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Tag Archives: Cartography
Fun and Games with Art and Maps
Backdrop Backdrop is a map based game which is somewhat similar to the very popular GeoGuessr game. However in Backdrop instead of Google Maps Street View images you have to identify the locations depicted in famous paintings by some of history’s … Continue reading
Conflict Cartography
I was recently bemoaning the fact that the main stream media in the United States can’t seem to focus on more than two serious conflicts at the same time, and even then, the coverage is sorely lacking. But I just … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Europe, History, Maps, Middle East, Tech, USA
Tagged Cartography, Gaza, Israel, Ukraine
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Maps, Art and AI
The very clever guys behind the website Brilliant Maps have utilized artificial intelligence programming to conjure up some quite interesting maps based on the painting styles of some great artists. You can see the results on their website and on YouTube in … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Film, Maps
Tagged AI, Cartography, Gustav Klimt, MidJourney, Painting
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Strip Atlas
British cartographer John Ogilby created an amazing project in 1675: a road atlas of 17th-century Britain, featuring strip maps of most of the major routes in England and Wales. He wrote to Charles II: I have Attempted to Improve Our … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Maps
Tagged Britain, Cartography, mapmaking, Road atlas, Wales
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Around the World by Railway
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages know that the entire crew (me) here at TBTP World HQ have an enduring interest in maps and train travel. So, when I stumbled upon this ambitious project I was intrigued. Oregon-based geographer … Continue reading
Maps: A Stranger Quest
Regular visitors to TBTP are well aware of my life-long fascination with maps, globes, and all things cartographic. So it won’t be surprising to find that I am excited to learn that Italian filmmaker Andrea Gatopoulos has made a documentary … Continue reading
Neighborly
Can you name the eight countries which border Turkey ? If you can then you should head straight over to Neighborle. Each day on Neighborle you are shown a different country on an interactive map. Your daily challenge is to … Continue reading
Streets of Europe
During my internet wanders, I stumbled upon a mesmerizing series of data visualization videos on the streets of European capitals. The videos were created by Anders Sundell who teaches data visualization at the University of Gothenberg. Here’s how he describes … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Europe, Maps, Tech, Tourism
Tagged Berlin, Cartography, Data Visualization, Madrid, Mapping, Paris, Rome
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More Bookstore Mapping
Indie bookstores in Montana have collaborated to develop the first-ever Montana Bookstore Trail. The mapping project was coordinated by Rachel Elliott-Burg, owner of Reading Leaves in Townsend, and designed with Elk River Books in Livingston, the map features 21 independent bookstores across the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Maps, Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookselling, Cartography, Montana
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Living in the Real World
Most reasonably educated adults—other than flatearth nincompoops—are well aware that the way we map our planet distorts the actual size of countries and continents. For centuries, we have generally ignored the wildly misleading maps that are used in most publications. … Continue reading
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