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Two new tools: GeoRange game and World Range Ring Tiler
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Classic 1925 French Globe by G. Thomas of Paris
An interesting addition to my collection was this beautiful 1925-1930 globe made by the French globemaker G. Thomas. Dating the globe relies on the appearance of three toponyms together: Leningrad, Oslo, and Constantinople. St. Pe…
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Bluebook Maps
There have been lots of articles in 2025 about the return of blue books to university exams. In many parts of the world, the blue book blank map never went out of style. I have been playing with a series of blank maps in pale blue…
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Baltic Sea: Oblique Orthographic View of Maritime Geopolitics
I took the existing orthographic oblique style I have used for some other recent maps and made this map after reading a few news stories about the Baltic. This rotation and framing gives a fresh perspective on the maritime geograp…
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Rafael Palacios– Update and Forthcoming Article
A few years ago I came across a map by Rafael Palacios in a bookstore. Over time I found more and more of them and got caught up in what I then saw as a mystery. As it turns out, Palacios was one of the most prolific mapmakers of …
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MetBrewer Orthographic Maps
I am still working on my online tool for creating simple Orthographic maps (including oblique views) without any GIS skills. The beta version is hosted here . I am not good at writing code and have relied on a lot of help from Cha…
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Dark Shipping Maps
I did several experiments with the IMF Global Shipping data layer, including for the Geopolitics series I posted earlier. But I also tried a few general visualizations. I then adapted the same style to looking at historical data, …
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Cyanotypes
I was inspired by a number of old cyanotype or "blueprint" maps. It is an antiquated reproduction method, but the simplicity of the style can be really beautiful.…
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More Geopolitics
These maps are mostly adaptations of maps I have made in the past, but updated and reformatted to fit into a book.…
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Wagner IV Projection
In the course of a few map projects for Palgrave and Georgetown, I have been trying to imitate a style that many French cartographers have adopted to display data across the whole world. In many cases, these inventive projections …
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Nordic Region
This map attempts to adapt the styles and techniques I have used elsewhere to the Nordic Region. I think this perspective does a good job of emphasizing the maritime nature of the region. This map isn't quite finished-- it needs s…
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Geopolitics Series
One of the big projects for this spring was a series of ten geopolitical maps to accompany a book chapter I have written for the new Palgrave Handbook of Geopolitics. I will post more when it is published later this year, but here…
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