The Best Cartography Websites – The Map Room
Another site that I check out when I can is The Map Room. This is a fascinating blog about maps and anything to do with mapping. The author, Jonathan Crowe, has been blogging since 2003. His frequent posts cover an enormous range of topics, from basic mapping news, to map-related artwork, to satellite imagery and current events.
Jonathan is in tune with the fact that we are all pressed for time, and his pieces are generally short. He makes an immediate case for why you, the reader, may find the information presented useful or interesting. It’s a great place to find interesting book reviews, articles, websites, news and of course maps. Have a look!
Website link: http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/
Interesting Recent Posts:
WorldWide Telescope Reviews
Inuit Tactile Maps
More on the Festival of Maps
Google Maps API for Flash
_____________________________________
Categories Cool Ideas and Sites | Tags: Cool Cartography Sites
Leave a Reply
By submitting a comment here you grant Maponics Blog a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name/web site in attribution. Inappropriate or irrelevant comments will be removed at an admin's discretion.
Comments (2)
You can follow any follow up comments to this entry through the RSS feed.
Darrin May 22, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Yes, The Map Room is great. I especially like the fact that he talks about cartography – so much of the neo-geographers are all about the digital processing and information side. Important stuff, no doubt. But very few other blogs talk about the aesthetic side of mapping.
Jeff May 23, 2008 at 8:08 am
I agree. It was great to find someone blogging about the many aspects of mapping and not just the data, software, or cartographic process sides.