Mapping the Northern Sky(maps.com)
32 points by tmseidman | 10 comments
Maps.com article featuring Florian Winkler's star map of the stars, Messier objects, and constellations of the Northern Hemisphere sky.
#cartography on Hacker News
14 stories tagged cartography, newest first.
Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)(publicdomainreview.org)
9 points by Thevet | 1 comments
A Public Domain Review collection page presenting the 1868 book Geographical Fun, which depicts European countries as humorous caricature figures shaped like their maps.
Marshall Islands Stick Chart(en.wikipedia.org)
31 points by Thevet | 4 comments
Wikipedia article on Marshall Islands stick charts, used by Marshallese navigators to represent ocean swell patterns and how islands disrupt them for canoe navigation.
Cartographers of North Korea (2019)(cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so)
306 points by edent | 63 comments
An interactive analysis by Wonyoung So of OpenStreetMap data for North Korea, examining who its contributors are and how and why they mapped the country.
Unruly Folded Sheets(literaryreview.co.uk)
7 points by Thevet | 0 comments
Literary Review piece by Simon Bradley reviewing Will Millard's book Mapping Britain, a history of Britain told through the Ordnance Survey archives.
What is the size of Yemen? (2024)(theborys.substack.com)
220 points by kspacewalk2 | 72 comments
A Substack post investigating why Yemen's commonly cited area of 555,000 sq km differs from map measurements, tracing a century-old misinformation.
Jerry's Map(jerrysmap.com)
548 points by turtleyacht | 59 comments
Page on Jerry Gretzinger's website describing Jerry's Map, an ever-growing hand-drawn map of an imaginary city begun in 1963.
Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)(eyeondesign.aiga.org)
333 points by mhb | 75 comments
AIGA Eye on Design article about Swiss cartographers secretly hiding small illustrations in Switzerland's official national maps for decades.
This map is not upside down(maps.com)
341 points by aagha | 489 comments
Maps.com article by Joshua Stevens about a south-up world map designed by cartographer Robert Simmon that challenges the north-up convention.
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History(oldmapsonline.org)
1187 points by agilek | 171 comments
Interactive historical map showing region borders over time with a year slider, plus sections for rulers, people, and battles.
Roman Roads (2017)(sashamaps.net)
460 points by gslin | 146 comments
A page showing the major roads of the ancient Roman Empire drawn in the style of a modern subway map, here as featured in an Open Culture article.
Fantasy Map Brushes(kmalexander.com)
417 points by starkparker | 41 comments
K. M. Alexander's #NoBadMaps project page offering brush sets and tools for creating historically styled fantasy maps.
There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org(en.osm.town)
396 points by gslin | 65 comments
Mastodon post from OpenStreetMap announcing the Tracestrack Topo map style on OpenStreetMap.org, a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap with more tag support and i18n.
Maps distort how we see the world(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
599 points by yarapavan | 291 comments
A Tomas Pueyo Uncharted Territories newsletter post presenting 30 maps showing how map projections distort perceived country sizes, especially near the equator.