Maps, Mapmaking, and Geopolitics

Oblique relief map of East Asia and the western Pacific showing landforms and seabed geography.

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Maps, Mapmaking,
and Geopolitics

Please explore the site to find original maps available for free download, along with my writings on cartography, geography, geopolitics, and mapmaking, as well as other related topics.

EXPLORE THE MAP ↗

World & geopolitics

PUBLISHED WRITING

Publications

US Naval Institute Proceedings, October 2026

Visualizing the Next Maritime Strategy ↗

Naval History, February 2025

Forgotten American Innovator: Alexander Macomb Mason, ↗

(Book Chapter) in Zak Cope (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics (2024)

Geopolitics with and Without Geography: the Rise and Fall of Maps as Visual Arguments, ↗

ALL PUBLICATIONS ↗

MAKE YOUR OWN MAPS

Mapmaking Tools

↗Range Ring World Tiler ↗↗Range Fan ↗↗Great Circles ↗↗Outline Map ↗↗Multirings ↗↗GeoRange (HowFar) ↗

Blog

4 October 2026

Two new tools: GeoRange game and World Range Ring Tiler ↗

24 January 2026

Classic 1925 French Globe by G. Thomas of Paris ↗

18 October 2025

Bluebook Maps ↗

ALL POSTS ↗

Maps, Mapmaking,and Geopolitics

East Asia and the Western Pacific Viewed from Eurasia

Normandy and Taiwan Compared

United States Elevation

Alabama Pines: Places in Jason Isbell's Songs

Lakes and Islands Compared

The Baltic Sea in Perspective

Baltic Sea Population and Shipping

Allied Shipping Losses in the North Atlantic