Book Reviews

Review: Transit Maps of the World
Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden Penguin, 2007. Paperback, 144 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-14-311265-5 Billed on its cover as “the world’s first collection of every urban train map on Earth,” this is, in fact, the second revised edition of… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Cities, Mass Transit
Review: Canada Back Road Atlas
Canada Back Road Atlas MapArt, 2007. Paperback, 702 pp. ISBN-13 978-1-55368-614-9 MapArt is easily the largest publisher of road maps in Canada, publishing not only maps of cities and metropolitan areas (both as folded maps and as coil-bound and saddle-stitched… »
Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Roads
Review: Longitude
Longitude by Dava Sobel Walker and Company, 1995, 2007. Paperback, xiv + 184 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8027-1529-6 Latitude and longitude are basics of accurate map-making and navigation. In an age of pervasive GPS signals, it’s easy to forget that determining your… »
Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Categories: Book Reviews
Review: Our Dumb World
Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth by The Onion Little, Brown, 2007. Hardcover, 245 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-316-08142-5 As I mentioned before, Our Dumb World is The Onion’s take on the sort of atlas exemplified by the old National… »
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Categories: Book Reviews
Review: The Geist Atlas of Canada
The Geist Atlas of Canada: Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies by Melissa Edwards Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006. Softcover, 128 pp. ISBN 1-55152-216-0 Early on in The Map Room’s existence, we learned about a quirky feature emanating from Geist, a… »
Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 at 1:23 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Toponyms
Review: From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame by Mark Monmonier University of Chicago Press, 2006. Hardcover, 229 pp. ISBN 0-226-53465-0 When I was living in Edmonton, I heard the story of Chinaman’s Peak. In 1886,… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 9:32 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Toponyms
Review: Seeing Through Maps
Seeing Through Maps by Denis Wood, Ward L. Kaiser and Bob Abramms ODT, 2006. Softcover, 160 pp. ISBN 1-931057-20-6 It’s really not a difficult concept: there are no “right” and “wrong” cartographic projections. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages,… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 11:25 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Map Projections, Video
Review: How to Lie with Maps
How to Lie with Maps (Second Edition) by Mark Monmonier University of Chicago Press, 1996. Softcover, 220 pp. ISBN 0-226-53421-9 While reading this modern classic by Syracuse University geography professor Mark Monmonier (see previous entry), I was struck by how… »
Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 at 8:34 AM
Categories: Book Reviews, Cartography, Map Projections
Book Review: Walking with Your Ancestors by Melinda Kashuba
Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist’s Guide to Using Maps and Geography by Melinda Kashuba Family Tree Books, 2005. Softcover, 226 pp. ISBN 1-55870-730-1 I do other things besides this web site; one of these is to volunteer at the… »
Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Categories: Book Reviews
Book Review: Making Maps by Krygier and Wood
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS by John Krygier and Denis Wood Guilford Press, 2005. Softcover, 303 pp. ISBN 1-59385-200-2 I love this book. It’s just so neat. Although Making Maps is aimed at a GIS… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 9:21 AM
Categories: Book Reviews, Cartography, GIS
Book Review: GPS Mapping by Rich Owings
GPS Mapping: Make Your Own Maps by Rich Owings Ten Mile Press, 2005. Softcover, 382 pp. ISBN 0-9760926-3-8 This is a book for people who want to get their hands dirty with mapping software and GPS units and generate maps… »
Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Categories: Book Reviews, GPS, Software, Topo Maps & Trails

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