of environmental predation. Via MetaFilter…. »
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 4:34 PM
Categories: Blogs, Environment, Satellite & Aerial
Vector One: “Mapping Is About Freedom”
Vector One is “a spatially related blog” by Jeff Thurston, focusing mostly on locative technologies and GIS; it’s been running for a year but I only found out about it late last week. Shame on me. In a recent post,… »
Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 at 11:50 AM
Categories: Blogs
More Sites About Google Maps
Since its launch a little less than three months ago, Google Maps has generated more buzz than any other mapping site since I’ve been paying attention to them. Adding satellite photos only made it worse. That buzz can be measured… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at 11:15 PM
Categories: Blogs, Groups & Societies, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial
A Google Maps Update
I’ve been saving up a bunch of Google Maps satellite imagery links for you over the weekend. Google Maps and Accountability: Dave Shea explores the possibilities of using Google Maps as a tool for whistleblowing rather than a threat to… »
Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 12:30 AM
Categories: Blogs, Online Maps, Satellite & Aerial
New BlogMap API, Features
Chandu Thota has added an API and other features to BlogMap (see previous entry). Via Scoble…. »
Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 12:06 AM
Categories: Blogs
Webmapper
Possibly the strangest way I’ve yet had a link submitted is via someone’s comment in the reader survey: “Excellent reading. Combines well with www.webmapper.net.” Hold the phone — I hadn’t actually heard of webmapper.net. (Insert Jon Stewart going “whaaaaa?” all… »
Posted on Friday, April 1, 2005 at 11:17 AM
Categories: Blogs
Engadget
My coverage of GPS stuff is paltry at best, but gadget blog Engadget has a dedicated GPS section (RSS feed) that I’ll be keeping an eye on, to learn more about the subject…. »
Posted on Friday, March 25, 2005 at 12:22 PM
Categories: Blogs, GPS, Mobile Devices
GeoPDF
GeoPDF looks like the company blog of Layton Graphics, which puts out (pricey) software that adds georeferencing to PDF files. The blog, which started this month, naturally covers their stuff, but also has a few more general map entries. Atom… »