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being repaired here s a 2022 piece on how to move that globe properly from a moving company that actually did it link categories antique maps tags damage globes a google maps roundup published on 22 october 2026 22 october 2026 by jonathan crowe whatever you think about generative ai and you know what i think you have to concede that it isn t very good at making maps out of the box there are so many examples of it going horribly wrong interestingly google agrees general purpose llms and standard coding tools struggle with real world spatial problems because planetary datasets are massive with specialized map and satellite formats that require careful multi step planning to combine accurately google touts its suite of google earth ai models which it just so happens do all those things they re expanding agent access to them this is pro level stuff mind and from what i gather comparing machine learning tools ai to consumer grade large language models also ai isn t exactly apples to apples david g smith a german court has ruled in favour of a man suing google for invasion of privacy over aerial images of his property in google maps and earth without his consent petapixel trump suggested renaming the atlantic ocean to google ceo sundar pichai but pichai balked please don t ask us to do that engadget link categories gis mobile toponyms tags ai privacy trump a cassini exhibition in paris published on 16 october 2026 16 october 2026 by jonathan crowe an exhibition about the cassini map la carte de france de cassini une encyclopédie du territoire is now running at the musée des archives nationales in the hôtel de soubise in paris chef d œuvre cartographique du xviiie siècle la carte de france de cassini est la première carte de france levée géométriquement à l échelle d un pays entier document historique emblématique composé de 181 feuilles c est aussi un objet d art monumental de onze mètres de largeur sur douze mètres de hauteur s appuyant notamment sur un versement majeur de l ign aux archives nationales l exposition retrace l histoire de la carte sous un jour inédit en 2021 et 2025 l institut national de l information géographique et forestière ign a versé aux archives nationales le fonds des archives relatives à la carte de france de l académie plus connue sous le nom de carte de france de cassini ce fonds remarquable se compose des calculs des écrits des minutes mais aussi des cuivres et des tirages originaux relatant la fabrication et la vie de cette carte entre 1750 et les années 1950 un fonds dont le caractère exceptionnel permet de dévoiler aujourd hui des aspects méconnus d une œuvre à la portée universelle une œuvre conçue par quatre générations d astronomes et cartographes les cassini in french bien sûr opened on 14 october runs through 1 february 2027 free admission cartographie s numérique s link categories antique maps tags cassini exhibitions france paris a disgracefully unoriginal fantasy map published on 16 october 2026 16 october 2026 by jonathan crowe conservative commentator ross douthat has apparently written a young adult fantasy novel replete with the inevitable map and albert burneko is here to tell us that it s terrible for one thing it is disgracefully unoriginal he says pointing out all the ways it s derivative pull back and observe douthat s map more generally there is no sense of place in it its shape and features offer no suggestions about the societies they may have given rise to there are no intriguing geographic or geological details that make you want to read on to see what goes on there it tells no story it is not the least bit interesting on its own it is just a companion to a travel narrative to be sure burneko is doing something i went into in my 2017 piece the territory is not the map he s critiquing the fantasy geography not the cartography conflating the map and the thing mapped is not new in fantasy maps nor for that matter is having a map for the sake of having a map link categories maps and literature tags fantasy maps a taxonomy of maps in movies published on 16 october 2026 16 october 2026 by jonathan crowe vicky johnson dahl has dug up her 2016 nacis presentation on maps in the movies titled it s a map map map map world and resurrected it as a blog post she assigns movie maps to five categories maps the audience sees but the characters don t maps the characters use maps that drive the plot i e treasure maps threat maps think war games or bond villains and jokes this is the sort of taxonomy i find really useful having done something similar myself for maps in written science fiction link categories movies and television tracé de 1927 du conseil privé non définitif published on 8 october 2026 8 october 2026 by jonathan crowe we had a provincial election here in quebec earlier this week coverage of which served as a reminder that the quebec government officially does not recognize the province s border with labrador a border determined by a 1927 decision of the judicial committee of the privy council in london it s a long grievance nearly a century old now with periodic flare ups of passive aggressiveness but few real implications there s no real chance of redress and no one actually lives in the disputed area still the quebec government mandates among other things that all its maps show the quebec claim which follows the watershed line alongside the official border which is always de emphasized and labelled tracé de 1927 du conseil privé non définitif this includes official election maps which people notice each time there s a provincial election the boundaries of the electoral district of duplessis encompass the disputed region see this pdf map it s academic since no one lives there we re spared the problem of people who are eligible to vote in or are taxed by two different provinces some quebec separatists sorry sovereignists show maps of quebec that include all of labrador so that s the maximalist position link categories politics tags border disputes canada labrador quebec alabama now requires gulf of america published on 8 october 2026 8 october 2026 by jonathan crowe gulf of america is now state policy in alabama thanks to a law that took effect on october 1 state entities and employees in alabama are now required to refer to the gulf of mexico as the gulf of america updating maps documents and educational materials as required as inside higher ed reports this includes public schools and universities with a carve out when reasonable for historical purposes it also appears to include reporters at a university sponsored npr affiliate because free speech i guess link categories censorship toponyms tags alabama gulf of mexico a pop up staircase surrounded by maps published on 28 september 2026 28 september 2026 by jonathan crowe the entrance to the david rumsey map center at stanford is via a staircase whose walls are illustrated with maps from the center s collections to mark the center s 10th anniversary rj andrews and ray marshall engineered a pop up papercraft model of the stairwell the keepsake opens up to show every wall on every level produced in limited quantities and unfortunately not available for sale see rj andrews s post and ray marshall s web page for how they did it and images of the keepsake link categories art memorabilia tags libraries paper art rumsey stanford mapquest s moment published on 28 september 2026 28 september 2026 by jonathan crowe mapquest continues to ride a wave of positive publicity after their refusal to rename lake ontario they ve posted billboards in chicago and toronto with directions to the lake their ceo made a well publicized visit to the lake itself they have we re not changing the name merch at their store call it principled or opportunistic it can be both honestly but either way they re making the most of it they ve also posted their roadmap of upcoming features link categories mobile toponyms tags lake ontario mapquest simon ayrinhac s studies of tolkien s maps and geography plus a middle earth globe published on 25 september 2026 25 september 2026 by jonathan crowe columbus globes simon ayrinhac is a french physicist who studies the maps and geography of tolkien s middle earth i stumbled across his page of his talks and articles via the tolkien conference i posted about earlier this month the page also includes a couple of bibliographies that i will have to steal from in order to update my own reading list in french lots for me to go through amongst simon s articles is one exploring how tolkien s middle earth can be displayed as a globe occasioned by the release by columbus globes of middle earth globes in various sizes and levels of detail 12 26 30 and 40 cm all but the smallest illuminated 25 399 the problem which simon also notices is that the known parts of middle earth take up too much of the globe it s actually only a small part of the whole with the rest of the world only roughly sketched out also the legendarium of middle earth is such that it was only round after a specific catastrophic event and a lot of the geography did not survive it link categories maps and literature tags fantasy maps globes middle earth tolkien the united nations mercator and equal earth another follow up published on 25 september 2026 25 september 2026 by jonathan crowe commentary on map projections continues in the wake of the un resolution about replacing the mercator projection with equal earth there were two pieces in the guardian last week this one is less about projections but about why they matter not just in terms of diminishing africa but also in terms of exaggerating greenland would trump have been so obsessed with it if it if it wasn t 14 times too big on the mercator this piece interviews the three creators of the equal earth projection it s understandably been a busy time for them and provides a bit more background to those just tuning in my impression is that the last main redoubt of mercator is in web maps where the projection is not a problem unless you zoom out too much i ve spotted a couple of new tools to address that see ben joffe s interactive map and maptiler s demo both deal with distortion at the map s edges by allowing you to drag the map so that any degree of longitude can be at the centre and transitioning to mercator as you zoom in previously the un is voting on whether to phase out the mercator projection the united nations mercator and equal earth a follow up link categories cartography web mapping tags equal earth map projections mercator mapping tariffs published on 20 september 2026 20 september 2026 by jonathan crowe mappingtariffs org screenshot mapping tariffs visualizes the impact of u s tariffs on canadian businesses since may 2025 tara vinodrai and karen chapple have led a team of researchers at the school of cities to develop interactive mapping and visualization tools that measure and explore the potential impacts of tariffs on jobs and businesses across canadian cities and communities at the neighbourhood and city level our tools illustrate the highly localized and uneven potential impacts of u s tariffs reflecting canada s underlying urban regional and sectoral specializations ctv news coverage link categories economics tags canada tariffs trade georeferencing fire insurance maps published on 20 september 2026 20 september 2026 by jonathan crowe dan vanderkam over the past few months i ve been working on mapsnap a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps this post explains why these maps are interesting how mapsnap works and why this is worth doing tara calishain link categories antique maps tags fire insurance georeferencing sanborn the united nations mercator and equal earth a follow up published on 11 september 2026 11 september 2026 by jonathan crowe matthew edney s response to last week s un resolution on phasing out the mercator projection in favour of equal earth this event and the responses to it show that we are still being haunted by arno peters damnable arguments they were cursed when peters publicized them about fifty years ago and they seem doomed to torment us even now see also andré ourednik s take in french which points out the biases and editorial choices even in equal earth the transcript of the general assembly debate on the resolution shows that ukraine abstained from the vote because the equal earth map shows crimea as disputed territory which is a point about the default map not the projection and the united states felt the resolution trivialized the institution which the u s would never do and dismissed it as part of a radical ideological project update japan s mad about how equal earth depicts the kuril islands can no one understand the difference between a projection and the default map using it link categories cartography tags equal earth map projections mercator the first trilateration of the globe published on 10 september 2026 11 september 2026 by jonathan crowe j b crawford s long essay on geodesy looks at the challenge of synchronizing the datums created by the various national surveys giving the reader sufficient background technical information for understanding the culmination of those efforts the north atlantic tie by which the north american british and european datums nad27 osgb36 and ed50 were linked together and the eventual creation of wgs60 just in time for satellite observations to take over worth a read link categories surveying tags datum geodesy posts navigation older posts search for about the map room the map room is a blog about maps by jonathan crowe since 2003 he has covered everything from antique map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology more about the map room subscribe and follow email digest bluesky facebook mastodon rss feed support the map room the map room is now ad free thanks to the support of readers like you join them by becoming a member at patreon affiliate disclosure the map room participates in the amazon bookshop 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