To be honest, my first impression of the new Google Maps design was how sluggish it seemed. My iMac has a quad-core Ivy Bridge Core i5, a dedicated graphics chipset and a 20-Mbps Internet connection,...

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Here's someone building -- by hand -- a scale model of Westeros. Updated with photos at every step of construction. Madness! I approve. Via Boing Boing....

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Just found out about Chet Van Duzer's Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, a new book out this month from British Library Publishing, which explores the monsters drawn on maps from the 10th...

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The Cassini team has released a global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. What makes this map interesting is the fact that, due to its thick atmosphere, Titan can only be mapped by radar during...

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Google announced a complete redesign of Google Maps at their I/O developer conference yesterday. The new maps are vector-based, take up the entire browser window and change based on the context --...

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OpenStreetMap has launched a new map editing interface that runs, for the first time, in HTML5. (Potlatch, the previous web-based map editor, uses Flash, and JOSM runs in Java, which I always thought...

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A map-making competition asking participants to submit maps of their fictional worlds? That's precisely the sort of thing I should bring to your attention, now that it's been brought to mine. First...

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In 2007 Eddie Jabbour released the KickMap, a map of the New York subway system that tried to square the circle of various competing and controversial New York subway map designs. The KickMap later...

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A new book collects hand-drawn maps of Manhattan submitted by both anonymous and notable New Yorkers: Becky Cooper's Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers. It...

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Via Kottke, news of a new map book that sounds rather interesting: A Map of the World: The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers, described by the publisher as "a compelling collection of...

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This is something I've been meaning to write for a while. I should have written it last December, during the hullaballoo over Apple's maps, but I've never been one to strike when the iron is hot....

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My search for examples of maps being used as a fantasy fiction trope brought me to the works of James A. Owen, namely, his Imaginarium Geographica series of young-adult novels, six volumes and...

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In 2010 I blogged about Neil Freeman's reimagined United States where the 50 states were redrawn so that each state had the same population. (That map had been circulating for a few years prior to...

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NASA has released a free-air gravity map of the Moon: "If the Moon were a perfectly smooth sphere of uniform density, the gravity map would be a single, featureless color, indicating that the force...

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Terry Pratchett once declared the Discworld unmappable ("There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humour."); all the same, there is now an interactive map of principal city Ankh-Morpork for the...

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