tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2011-10-07://5 2012-05-23T21:14:01Z The Map Room ended in June 2011. These are blog posts about maps made since then. Movable Type Pro 5.04 45.60073876.494434 tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4555 2012-05-23T20:45:44Z 2012-05-23T21:14:01Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ When Rachel Hewitt's Map of a Nation was published in the U.K. in 2010, I despaired of ever being able to lay hands on a copy easily. A book documenting the first century or so of the history of...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4529 2012-05-12T13:46:00Z 2012-05-12T13:50:04Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ There are rumours that for iOS 6, the next version of the operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, Apple will replace Google Maps with an in-house mapping application with an impressive...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4527 2012-05-06T14:39:31Z 2012-05-06T14:53:17Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ A patch on a 16th-century map may suggest what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. The map in question is the 1585 Virginea Pars map by John White. Based on the patch, which hides a symbol...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4526 2012-05-04T18:06:44Z 2012-05-04T18:21:41Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ County-by-county life expectancy estimates released last month by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reveal a startling gap between the longest-lived and shortest-lived areas of the...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4500 2012-04-10T10:53:25Z 2012-04-10T10:55:12Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Calling it "the first entirely new globe of the lunar surface in more than 40 years," Sky and Telescope has announced a new Moon globe based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery. Replogle's Moon...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4498 2012-04-08T18:28:35Z 2012-04-08T18:32:34Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Alejandro Polanco Masa, whose map blog La Cartoteca is one of the finest on the subject in any language, has announced the availability of his speculative fiction novel El Viaje de Argos, in which...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4492 2012-04-04T16:55:05Z 2012-04-04T17:07:34Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ More information today on a book I'd heard was coming: The Lands of Ice and Fire, a definitive atlas of George R. R. Martin's fantasy world from A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones, et...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4487 2012-04-03T02:04:26Z 2012-04-03T02:12:49Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ An amazing visualization of near-term wind forecasts by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, based on data from the National Weather Service's National Weather Forecast Database. Looks gorgeous;...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4486 2012-04-03T01:52:00Z 2012-04-03T01:59:59Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ The ability to use other map styles with OpenStreetMap data is, I think, underexploited. I'm starting to hate the default Mapnik tiles. Stamen Design has released three different -- vividly different...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4483 2012-04-01T21:15:15Z 2012-04-01T21:25:05Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ You may have seen this already: a beautiful, painting-like visualization of the world's surface ocean currents between June 2005 and November 2007, which NASA posted last month. The visualization is...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4482 2012-04-01T20:46:59Z 2012-04-01T20:55:59Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ "In the 18th and 19th centuries, children were taught geography by making their own maps, usually copies of maps available to them in books and atlases at their schools or homes," says a David Rumsey...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4452 2012-03-20T14:04:54Z 2012-03-20T14:12:42Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ In my review of Paul Schenk's Atlas of the Galilean Satellites I noted that the maps of Jupiter's four largest moons were actually spacecraft imagery placed on a map projection; there were no...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4449 2012-03-13T12:15:14Z 2012-03-13T12:23:13Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Ars Technica calls Old Maps Online "the world's single largest online collection of historical maps" but that's not strictly the case. When I first read that I thought: what, bigger than Rumsey?...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4448 2012-03-12T14:37:31Z 2012-03-12T15:04:45Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Fantasy maps have a very specific style that is actually quite limiting. For an example of what would happen if all maps were subject to the same limitations as fantasy maps, have a look at what is...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.) tag:www.jonathancrowe.net,2012://5.4338 2012-03-06T01:19:36Z 2012-03-06T14:32:14Z Jonathan Crowe http://www.jonathancrowe.net/ Paul Schenk's Atlas of the Galilean Satellites (Cambridge University Press, 2010) collects all the imagery gathered by the Voyager and Galileo missions of the four major moons of Jupiter (Callisto,...<br/> <br/> (Click through to read the entire post.)