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Tag Archives: Maps
Creation Myth
Origin Myth Map is an interactive world map of the stories cultures have told about where the universe, Earth, and humanity came from. This is a fascination tool to explore the narratives that formed many of the world’s cultures and … Continue reading
Family Business
I have often been intrigued by stories about the oldest business, or restaurant, or hotel in a place that I’ve visited, and in fact have been in some that claimed the title. So, I fell down the rabbit hole of … Continue reading
Fall into Autumn
SmokyMountains.com has been producing its fall foliage maps for more than a decade. The Smoky Mountains 2026 Fall Foliage Prediction Map has now been released to visualize this year’s expected progression of fall foliage across the contiguous US. Rather than simply highlighting where autumn is happening … Continue reading
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week”
Here is a great read by BBC on Finland’s libraries where you can borrow everything from sewing machines to tennis rackets to podcast studios. 55% of Finns visit at least once a month and libraries are legally required to promote democracy. They … Continue reading
Sunday, Someday ?
🐱 Artful Cats: This collection of cat-inspired art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian is a truly delightful set to browse through. Paintings, sketches, ceramics, centuries of artists who just couldn’t resist drawing cats. You could easily lose an hour in here. … Continue reading
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It’s Only A Paper Moon or Globe
I have always been fascinated by globes. When I was a wee lad I had a globe/lamp combo on my nightstand and I would spin the globe and dream of breaking out. I even made my own paper mache globe … Continue reading
More Stuff You Want To See ?
Peter Guillam and his daughter have used the Claude LLM to create a tool for mapping characters’ journeys in novels, PlotLines. He writes about the process here. His other tools include a Hansard search and a map of redundant churches. “You’d see massive glacier … Continue reading
Exonym Atlas
An exonym is a place name used by outsiders—for example, English speakers using Germany for Deutschland. The Exonym Atlas explores how other languages name countries and groups those names by usage. Fascinating to see the derivations of names, which don’t always follow language families: for … Continue reading
Emptying Europe
Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, is an excellent example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuanced geographic story. In this case, the story is one of Europe’s rural depopulation and how … Continue reading
London in the 18th Century
I never tire of reading about Britain’s greatest city. London in the 18th Century by Wallace Crawford Snowden, revised and edited by Marie Clayton, offers a full reproduction of pioneering cartographer John Rocque’s 1746 An Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster which provided … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 