The Olympic Games around World War II
No Olympic Summer Games this year. The current COVID-19 pandemic forced the International Olympic Committee to postpone the planned 2020...
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Jun 13, 20206 min read
Making land from water: Dutch land reclamation on maps
It is a strange sight on the WHO COVID-19 map: A non-existing landmass in the IJsselmeer. But how did it get there?
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May 20, 20206 min read
Azimuthal projections: World Peace, Flat-Earthers and Missile Range Maps
An azimuthal projection is a map projection where the spherical globe grid is projected onto a flat plane. This results in attractive maps
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Mar 20, 20204 min read
It's all about perspective
Many of us are now experiencing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thoughts evoked by three maps.
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Mar 18, 20203 min read
Apollo 11 Earth Orbit Map
This map was released in June 1969 by NASA and shows the trajectories followed on the during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
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Mar 14, 20203 min read
Quarantine and Isolation
Quarantaine: separating people exposed to an infectious disease to see if they become sick. An old but proven method: let's visit Wieringen
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Mar 8, 20203 min read
Mary Ronin - A celebration of diversity
In the golden days of cartography, women played an important, but usually little noticed role: They etched and colored maps, that were...
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Mar 5, 20205 min read
Mapping disease outbreaks
The world has been confronted with the outbreak of COVID-19. Maps show the spread of the outbreak, as Snow's Cholera Map did in 1855
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Jan 30, 20202 min read
Online cartographic resources
There are many online resources for historical cartography. I will highlight some outstanding free resources.
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Jan 18, 20202 min read
A note on condition
Every collector would prefer that the objects they collect are in an immaculate condition. For a map collector that usually includes the...
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