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

31 October 2026

Eurasia ↗

31 October 2026

Stedformstenfund ↗

7 October 2026

Launching a New Thinking in Space website ↗

ALL POSTS ↗

Maps, Mapmaking,and Geopolitics

East Asia and the Western Pacific Viewed from Eurasia

Normandy and Taiwan Compared

United States Elevation

AUKUS

Lakes and Islands Compared

The Baltic Sea in Perspective

Alabama Pines: Places in Jason Isbell's Songs

East Coast Shipping