“Trying to define what a map is is pretty difficult,” says Hessler. And he would know. As a specialist in modern cartography and GIS at the Library of Congress, Hessler spends a lot of his ...

or new ways of interacting with old maps, there was much to cheer about in 2016. Cartography may be in the midst of a digital revolution, but if you think hand-drawn maps have no place in the ...

The University of Oregon's Murphy cites numerous examples where cartography is at the heart of ongoing political disputes. Maps published in Peru and Chile, for example, show different land and ...

Vopel, a German cartographer, left behind no explanation of why he added these things to his map, but he may have been motivated by what art historians call horror vacui, the artist’s fear of ...